4 US Attorneys Announce that they are going after California Marijuana Industry<\/i><\/p>\n
by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n
Remember when Eric Holder said that the US Department of Justice wasn’t going to spend a lot of time investigating medical marijuana, but that they would spend time on distributors? Turns out the later overrules the former:<\/p>\n
Federal prosecutors in California announced a series of actions Friday targeting what they characterized as the “large, for-profit marijuana industry” that has developed since the state legalized medical marijuana for select patients 15 years ago.<\/p>\n
Four U.S. attorneys — Benjamin Wanger, Andre Birotte Jr., Laura Duffy and Melinda Haag — detailed in a joint press release steps they had taken in conjunction with federal law enforcement and local officials in California. (CNN<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I honestly don’t understand why the Administration would make this a priority? Does somebody thing this will win any votes? Will some vast amount of lives be saved? Sure, there probably is a bit of corruption in the industry, but nothing a formal recognition of the industry couldn’t solve. It’s time to give up this ridiculous war on marijuana and move on to focus on that war on poverty we never really won.<\/p>\n
I can’t really say it any better than Asm. Tom Ammiano said it today, so I’ll just reproduce that in whole:<\/p>\n
I am bitterly disappointed in the Obama Administration for this unwarranted and destructive attack on medical marijuana and patients’ rights to medicine. Today’s announcement by the Department of Justice means that Obama’s medical marijuana policies are worse than Bush and Clinton. <\/p>\n
It’s a tragic return to failed policies that will cost the state millions in tax revenue and harm countless lives. 16 states along with the District of Columbia have passed medical marijuana laws – whatever happened to the promises he made on the campaign trail to not prosecute medical marijuana or the 2009 DOJ memo saying that states with medical marijuana laws would not be prosecuted? Change we can believe in? Instead we get more of the same.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
4 US Attorneys Announce that they are going after California Marijuana Industry<\/i><\/p>\n
by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n
Remember when Eric Holder said that the US Department of Justice wasn’t going to spend a lot of time investigating medical marijuana, but that they would spend time on distributors? Turns out the later overrules the former:<\/p>\n
Federal prosecutors in California announced a series of actions Friday targeting what they characterized as the “large, for-profit marijuana industry” that has developed since the state legalized medical marijuana for select patients 15 years ago.<\/p>\n