TODAY,,, Federal medical marijuana crackdown continues in California ((AGAIN))

[DreamSmoker]

You might not even have known it if I had not posted it....


The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigations raided a state-legal medical cannabis cooperative in the Lake Tahoe area Monday, in a chilling reminder that the four year-old joint federal-state attack on medical marijuana continues despite widespread opposition and a federal law barring the use of federal funds for such activity.

Several reports trickled in Monday of the raid at Tahoe Wellness Collective in South Lake Tahoe. Police took cash, cannabis, computers, keys, phones and the like, reports indicate. The group stated via Facebook: “This is a sad day for the industry. We hope that this will not interfere with TWC’s mission of providing safe, affordable medicine to qualified patients who need it.”

The DEA gave TWC attorneys no information as to why they raided the dispensary, which has a license to operate in South Lake Tahoe.

http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2015/06/02/federal-medical-marijuana-crackdown-continues-in-california/

[RKP5637]

1. All the woes of the world and absolute bullshit like this continues. n/t

[arcane1]

2. Talk about a WTF moment. WTF is this (from your link):

A federal law passed in 2014 also bars the use of Department of Justice funds for such raids. However, the DOJ has stated they do not believe the law applies to California. The law’s author Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R- Huntington Beach) said the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment very much applies to the oldest medical cannabis economy in the world.

“It’s U.S. attorneys, like Melinda Haag in the Bay Area, who are breaking federal law, not the dispensaries they’re prosecuting. These federal prosecutors have gone rogue, and the attorney general needs to rein them in. Their campaign against medical marijuana is no longer just misguided, it’s also illegal,” Rohrabacher stated.

[peecoolyour]

6. But their hands were tied when it came to prosecuting Wall St. crimes?

WTF, indeed.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. NH passed a shitty medical marijuana law three years ago and has stalled implementation.

0 dispensaries open.

Mass passed a shitty medical marijuana law four years ago and has stalled implementation.
0 dispensaries open.

Fuck them. Our rulers sneer at our efforts at democracy.

[peecoolyour]

4. I feel safer already.

[DreamSmoker]

5. Posted on February 9, 2015,,, Feds lose in court against Berkeley marijuana dispensary

BPG’s leadership does not understand why U.S. Attorney Haag is defying orders from the White House as well as Congressional law mandating she do something more useful with her time and resources.

Major Berkeley medical cannabis dispensary Berkeley Patients Group notched another win against federal authorities in court Friday when a Federal judge sided with the City of Berkeley in its efforts to keep the dispensary open.

The dispensary will now remain open while the courts decide whether the City of Berkeley has the legal standing to defend the club in court against federal prosecutors.

In May 2013, United States Attorney Melinda Haag moved to seize the state’s oldest, most respected legal cannabis dispensary as part of a broad crackdown on state-legal canna-businesses.


http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2015/02/09/feds-lose-in-court-against-berkeley-marijuana-dispensary/

[PoliticAverse]

7. If she's really defying the orders of the President he can fire her. n/t

[MindPilot]

9. Well he hasn't so far...

and that is certainly not because of a lack of opportunity.

[MindPilot]

8. And yet a governor (Nebraska) openly defies the law to import illegal drugs.

I guess it's OK when you're a high-ranking politician, the drugs are deadly, and you want to use them to kill people.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. This is why Loretta Lynch is such a rotten choice for AG

She's a drug warrior who goes on and on about how many Baptist preachers have been in her family. Barf.