Raids on Medical Marijuana Will End!!!!!!!!!!!

Raids on Medical Marijuana Will End

By Gene Silver
NBCLosAngeles.com
updated 1 hour, 36 minutes ago

Medical marijuana advocates were celebrating Thursday night.

The U.S. Attorney General has announced plans to end raids on medical marijuana dispensaries that are legal under state law.

Newly installed U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder declared he would stop the practice established by the Bush administration of raiding legally licensed medical marijuana dispensaries.

The Drug Enforcement Agency will now cease the raids that have continued, according to reports, even after Bush left office.

Holder said Obama's campaign promise to stop the raids is "now American policy."


I'm shocked I didn't see anyone post this?!?!?! That's great!

Thanks Obama!

Nice find, but, it already has been posted and discussed.
It's amazing to see that that cannabis is gradually reaching it's time to be legalized for all of it's benefits and opportunities.
Keep an eye out brotha!






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Is Now American Policy
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Note: This doesn't mean that there will be no more raids on medical marijuana dispensaries at all. Certainly, the State of California could conduct a raid on a dispensary that it claimed was violating state law (and any resulting cases would likely be tried in state court where you could mention state medical marijuana law).

Also, theoretically, the State of California, believing that a dispensary was violating state law, could ask for help from the DEA, but I would imagine Holder would find that to be politically unpleasant and would ask why the state is incapable of doing it themselves.

What does seem clear from Holder's statement is that there will be no more DEA raids of dispensaries that are operating legally under state law, but not under federal law. This should also mean no more Charlie Lynch trials. I hope the judge sentencing Lynch takes that important point into account.

Brief History: Of course, individual states passed their own laws. But nationally, it was a process starting with the Harrison Act in 1914, then the Marijuana Tax Act in 1937, the Food, Drug and Cosmetic act in 1938, the Narcotics Control Act in 1956, and then the big one - the 1970 Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act, which included the Controlled Substances Act which classified drugs at the federal level. - Guither

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Will Legalizing Pot Save California from its Cash Crunch?
California state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) has announced the introduction of legislation to tax and regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcoholic beverages. The bill, the first of its kind ever introduced in California, would create a regulatory structure similar to that used for beer, wine, and liquor, permitting taxed sales to adults while barring sales to or possession by those under 21.

California Legislator Sees Benefit in Legalizing Pot
The Wall Street Journal: "SAN FRANCISCO
A state legislator proposed legalizing the sale of marijuana in California, saying the plan would generate more than $1 billion annually for the cash-strapped state."

Make Calvina Fay cry
Go to Taxing pot could become a political toking point...

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Marijuana Legalization - no longer a pipe dream?

From Semana.Com: Decriminalize?

A revenue and legalization lesson from FDR
Reuters News Service

"It wonâ??t solve all of the U.S.â??s problems and lord knows will cause some new ones, but the money is undeniably big enough to make a dent.

After all, it certainly helped Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who legalized alcohol in 1933 in the midst of the Depression and after more than a decade of prohibition, thus bringing a half a billion in 1933 dollars into public coffers in the form of tax revenue. By 1936, alcohol taxes were 13 percent of Federal revenue."

I said, my! my! my! like a spider to a fly
Jump right ahead in my web! - Jagger

Oakland Pot Dispensary Raided, Guns Seized
US CA: Lee, Henry K. San Francisco Chronicle 25 Feb 2009

The cafe was selling marijuana to people without the required documentation...

Ve Vant to zee yer papers!

Note. Compassionate Use Act not the MMJ Act

HS 11362.5. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Compassionate Use Act of 1996.

* has been recommended by a physician

* person's health would benefit

* or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief.

* no physician in this state shall be punished,

* Illegal possession and cultivation of marijuana,
shall not apply to a patient, or to a patient's primary caregiver

* upon the written or oral recommendation or approval of a physician

* The department shall establish and maintain a voluntary program for the issuance of identification cards to qualified patients who satisfy the requirements of this article and voluntarily apply to the identification card program.

* "Qualified patient" means a person who is entitled to the protections of Section 11362.5, but who does not have an identification card issued pursuant to this article.

* It shall not be necessary for a person to obtain an identification card in order to claim the protections of Section 11362.5.

* A qualified patient or a person with an identification card

* Any individual who provides assistance

* A designated primary caregiver who transports, processes, administers, delivers, or gives away marijuana for medical purposes

* (a) Subject to the requirements of this article, the individuals specified in subdivision (b) shall not be subject, on that sole basis, to criminal liability.

Politicians and Cops are not necessary!

Former Cop: Legalizing Drugs Will Help Fight Gang Violence
Legalize and regulate drugs, or look to Mexico for our future. That's what one 28-year veteran Vancouver Police officer is saying about the ongoing wave of gang violence in Metro Vancouver. Tony Smith says keeping drugs illegal will only lead to more murders.

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How To Fight Gang Killings
"The War on drugs fails, and is doomed to perpetual failure, because it is directed not against the root causes of drug addiction and of the international black market in drugs, but only against some drug producers, traffickers and users... the War is doomed because neither the methods of war nor the war idiom itself is appropriate to a complex social problem that calls for compassion, self-searching insight and factually researched scientific understanding."

Justice Department Will Stop Medical Marijuana Raids, Attorney General Says

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funny my state raided my house right after this.. :mad: