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Feds raid downtown Oakland pot university
SFGate.com ^ | 4/2/12 | Henry K. Lee

Posted on 04/02/2012 9:24:07 AM PDT by GSWarrior

Federal agents swooped in Monday morning to search Oakland's Oaksterdam University in Oakland, the state's first cannabis industry training school.

Agents with the U.S. Marshals Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Internal Revenue Service's criminal investigation division are searching the university at the corner of 16th Street and Broadway, in the heart of the city's widely recognized downtown cannabis-oriented district, authorities said.

The federal agencies are conducting a joint investigation, she said.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cannabis; doj; drugs; drugwar; marijuana; pot; warondrugs; wod; wodlist; wosd
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To: GeronL

Is your position that as long as pot is illegal then the federal government’s war on marijuana is justified and desirable?


21 posted on 04/02/2012 10:20:59 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: GSWarrior

My position is that pot should stay illegal.


22 posted on 04/02/2012 10:24:03 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: GeronL

I am here to respect yours and others positions.


23 posted on 04/02/2012 10:26:40 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: GlockThe Vote

LOL. This war on pot is nothing but another tyrannical scam by the govt.

I have never smoked pot never done illegal drugs - but the war on drugs is a failure and a scam, just like 99% of the govt.


YOU ARE RIGHT, i have never done those things either but i think i would trust pot users more than i would the organized crime units in our Government.


24 posted on 04/02/2012 11:01:44 AM PDT by ravenwolf (reIf you believe that Nero was the anti-Christ, and among othJust a bit of the long list of proofsre)
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To: GeronL
My position is that pot should stay illegal.

The laws against pot are working about as well as the laws against alcohol did - both in their failure to curb the proscribed behaviors and their channeling hyperinflated profits into criminal hands.

25 posted on 04/02/2012 11:08:23 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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To: GSWarrior
"Federal officials say they are concerned about dispensaries that are getting too big or too close to parks or schools."

'It's for the children' - the big-government mantra. Shouldn't California decide for itself how big is "too big" and how close is "too close to parks or schools"?

26 posted on 04/02/2012 11:14:57 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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To: JustSayNoToNannies
The laws against pot are working about as well as the laws against alcohol did

You can say the same thing about any criminal activity. Legalizing crime does not make it go away. Should we legalize (murder, rape, incest) everything on the idea that it won't go away anyway?

27 posted on 04/02/2012 12:52:04 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: GeronL
The laws against pot are working about as well as the laws against alcohol did.

You can say the same thing about any criminal activity.

No you can't. According to the FBI, two out of three murder cases are cleared; in contrast, the number for drug sales is assuredly no more than two out of three-hundred.

28 posted on 04/02/2012 1:13:11 PM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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