In 2008 then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama was asked point black whether he would stop the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency’s senseless raids on medical marijuana facilities.
“I would because I think our federal agents have better things to do, like catching criminals and preventing terrorism,” Obama said at the time.
Amen to that, right?
Unfortunately, like most of the words that escape Obama’s mouth – his promise about medical marijuana turned out to be utter and complete horse crap.
Obama hasn’t stopped medical marijuana raids – he has dramatically ramped them up. According to Reason.org, his administration is “averaging 36 medical marijuana prosecutions a year, compared to 20 a year under his predecessor.”
Not only that, Obama is deliberately targeting medical marijuana growers who are in compliance with state law – even though he vowed in 2008 “I’m not going to be using Justice Department resources to try and circumvent state laws on this issue.”
Hmmmm …
This week federal authorities launched a fresh round of raids on medical marijuana facilities in Colorado – where voters recently approved marijuana legalization laws (but where politicians are trying to tax the product to death). The raids – carried out in Boulder and Denver – hit at least ten locations.
No arrests were made (at least not yet) although tons of product was taken and significant property damage done.
Oh and according to the Associated Press the Justice Department says ” the probable-cause documents that outline the reasons for the raids are sealed.”
Great …
“We see this again and again, raids where they smash windows, take anything of value, and nine times out of 10 there’s never any charges that follow,” a Colorado pot lobbyist told the AP. “These raids were done during business hours in full daylight. Why do they bust windows when they could just walk through the door?”
Easy: A lot of these cops are adrenaline junkies who love no-knock raids … no matter the consequences.
Insanity …
Marijuana and other drugs should be legalized and taxed just like any other product, with impairment laws for public intoxication or driving under the influence enforced the same as for alcohol.
Seriously … this is getting ridiculous. Not to mention expensive (America has blown more than $1 trillion over the last four decades on its failed “War on Drugs”).
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“No arrests were made (at least not yet) although tons of product was taken”
Hey Bobby, Jonas
Yea, White House Jonas
If you are not busy this weekend, drop by the back gate after 10
Yep, another party
POTUS just got a big shipment from Denver and all of it has to go up in smoke before Monday morning
+2 OWB. Nicely done
“Medical”? Bullshit.
It doesn’t matter. Colorado legalized marijuana, medical and otherwise, and our federal government has no respect for its state laws.
Cannabis Cures Cancer .
Smoking pot/cigarettes causes cancer.
Then eat it Dumb Ass!
I don’t buy for one second that you haven’t smoked pot illegally.
You got that right.I was first arrested in 1970,and I’m all for legalization.The first time I was busted,the narc had provided all the dope,and the charges were dropped(entrapment).He was the biggest cocaine addict I’ve ever met,and coke ruined what had once been harmless fun.That’s when I quit all that shit.
For the sake of empathy and compassion, get to know cannabis patients with terminal illness. Once held the exact same wrong view as you. I am now utterly convinced in the medicinal value for suffering patients, from up close.
Delta 9
9″? Bull***t.
So says the idiot who doesn’t need it to live. I love all the fake doctors running around giving medical advice. The “duhhh I once smoked pot in high school so I know it isn’t real medicine” brigade of retards, hilarious….
Seems all your posts are about pot.I’m not a doctor,but my BF is.Two friends recently died of lung cancer.They didn’t need or want anymore pot.They got what they needed:Morphine.
I do realize that cannabis has tar the same as tobacco, but show me one person that got lung cancer from cannabis. You can’t–the federal government tried. You’d have to smoke about the same amount of cannabis as you would cigarettes (like a pack a day) to develop cancer from the tar, and that’s the beauty of cannabis…two or three joints a day are all one needs. And also, try to find a single death ever caused by cannabis consumption–you won’t. Look it up if you don’t believe me.
Oh, and as a pain management patient for several years, who has been on morphine, oxy, dilaudid, opana, etc. I can personally tell you that not only does cannabis work wayyyy better for pain relief, but it’s also far more effective in smaller doses and isn’t destroying my internal organs like the pills are.
