DOJ plan to arrest state licensers...could doom the medical marijuana industry

The feds going over the state laws yet again... And this is another Obama's promise broken...

EXCLUS IVE: DOJ plan to arrest state licensers, tax dispensaries could doom medical marijuana industry

A recent letter from the Department of Justice (DOJ), threatening state employees in charge of implmenting medical marijuana laws with prosecution, has forced some governors to re-evaluate and even veto popular legislation -- all seemingly in violation of what the medical marijauana community thought was a cease-fire with the federal government.

Facing the threat of seeing otherwise innocent state employees thrown in jail, lawmakers are responding in an entirely human fashion: what Allen St. Pierre, executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), called "the old need to CYA -- cover your ass."

Ultimately, the administration's confusing legal position has led to a stagnation of medical marijuana reform efforts, with some states simply deciding it's not worth the risk.

It also represents a significant change in momentum for the prohibition reform movement as a whole, and one that's taken them almost entirely by surprise.

In 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department issued a memo stating that it would not prosecute medical marijuana patients, suppliers or caregivers in states that have passed voter initiatives to legalize the drug's use -- so long as they were all abiding by that state's laws.

Earlier this month, however, the Justice Department sent a letter to the governor of Washington, warning that state employees may be prosecuted if they are in any way involved in the licensing of production or distribution of marijuana.

But it's not just state workers who DOJ is currently targeting in its efforts to end the sale of marijuana for medical uses. As previously reported, the DOJ is coming after licensed growers and dispensaries with a very old tool: the tax code.

IT'S A FREAKING PLANT. BUG OFF!! And it's not even against marijuana in general, but against MEDICAL marijuana... and unless you have cancer, you CANNOT imagine how needed this medical marijuana is.

I hope all the scum in the federal government pushing for this gets cancer.

But of course the scum in power will never do that because of the pharma industry, the prison industry, the police state industry, taking rights away and of course the CIA black budget.

reply to post by Vitchilo


100% unconstitutional.

The feds need to be put back in their rightful place.

I don't see why these state employee's don't just buck up and take the arrests in the interest of the people...they'd gain the peoples support and the DOJ plan would be in shambles if only some people were willing to stand up to these D bags

The Governor of Washington State said she was not going to put up with this s**t.....They were not going to arrest her state employees......PERIOD...she stated.....

i would like to see the Tea Partiers, and the other small government advocates take this one up. or is the motto "States Rights, except when the state disagrees with me."


edit to remove a bit of my own bias. left or right - they're all shills.

reply to post by Caji316


good for the gov. of washington caji...I hope other governors stand up and say the same and put the finger to the feds the way they should be doing in the best interest of the people and the state...

Originally posted by mythos
i would like to see the Tea Partiers, and the other small government advocates take this one up. or is the Republican motto "States Rights, except when the state disagrees with me."

I think its "freedom and liberty, unless its concerns drugs, sex, abortion, war or the police state.".

The excuse is all of the dispensaries(because a few in the state were caught) are going to sell/prescribe pain medications illegally.

I do not like this one bit but I have to say that I was kind of waiting for this to happen. Just over the last couple of months I have suddenly found myself in contact with lots of people that seem to "have a friend with an MJ card." It just seemed like this explosion of anyone and everyone within reach suddenly getting "medicinal" marijuanna.

It just kind of reminds of me when mom and dad so you cannot have a party but you know they will let you if you keep it kind of quiet and suddenly it got really loud. Oh well. Not legal in my state in any manner anyway...yet.