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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: thundley4 on October 06, 2011, 05:29:23 PM
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-06-11 05:57 PM
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Obama administration orders California medical marijuana dispensaries to shut down in 45 days!
Calif. pot dispensaries told by feds to shut down
U.S. prosecutors send letters even though state law allows
By LISA LEFF
October 6, 2011
Federal prosecutors have launched a crackdown on pot dispensaries in California, warning the stores that they must shut down in 45 days or face criminal charges and confiscation of their property even if they are operating legally under the state's 15-year-old medical marijuana law.
In an escalation of the ongoing conflict between the U.S. government and the nation's burgeoning medical marijuana industry, California's s four U.S. attorneys sent letters Wednesday and Thursday notifying at least 16 pot shops or their landlords that they are violating federal drug laws, even though medical marijuana is legal in California. The attorneys are scheduled to announce their coordinated crackdown at a Friday news conference.
Their offices refused to confirm the closure orders. The Associated Press obtained copies of the letters that a prosecutor sent to 12 San Diego dispensaries. They state that federal law "takes precedence over state law and applies regardless of the particular uses for which a dispensary is selling and distributing marijuana."
The move comes a little more than two months after the Obama administration toughened its stand on medical marijuana following a two-year period during which federal officials had indicated they would not move aggressively against dispensaries in compliance with laws in the 16 states where pot is legal for people with doctors' recommendations.
Read the full article at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44806723/ns/us_news-crime_a...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2070166
It's about time. No, medical marijuana was ever legal in any state. It always was a violation of federal law, states only passed laws saying that they would not prosecute.
This should should have been done before the DOJ went after states for their new immigration laws.
TheWraith (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-06-11 06:04 PM
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4. Curiosity: would you support a Republican administration deciding not to prosecute, say, Enron?
Or how about choosing not to prosecute somebody who raids the pension fund? Or not arresting someone trafficking arms overseas?
If not, then why do you believe that it's suddenly okay to selectively enforce only the laws some people approve of when it's a Democrat in the White House? "Rule of law" goes both ways.
Freeper troll.
Pitr (27 posts) Thu Oct-06-11 06:17 PM
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9. Fine, Obama, kiss California's 54 electoral votes goodbye.
If that's what you want - to shut down dispensaries that helps people the MOST.
I'm sure all the Republicans are lining up to vote for you.
I think Obama is trying to best Clinton in the title of "Best Republican Democrat President"
I'm looking for alternatives and wishing for a real challenger to Obama.
You over estimate the number of drug users that vote in California.
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Maybe I am a bit tin foilish on this, but I can't help but wonder if a sudden interest in busting these dopeheads is a distraction that Holder needs from his little perjury problem.
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Maybe I am a bit tin foilish on this, but I can't help but wonder if a sudden interest in busting these dopeheads is a distraction that Holder needs from his little perjury problem.
Probably, but I don't it will help. Most right wing blogs will give this a thumbs up and quickly get back to Gun Runner.
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Maybe I am a bit tin foilish on this, but I can't help but wonder if a sudden interest in busting these dopeheads is a distraction that Holder needs from his little perjury problem.
I am thinking that Obama is trying to regain the Independent vote. His administration needs to appear to be following the rule of law.
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Obama can do this because it makes him look law and order to the centrists,
and for the potheads...well they aren't really all that motivated to vote anyways.
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What is that whistling sound? Couldn't be artillery so it must be a tombstone raining down from on high with DUmmie Wraith troll's name on it. ::)
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But...but...but I need my medicine....without it I might sober up .... and a dose of reality might kill me[DUmmie/mode]
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I don't think there's anything the jug-eared muslim can do that would cause him to lose California.
Too many nuts. It's a different country.