Medical Marijuana Raids across California & Montana ...

Just a few thoughts from someone who used to be against marijuana until going through the agonizing death of a beloved 15 year old:

The medical community is absolutely not against MM especially in California where the Medical Board of California actually came out with a policy for the "recommendation" of MM. More physicians are beginning to see its benefits and change their way of thinking when they see the progress of their patients. If there's a problem other than the Feds, I'd look to the drug companies. They have a lot more to lose while good physicians are grateful for anything that's beneficial to their patients in pain.

It's also my feeling that MM actually puts law enforcement officers at LESS risk that criminalizing it. The officers know - if they go into a legitimate MM dispensary - that they aren't going to be shot at, resisted or anything else other than getting full cooperation. It's far safer for them than walking into a drug house/corner/whatever when they have no idea what weapons they might face.

And let's not forget the taxes collected by the State of California. In these days of budget crisis, legitimate dispensaries contribute greatly to the economy.

End the war on drugs.....a war on human consciousness

I've said it before, what we really need is a political movement to get the cannabis supporters off thier asses and out to vote... put the pipe down long enough to ensure your rights to pick up a pipe.

The attitude about marijuana is politics as usual. People are out at bars and liquor stores all over the country all day and all night legally drinking themselves blind, cripple & crazy. And that would include the Feds.

A sorry waste of man-power. They have more pressing issues needing immediate attention. They need to get busy.

ALL ABOUT THE MONEY - DISTRACTIONS FOR THE NEWS TO TAKE YOUR MIND OFF MELTDOWN IN JAPAN?

This shift in policy puts medical marijuana sellers and patients across America in jeopardy: There's no telling what state will be next.

Will you click here to tell Obama and Holder to keep their promises and end the raids right away?

legalize cannabis

Fuck You Obama!!!!

(fuck you Holder)

why keep wasteing all our hard earned money when all we ask for is a bit of relife from time to time. drinking kills, ciggs kill, ignorance kills the most.

It's high time for my generation, the coming generation, and generation X to legalize Marijuana once & for all (get it? high time?).

it seems to me like the medical industry is behind this... just like with obamacare... (don't think for a second obamacare was to benefit the people --- requiring heath insurance or be fined sounds like it was designed to benefit the industry)... and the pharmaceutical companies want to take them out... furthermore, the pressure on the US from Mexico to end our endless demand for drugs... could also be a motive for all this... as well as maybe the distributors were not following the rules... so many valid speculations on why this keeps on happening... JUST legalize it already...

Its called "harvesting"!

Obama smoked weed as a young man. Too bad he became a liar^H^H^H^H...er...lawyer and politician because he might have done something useful.

The fact that I took my dying wife to the polls to vote for this lying SOB sickens and angers me. We both really believed that change was coming and we knew that she wouldn't be here to see it. She passed away five months later.

Hey Fig why not next time just post the link to the story instead of cutting and pasting the whole thing and posting it on your blog?

Skip the blog and go to the original source:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/medicalmarijuana/?akid=422.355275.4ScB8V&...

Notice no arrests what so ever because they were not doing anything illegal the DEA just when in and robbed them at gun point for all their Money and property.

Obama is turning out to be a huge Corporate whore.....SOLD to the highest bidder!

Another Obama about face.This guy gives you whiplash.Big Pharma told Obama again how it will be.More change we can't believe in.What's going to be his theme in the next election?Ha Ha Ha Suckers!

Remember the civil war?
Remember the primary reason for our civil war?
Anyone think it's time to start succeeding yet?

New tyranny, now with more sheep skin!

This is such a racket. Don't establish independent state discretion only to undermine it with federal regulations.

Idiots.

The war on terrorism and the war on drugs are mutually exclusive.

The war on drugs is terrorism. It's the systematic use of violence and intimidation as a means to achieve a political goal. They well know that cannabis is harmless, so they use terrorism to control the masses for purely political/financial reasons. They know that prohibition is based on lies.

We should consider the DEA and their puppet masters and politician backers a terrorist conglomerate. Money and control is far more important to them than the human beings whose lives they destroy, imprison, and end.

Prohibition is big business.

if they would just legalize and tax on a federal level this could make them money instead of costing them money.

What happened to states rights and the 10th amendment? If the people of a state either directly vote or elect representatives to vote for the legalization of medical marijuana, what business does the federal government have invading a state and shaking down state law abiding marijuana dispensaries?

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/how-to-waste-money-and-lives The government is broke so let's go bust some pot smokers?

Hey, maybe they could save some money by stopping these asinine arrests. Give it up already!

glad I live in the woods in NY, high on a hill, greenhouse included....not for sale!

I'm really not effin surprised. Sadened, but not surprised.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if Big Pharma is the puppeteer here. They are the only ones losing money, not only on the pills they push, but also on the pills to counteract the side effects from the original pills.

I got the petition for this yesterday. I signed it. Holder is a whore to the big corporations. He won't do anything. Neither will Obama. Just like he never stood with the union workers here in WI. All they want to do is keep the useless war on drugs going. They really don't want people to have medical marijuana because that will take a cut out of big pharma. This is the shit our government has time and money for. There are bigger things to worry about than pot. Just legalize it and let people use it for medical purposes. I'll bet Obama and Holder get to smoke pot without any problem. Bush was the bigger joke when it came to this. That alcoholic coke head. It's just us who can't use pot. Just more police state tactics.

