Feds Target Medical Marijuana Despite Increased Popular Support
source: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/feds_target_medical_marijuana_despite_increased_...
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Despite the public’s increased support for the legalization of medical marijuana, the Department of Justice has renewed its crackdown, this time targeting the landlords of dispensaries under laws allowing the feds to seize the assets of traffickers. Under civil asset forfeiture laws, the DOJ is forcing the landlords to either shut down the shops on their property or risk the seizure of the land by the federal government.
This move by the DOJ has been kept quiet in order to avoid the ire of medical marijuana supporters, whose numbers are at an all-time high. The tactic also avoids formal challenges to state laws, mainly in California but potentially in all 24 states in which medical marijuana could become legalized by the end of the year.—CN
This move by the DOJ has been kept quiet in order to avoid the ire of medical marijuana supporters, whose numbers are at an all-time high. The tactic also avoids formal challenges to state laws, mainly in California but potentially in all 24 states in which medical marijuana could become legalized by the end of the year.—CN
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