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U.S. Out of California
Stop all current DOJ, DEA, ONDCP, and IRS attacks
against medical cannabis dispensaries in California.
With public support for medical marijuana as much as double (at 60-80%) that of the President (at 41%), the Obama administration declared all-out war on medical marijuana in California and across the country last week with the announcement that federal law ”takes precedence over state law and applies regardless of the particular uses for which a dispensary is selling and distributing marijuana.”
“Under United States law, a dispensary’s operations involving sales and distribution of marijuana are illegal and subject to criminal prosecution and civil enforcement actions,” according to the letters signed by U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy in San Diego. “Real and personal property involved in such operations are subject to seizure by and forfeiture to the United States … regardless of the purported purpose of the dispensary.”
This dramatic escalation in the war by the government against the people comes almost exactly two years after the New York Times announced, on 19 Oct 2009, “U.S. Won’t Prosecute in States That Allow Medical Marijuana.”
Popularity: 12% [?]
Marijuana and Wall Street
The only mention I’ve seen connecting marijuana prohibition to the Wall Street protests is a rather snide remark by a publication called The Business Insider. After lamenting that bearing breasts wasn’t illegal, they ended their hatchet job with an exhortation to the police to arrest people for smoking marijuana:
Another thing that caught me by surprise was the use of marijuana. I walked right by a protestor smoking weed in broad daylight. The police must have been just 20 feet away too. If you’re at a protest site surrounded by hundreds of police officers and trying to get out your important message out, then it’s probably not the best idea to light one up!
The prohibition of marijuana is arguably the greatest crime against humanity in all of history, and the responsibility for this war against the citizens by the government lies squarely with Wall Street. It’s all about corporate greed and government corruption.
Popularity: 11% [?]
Paul Stanford and the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act 2012
Paul Stanford of The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation in Oregon discusses his history as a marijuana legalization activist, beginning with becoming the NORML coordinator for Washington State in 1982, his association with Jack Herer beginning in 1984, the current state of medical marijuana and the movement in Oregon, and the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act 2012.
Canada on Cannabis – The show that believes the prohibition of marijuana is a crime against humanity
A somewhat different view of marijuana, medical marijuana, and the marijuana anti-prohibition movement.
Sundays, 6-8pm Pacific on Free Radio Santa Cruz, 101.1 FM.Listen Live Online: http://www.freakradio.org/listen.html Call-In: (831) 427-3772
Canada on Cannabis 024, broadcast 14 Aug 11: Listen
Length: 1:53:50
0:06 – Oregon Cannabis Tax Act has 30,000 signatures, needs about 90,000 more to make the ballot. They have until July and are already a quarter of the way there. Colorado has 3 initiatives in the works, with 8 permutations of one of them. California has 3. One, maybe two in Indiana. One, maybe two, in Ohio. Read entire article.
Popularity: 7% [?]
California judge rules medical marijuana cultivation is not agriculture
In a ruling that could have sweeping implications, a judge in California has ruled that marijuana cultivation is not “agriculture”.
The Fresno Bee broke the story Wednesday that Tulare County Superior Court Judge Paul Vortmann ruled:
…the court finds as a matter of law that growing marijuana … is not an agricultural use of property
The Fresno Bee reports that the ruling arose from a case brought by Tulare County Counsel Kathleen Bales-Lange on behalf of The Tulare County Board of Supervisors against Foothill Growers Association medical marijuana collective which rented a building in an agricultural zone, and against the property owner. The collective used the building to cultivate and dispense medical marijuana.
In dismissing the claim by Brandon Ormonde, representing the property owner, that the collective’s cultivation is legal because it’s in an agricultural zone, Vortmann wrote:
In this state, marijuana has never been classified as a crop or horticultural product
The Visalia Times-Delta reports:
The county ordinance, adopted in 2009, requires medical-marijuana grow sites and dispensaries to be in commercially zoned areas of the unincorporated county.
Other provisions require that growing plants has to be done in-doors, along with additional requirements that include security measures and containing the plants’ smell.
Popularity: 10% [?]