The minority (law inforcement), selectively inforce the law against the majority (marijuana users). It's like law inforcement waiting outside a bar and arresting everyone leaving who had a drivers licence and tested positive for DWI.

I'm as pissed about this as anyone but we don't know many facts about these raids.
When Holder announced that they were taking a hands off approach to the medical marijuana in states that allow it, he also added the caveat that they would still pursue cases which involved organized crime or inter-state trafficking.
I have read there were a total of 74 raids since Pres. Obama took office but there were very few arrests and no indictments.
Personally as long as I know they are not turning the Hubble telescope around to check out my "tomato" garden, I feel a little safer.

These raids are illegal and unconstitutional. The 10th amendment says so.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Why is the Obama administration allowing this? This was started by Bush and it continues under Obama.

Instead of demonizing Medical Marijuana, how about we focus on REAL social problems...

I think it is very clear now, anyone is better than Obama.
He's just a two faced punk.

Ok, but when you have someone like Sarah Silverman tell Joy Baher in an interview that she has an MM prescription for menstral cramps, that really doesn't lend credibility to the MM system. It shows how the system is abused.

You would think the Feds would have bigger fish to fry. Signed the petition.

It makes my skin crawl to imagine innocent people being held at gunpoint by the Federal government's pawns for their possession of a healing plant. This constant, pointless clashing between the state and the federal government really shows how faulty and injudicious the entire system is. It needs revising.

you don't stand alone, people you would never think would believe would are starting to wake up, let's just hope that its not already to late to do something about it

I have officially lost any hope that I had for Obama. Hope that asshole doesn't get nominated next election cycle.

I think they are just going afte rthe remnants of the Left under conservative pressure(our Democratic leaders are patsy's They are all in FEAR))Take out the Left Medical Marijuana movement cause we denied big bis, last election?!) in grass-roots and homegrown and they watch too much FOX they are helping make our people the enemy what democracy is this ? i dont feel safe in my own home and my own community they are stepping it up and silencing us its deliberate censorship and control give a false since of security get people relaxed and in the open then slam them w/ Federal mandates twisted and if Im not mistaken a major federal entrapment vs. citizen type case am I wrong? they didnt allow big bis in in cali now this is payback >>>>? think about it ,..political prisoners

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Before we send ONE more American to jail torture and financial ruin for exercising their human right to happiness , let me purpose this...before one more innocent citizen is ruined under false agenda's and profit. I say..this: DRUG TEST EVERY GOVT OFFICIAL (top down first!! sorry never ask us to do what they are unwilling the hypocricy is palpable every one before one more citizen period).. those .turds I know what YOU DO and I got you by the Balls call for them too be subject to random search past affiliation and any other incriminating evidence they are so done the fools done stepped in it! There's more evidence than rightly ,..ever should be, its sick these sickophant politicos dea ,fb,i cia,(no capitals for gestapos) pathetic excuse for protection I revoke my invested interest in this PONZI sceme ... Guess I'll see you all in the political prison gooelog.. I'll show ya around...PEACE!

... and because I feel its my duty to stand with the accused >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>of johnny Appleseed yea baby... Ditchweed my grandmother always said (with a playful sparkle and wink of her eye in my direction) nobody ever noticed , but me!) I don't care what you know or think you know but its been the great agricultural windfall(the best seed strains the best original /breeds)they are desired greatly throughout the western world and now more!!!lets capitalize damn! )if you haven't)?... and medical breakthrough for so so many and so much more where you think that I get my >>>>>*******(I know I'll be careful thanks for thinking I know!) this is just more exploiting that whitch they themselves now and always have used for their insidious purpose of mass prison and oppression of good homegrown American Ingenuity u ask for invention and reform Mr. Prez and crew???.. (We are Americans we work with what we got!!!! WAKE UP OR FALL) and freedom but you agree and aquiece to Slavery conformity and DELAY.. this is all fronts am I the only one awake!!!!!! ARGHHHHH! say thy captain! we must act or be divided and conquered.. If they won't tell you I'll stretch my neck one last time and SAY: ACT or be devoured this is the the beginning of the end people you are being lied too fooled and people are disappearing am i alone?

WOW! Big pharma must be really concerned. Every day more and more information is surfacing about the BENEFEITS of Marijuana. They are the only ones that are behind this. Someone my age still knows a few of the origional hippies. The sad fact is that they are in better health than I am. Gee, I wonder if it is all that POT they smoke.

So....when the federal government shuts down does that mean this shit stops happening?

I wonder who put them up to it?

I met an older woman over the weekend who said had it not been for medical marijuana she would have died from the extreme sickness caused by chemo treatments for her breast cancer.
She said it was the only thing that helped her keep her food down and to keep up her fight.
She said her Doctor suggested it!

How bad can the financial crisis be if we can waste resources sending federal agents in to break up tax paying entities? Cutting off our bud to spite our treasury. More great common sense from our government.

"Munchin'Fung!!!!"

Legalize it and enjoy the money from the tax. But they have a nice prison system to fill and whats a easy way to fill that prison nation ? why with those that smoke the Herb of course .

All they're going to do is make people want to fight for legalization more. After that post about a government health agency officially recognizing that cannabis does have medicinal uses, I don't see how they can keep this up much longer.

one step forward two steps back.

It's about MONEY!
I think the Cartels have paid some politician or law enforcement agency to do these raids.
It's about the MONEY! So we have to make Legalization about the MONEY!