That’s not what my friends told me before they died,although I do believe you’re really into opiates.
Neither, Morphine,Heroin or Methadone will have much affect on your internal organs,but smoking pot will ruin your lungs.
Most scientific studies agree,one joint is,at least,the equivalent to 5 cigarettes.
Wanna talk to my friend,Dr Herbert Kleber?
Why would I want to talk to him? Did you google “deaths caused by cannabis”? I bet you didn’t find anything, did ya? And besides, I primarily eat cannabis, so there isn’t any smoke. Face it, there’s nothing you can come up with to prove me and my pain doc wrong…and I know you’re one of those stubborn, self-righteous folks that think they’re right on everything…so I’m done with ya.
“We see this again and again, raids where they smash windows, take anything of value, and nine times out of 10 there’s never any charges that follow,” a Colorado pot lobbyist told the AP. “These raids were done during business hours in full daylight. Why do they bust windows when they could just walk through the door”.
Many years ago the bartender (not the owner) of a North Charleston Bar had a $5 and a$20 dollar a square Super Bowl pool going. TBG doesn’t recall the particular agency…but they busted in the place one night wearing ninja suits etc..because of A SUPER BOWL POOL!
Such a delicious irony that our former pot & coke smoking President who taught Constitutional law uses Federal shock troops to ruin the lives of others doing the same as he did.
I’ll bet you can’t find such a hypocrisy in Putin.
No biggie. It was just a supply run. Relax
just think if a pube were president
Open your eyes. Doh!
Legalize it, tax it, it’s only dope and they call it dope for a reason.
same reason they call you idcydm ‘spose
To use your own words, “troll much”.
dang. ya got me! color me a dope!
What happened Doc O’Zee your name and avatar changed and you gave yourself an up.
pilot error?
“assumptions and presumptions” have led “WE, the sheeple” into believing that the federal government has jurisdictional authority to arrest, prosecute, convict, and punish any person at random or targeted by the DEA for conduct alleged, admitted, or found, to be; “[i]n violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 841(a)(1)”! Well, they don’t! Without any conclusions of law by me, and supported SOLELY by the statute themselves, I am able to prove to any guru of Constitution Law that the Ninety-First Congress prescribed NO PUNISHMENT for any person NOT REGISTERED by the Attorney General for federal jurisdiction to be federally regulated in the closed commercial system of controlled substances and I can prove it! Wanna bet?
Cannabis should never have been banned in the first place. Just look at how much of a mess people have to deal with in sorting it all out now that we know cannabis prohibition was a disastrous policy and one of the biggest failures of the last 60 years.
Prohibition is a crime against humanity.
“A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.”
—George Washington
It’s the “Chicago Way.” Most transparent Administration…BULLSHIT!
Point black!
Sites like this do such a horrible disservice to the actual legitimate attempts to change marijuana law. So much subjective distortion here that even a lifelong pot smoker and decriminalization advocate like myself feels compelled to ridicule this horseshit. Keep feeding the lunatics, fitnews (just read the comments here), and assisting the forces of hatred and polarization. That will definitely help!
Dear Dicknose
Planned to spend all of my time this fine holiday day doing nothing but drinking, eating, drinking, eating, drinking, drinking, drinking—get the drift yet
However when one opens his emails and reads that he is labeled as a hateful, polarizing, full of horseshit lunatic then such cannot be left to wither and die on the vine
I am not a lunatic, my mother had me tested when I was 5
Wish you a nice Turkey Day, keep toking and if you think your approach will do more to decriminalize pot than mine—- well keep on sucking cockroach dick and enjoy
Thank you for validating my comment so vividly.
It was the least I could do
So if you smoked it back in high school and you don’t now, it only proves there is no addiction with pot. How many people smoked cigarettes in high school and quit? My guess is a very small number.
Why does anyone expect Obama to be truthful about anything. His road to the white house was built on misdirection, misinformation and untruths.