Can't feel good to be a dispensary owner this morning...

[davo420]

These bastards are all over the place.

I know the idiot in Highlands Ranch probably deserved to get busted but look at these comments from the DEA...



A memo in October from Deputy U.S. Attorney General David Ogden said federal agents should not target people in "clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state laws providing for the medical use of marijuana." The memo led many in Colorado's medical-marijuana community to believe that federal agents would no longer raid medical-marijuana dispensaries or growers.

But Sweetin said the memo does nothing to change federal law, which makes marijuana illegal, and instead mostly addresses treatment of medical-marijuana patients and small-scale growers.

"Prosecution of commercial enterprises that unlawfully market and sell marijuana for profit continues to be an enforcement priority of the department," the memo states.

Guidelines included in the memo to distinguish between lawful medical-marijuana operations and unlawful ones include whether the operations produce more plants or generate more money than state laws intend. Sweetin said those guidelines put much of Colorado's medical-marijuana industry in the crosshairs and that he has been gathering information on dispensary owners and their operations for months.

"Technically, every dispensary in the state is in blatant violation of federal law," he said. "The time is coming when we go into a dispensary, we find out what their profit is, we seize the building and we arrest everybody. They're violating federal law; they're at risk of arrest and imprisonment."

Read more: Owner who bragged of large medical-pot operation jailed in DEA raid - The Denver Post (http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14393797#ixzz0fQhvYZkb)


I think this could be considered fear mongering.

[copobo]

that's how it works. call the white house!

[palerider7777]

that's how it works. call the white house!

lmao why so they can hand over your info back to the dea so they can keep tabs on you? lmao there all in on it.at the start of all this i often wondered if this was a trap to pull all of the growers out of the wood works for all to see? food for thought.

[JasonLauve]

The February 12 medical marijuana raid is reported in todayâ??s Denver Post.
Owner who bragged of large medical-pot operation jailed in DEA raid - The Denver Post (http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14393797).

Rogue DEA agent Jeffrey Sweetin is quoted in the newspaper as opining â??Itâ??s not medicine.â?� Sweetin probably is not trained or educated as a physician, and his opinion is directly contrary to the will of Coloradoâ??s citizens, a majority of whom decided in 2000 that marijuana is, in fact, medicine. Sweetin further comments in the article:
â??Weâ??re still going to continue to investigate and arrest people. â?¦
Technically, every dispensary in the state is in blatant violation of
federal law,â?� he said. â??The time is coming when we go into a
dispensary, we find out what their profit is, we seize the building and
we arrest everybody. Theyâ??re violating federal law; theyâ??re at risk
of arrest and imprisonment.â?�

Sweetinâ??s comments confirm that the individual involved was in
compliance with the law.

[copobo]

doesn't this all seem to be a natural part of this process? pot enforcement $$ is a huge part of the DEA budget. It pays salaries.

Likewise, the LEO interest in restrictive legislation, getting rid of dispensaries forces a black / grey market, which is something they can use to justify their budgets.

We should enact legislation that diverts all of the LEO MJ enforcement money into LEO pensions or benefits. Something they can personally benefit from. Place the greed where it needs to be to benefit our community, because those dollars are lose / lose now.

[palerider7777]

doesn't this all seem to be a natural part of this process? pot enforcement $$ is a huge part of the DEA budget. It pays salaries.

Likewise, the LEO interest in restrictive legislation, getting rid of dispensaries forces a black / grey market, which is something they can use to justify their budgets.

We should enact legislation that diverts all of the LEO MJ enforcement money into LEO pensions or benefits. Something they can personally benefit from. Place the greed where it needs to be to benefit our community, because those dollars are lose / lose now.
i don't think that would stop them they are power hungry and they love control on top of all the money they steal..as long as it's just all hot air on the movements part nothing will change but only get worse for us.