Feds Clamp Down On Medical Marijuana Shops

Friends of Ours ^ | 01/13/12 | Friends of Ours

[AtlasStalled]

The feds continue to target medical marijuana dispensaries which otherwise are operating in accordance with state law.

In Colorado federal prosecutors gave 23 dispensaries which are operating within 1,000 feet of a school 45 days to shut down or face criminal prosecution as reported by John Ingold for The Denver Post.

They issued an identical ultimatum to medical marijuana dispensaries in California last October.

The threats are not idle.

The feds yesterday filed suit "to seize the building of a Sacramento dispensary, charging the marijuana store violated federal laws against drug transactions near schools" as reported by Peter Hecht for The Sacramento Bee, and on Wednesday DEA agents raided three dispensaries in San Diego as reported by Tony Shin for NBC: "landlords who rent to pot shops were warned to evict their tenants or face prosecution and lose their property."

[TigersEye]

I don’t think I have a dog in this fight, but maybe I’m just not prescient enough. I’m for States Rights.

I humbly submit that you do have a dog in this fight and you just named it.

Amendment X

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

[mamelukesabre]

Won’t work. It’ll just be you, me, and a few dozen others against the local government, the state government, the feds, and the media. It would be like a pack of chihuahuas going after a pride of lions with a horde of fanatical lion worshipers backing up the lions.

[TigersEye]

There is no such thing as medical grade marijuana. ... And I’m tired of the liars who say otherwise.

Who, other than you, has used the phrase "medical grade marijuana?"

[Minn]

There is no such thing as medical grade marijuana. The stuff people grow in the federal forests or in their own back yards or find in the desert, are the same thing. And I’m tired of the liars who say otherwise.

Who are these liars, and why are you so emotional about semantics? Medical grade marijuana. Killer bud. Who claims or cares about a distinction?

[worst-case scenario]

If that cigarette has a filter (which it looks like it does), then it ain’t no joint - just a real ‘70s attitude.