It seems the crackdown the Feds are doing on medical marijuana dispensaries is none too popular among Democrat voters.
Medical marijuana advocates have reacted angrily to reports of the Obama administration threatening dispensaries, including some in the Bay Area. California voters passed a medical marijuana law in 1996, and many people use the drug to help ease pain related to HIV and AIDS and other illnesses.
But in recent weeks, federal prosecutors have announced broad prosecutions against medical marijuana dispensaries across California, reportedly threatening landlords with eviction, property seizures, and imprisonment.
That sort of action in a state where medical marijuana is legal is leading even California politicians to protest.
Assemblyman Tom Ammiano and state Senator Mark Leno, both out gay Democrats from San Francisco, held a press conference Wednesday, October 19, to call for an end to the federal crackdown.
In a recent statement, Ammiano said the Department of Justice’s stance means “a tragic return to failed policies that will cost the state millions in tax revenue and harm countless lives.”
He continued, “Whatever happened to the promises [Obama] made on the campaign trail to not prosecute medical marijuana or the 2009 DOJ memo saying that states with medical marijuana laws would not be prosecuted? Change we can believe in? Instead we get more of the same.
It is too bad most Republican politicians are too stupid to capitalize on this discontent. Well not too stupid in their minds. Cracking down on people using the wrong kind of plants for medicine make perfect sense if it keeps even one person from abusing pot. Especially if the pain, suffering, and premature deaths caused by the denial of medicine are not assigned to their actions. It is how politicians traditionally get away with murder.
H/T Drug Policy Forum of Texas
Cross Posted at Power and Control
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3 responses to “Whatever Happened To The Promises?”
Nothing to add except that people who enforce immoral laws are immoral themsevles. The US attorneys in California are evil men and women who freely choose to act as tyrants toward their fellow citizens.
Simon, I understand where you’re coming from. The problem is, you haven’t seen the treasonous drug culture first-hand, at least not since the time of Jimi Hendrix. I have.
Imagine living your life in a constant state of persecution. Imagine seeing in everyone’s eyes the hatred because you aren’t “hip” like they are. Imagine serving your country and then being told afterward that, ha ha ha, veterans aren’t cool any more and draft dodgers are. Imagine people constantly whispering about you, “He’s a gun owner, which means he’s got a small penis and therefore it’s OK to persecute him.” Imagine, having served in the military, the same people who during Clinton’s genocidal Communist regime said you weren’t cool because you were a veteran, then turning around afterward and saying “All Republicans are chickenhawks who dodged the draft and Clinton, Harry Reid, and Lawrence O’Donnell are war heroes.
IN FACT, CLINTON, REID, AND O’DONNELL ARE DRAFT DODGERS!!!
This cannot be said enough!!!
CLINTON, REID, AND O’DONNELL ARE DRAFT DODGERS!!!
CLINTON, REID, AND O’DONNELL ARE DRAFT DODGERS!!!
CLINTON, REID, AND O’DONNELL ARE DRAFT DODGERS!!!
And yet, I, who served my country, am denied the right to get married and have children, because the single women out there are controlled by the stoner culture of the Democrat Party, who veto any chance I might ever have with a woman.
I served my country, unlike the DRAFT-DODGERS CLINTON, REID, AND O’DONNELL, yet thanks to the LSD-bathed serpent tongues of the stoner far left, I am forever banned from the love of a woman.
Do you think I want to give even MORE power to these tyrants????
If the government did not have the power to prosecute prohibition the tyrants would have less power.
I hate to tell you this but you are the one who favors giving tyrants power.
What is next? Prohibition of trans-fats? Tobacco smoking? What prohibitions would you like? It appears nothing is off the table. So pick a few. Twenty to fifty seems like a good number until Americans get more used to the idea.
Every prohibition must be policed. And guess who controls the police? Clue: it ain’t you.
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Dude. Get your alpha on. No one is keeping you from women but you.
BTW what those jerks said about vets never bothered me. It didn’t make me like them either. But it never shook me because I like myself.