Posted on 02/09/2013 10:31:11 AM PST by Rusty0604
In 2009, Deputy Attorney General David Ogden, presumably speaking on behalf of the newly inaugurated Barack Obama, issued the so-called Ogden memo, instructing federal prosecutors to not target medical-marijuana patients..... "Do you intend to carry this all the way through forfeiture?" Guilford asked U.S. Attorney Greg Parham. "Yes, absolutely, your honor," Parham responded. "The only evidence in this case is a $37 purchase of medical marijuana and an anonymous comment on a website that anybody could have written," Pappas says. "For this, they want to take a $1.5 million building."
(Excerpt) Read more at ocweekly.com ...
The “War on Drugs’’ is all about the money. Follow the money. The good guys, the bad guys, ain’t a dimes difference between the two. It’s all about the money.
And people wonder why i eant to end the WOD.
And people wonder why I want to end the WOD.
I am against the legalization of pot. That said, I don’t support this behavior.
Our government is making very odd noises about pot legality. The Feds say it’s illegal, but then they don’t enforce, but then they do, then they give people time, then they negotiate, they makes statements like the one listed above about not seizing, then they do, and the states pass various laws, and the Feds say they won’t respect them, but people are smoking openly at concerts and parties and bus stops and no one seems to do anything.
A law must be clear and unambiguous, or it is not just.
crony cannabisism!
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