Colorado: DEA raids medical marijuana lab
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Earlier this week, Federal drug enforcement agents raided a Denver lab that does potency testing for dispensaries. The lab is also designated as a caregiver for several medical-marijuana patients in the state. While a number of medical-marijuana samples were taken, there is apparently an ongoing investigation despite neither confirmation nor denial by the Feds. Such an action is raising a maelstrom among medical-pot advocates who are relying on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s assurances that federal agents would not interfere with medical dispensaries that complied with state marijuana laws.
Puzzling individuals on both sides of the debate, surrounds the emergence of medical-marijuana dispensaries and whether or not they will survive federal prohibitions under the Controlled Substances Act which makes pot illegal as a Schedule I drug – a law that has drawn much criticism from the pot-advocate community as being without rational merit yet posing severe indifference toward patients whom, they claim, benefit from medical-marijuana treatment.
A big legal question for many, then, is “How will medical-marijuana dispensaries, in what are a state permitted business and a form of intrastate commerce, past muster if a legal battle ensues between Colorado (and states with similar laws on their books) and the Federal Government?” If the Feds change their position and begin to enforce federal law so as to close down the dispensaries, a major piece of litigation will very likely ignite thus to test the viability of state medical-marijuana laws versus the Controlled Substances Act. As long as the federal law is not amended, the illegality of medical-marijuana on the federal level will continue to persist.(more at link)
http://www.examiner.com/x-37449-Fort-Collins-Courts-Examiner~y2010m1d29-Colorado...
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Earlier this week, Federal drug enforcement agents raided a Denver lab that does potency testing for dispensaries. The lab is also designated as a caregiver for several medical-marijuana patients in the state. While a number of medical-marijuana samples were taken, there is apparently an ongoing investigation despite neither confirmation nor denial by the Feds. Such an action is raising a maelstrom among medical-pot advocates who are relying on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s assurances that federal agents would not interfere with medical dispensaries that complied with state marijuana laws.
Puzzling individuals on both sides of the debate, surrounds the emergence of medical-marijuana dispensaries and whether or not they will survive federal prohibitions under the Controlled Substances Act which makes pot illegal as a Schedule I drug – a law that has drawn much criticism from the pot-advocate community as being without rational merit yet posing severe indifference toward patients whom, they claim, benefit from medical-marijuana treatment.
A big legal question for many, then, is “How will medical-marijuana dispensaries, in what are a state permitted business and a form of intrastate commerce, past muster if a legal battle ensues between Colorado (and states with similar laws on their books) and the Federal Government?” If the Feds change their position and begin to enforce federal law so as to close down the dispensaries, a major piece of litigation will very likely ignite thus to test the viability of state medical-marijuana laws versus the Controlled Substances Act. As long as the federal law is not amended, the illegality of medical-marijuana on the federal level will continue to persist.(more at link)
http://www.examiner.com/x-37449-Fort-Collins-Courts-Examiner~y2010m1d29-Colorado...
http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID37449/images/leaf.jpg
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