It was a little over a year ago when the United States Department of Justice announced that it would back away from pursuing cases against medical marijuana patients and providers who are acting in accordance with state and local laws.
“As a general matter, pursuit of [federal law enforcement] priorities should not focus federal resources … on individuals whose actions are in clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state laws providing for the medical use of marijuana,” The DOJ announced on October 19, 2009. “For example, prosecution of individuals with cancer or other serious illnesses who use marijuana as part of a recommended treatment regimen consistent with applicable state law, or those caregivers in clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state law who provide such individuals with marijuana, is unlikely to be an efficient use of limited federal resources.”
Apparently Michelle Leonhart, President Obama’s nominee to direct the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, didn’t get the memo.
Speaking yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, on day one of her Senate confirmation process, Leonhart pledged to ignore the administration’s formal medical marijuana guidelines.
Michele Leonhart one step closer to officially heading up the DEA
[excerpt] Acting director Michele Leonhart is that much closer to officially heading up the Drug Enforcement Agency after successfully navigating a hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
via The Daily CallerIf confirmed to the position she’s already held for three years, Leonhart said she would expand the DEA’s anti-cartel operations in Mexico and continue to enforce federal drug laws in states where medical marijuana is legal.
… Perhaps due to the failure of Prop 19 in California (and despite the passage of medical marijuana in Arizona), Kohl, along with Democratic Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Al Franken of Minnesota, made no mention of medical marijuana. Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, however, made it his prime focus.
“I’m a big fan of the DEA,” said Sessions, before asking Leonhart point blank if she would fight medical marijuana legalization.
“I have seen what marijuana use has done to young people, I have seen the abuse, I have seen what it’s done to families. It’s bad,” Leonhart said. “If confirmed as administrator, we would continue to enforce the federal drug laws.”
“These legalization efforts sound good to people,” Sessions quipped. “They say, ‘We could just end the problem of drugs if we could just make it legal.’ But any country that’s tried that, Alaska and other places have tried it, have failed. It does not work,” Sessions said.
“We need people who are willing to say that. Are you willing to say that?” Sessions asked Leonhart.
“Yes, I’ve said that, senator. You’re absolutely correct [about] the social costs from drug abuse, especially from marijuana,” Leonhart said. “Legalizers say it will help the Mexican cartel situation; it won’t. It will allow states to balance budgets; it won’t. No one is looking [at] the social costs of legalizing drugs.”
It is shocking to learn that not a single Senator who attended the hearing, in particular Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse from Rhode Island, had the courage to demand that Ms. Leonhart respect the laws of the 15 states that have legalized the use of marijuana as a medicine. In the case of Sen. Whitehouse, his own state is now in the process of licensing state-certified marijuana providers and distributors; yet he appears to have no problem with the idea of appointing a federal official who declares her intention to put his own constituents in federal prison.
It gets even more disturbing. In the days leading up to Wednesday’s initial confirmation hearing, a coalition of advocacy groups — including NORML, Americans for Safe Access, and others called on members of the Senate Judiciary to ask Ms. Leonhart tough questions regarding her public record, one that is incompatible with state laws, public opinion, and with the policies of this administration. Yet not a single Senator did so.
There is a growing divide between state and federal law concerning the use of marijuana for medical purposes, and it would only take members of the Senate — or Ms. Leonhart for that matter — a cursory scan of today’s google headlines to see it:
Prop 203 Passes: Medical Marijuana to Be Legal in Arizona
via CBS News
New Mexico approves six new medical marijuana producers
via The New Mexico Independent
Maine couple cleared to open marijuana clinic
via The Associated Press
DC revises medical marijuana regulations
via Comcast
As we’ve written before, as Interim DEA director, Ms. Leonhart has overseen dozens of federal raids on medical marijuana providers, producers, and laboratory facilities that engage in the testing of cannabis potency and quality. Yesterday Ms. Leonhart pledged to continue these actions — actions that violate this administration’s own written policies, and more importantly, actions that target the civilians of fifteen states and the District of Columbia. These people are the constituents of 30 percent of the U.S. Senate; yet not even one of these elected officials appears willing to speak up for them. That is disgraceful.
Want to write or call your Senator about Ms. Leonhart’s nomination process? You can still do so here and here.
Legalize marijuana now.
What should we do with someone who goes against the will of the people?
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!?!!
Yay!!?!!
This is Albert Einsteins definition of insanity
Sick, twisted… Wish I could say more without advocating harm to this horrible excuse for a human being.
This is ridiculous. She has no factual information to support her claims that legalizing marijuana will not weaken the Mexican cartels or help balance state budgets. There is an abundance of information that supports the opposite of those claims right here on the NORML website.
“Apparently Michelle Leonhart, President Obama’s nominee to direct the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, didn’t get the memo.”
She got the memo. It’s just that she’s smarter and more important than the President of the United States (president v. Czar. Czar wins). That’s obvious. If the President is stupid enough to draft someone that says they’ll do the opposite of what he says, he’s an all time fool. But then, some of us have known that for a long time. If she can just get the Mexican death toll into the 6 digits (100k+), she’ll prove how effective she is (that’s how she gauges progress), and that she is right. Then it will definitely be a done deal.
I agree with the idea of stopping the drug cartels but, that will never happen if the federal government comes along and starts arresting sick people that are in compliance of state laws. I would like to know what families and young people she knows that has made such an impact on her to think that marijuana is such a detrimental issue. So she balanced a state budget….. She obviously has some homework to do before she decides to speak out against medical marijuana. If she wants to address a real drug problem here in the U.S, she need to look at the pharmaceutical industry along with the doctors and insurance companies. They are the real drug pushers causing crimes.
Karma coming back to bitch slap the Medical Pot bunch in Cali who voted against prop. 219 just to enrich themselves at the expense of doing the right thing for everyone. The Feds have now claimed a victory and will begin going after State grows for MM clinics…and then the clinics themselves. Short sighted idiots in Humbolt and the triangle area have set pot law reform back two decades.
Totally sickening. Let’s make a commerical of dead mexicans thanking leonhart for ending there lives. And questioning how its being spun as a sucess.
No one who matters gives a shit what Michelle Leonhart thinks. Like all the patients and people who prefer to relax with cannabis instead of alcohol are just going to stop or go away.
Give her the orders to use the proposals to transition from prohibition to legal cannabis I wrote about before.
Namely, hold regional conferences in the West, Southwest, Midwest, Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and South where people give papers on how to legalize at the state level in states in that area, as well as how to make the transition from prohibition to legal cannabis at the federal level. Professors, private sector intellectuals, and concerned interest group representatives should all present. Give grants to the professors.
I mean, really, anyone is government, you know, politicians or the bureaucracy, is too damn lazy, too stupid, has their hands tied, or like most people is afraid to say diddly-squat on legalization. And then there are people like Leonhard whose salary and climb to the top rest on keeping things the way they are, prohibited.
Make Michelle adapt the winning proposals to regulations, a study on her part, and then Congress can just rubber stamp it. Or Congress rubber stamps a proposal, and Michelle does it anyway, adapts it to regulations.
Funny thing though, concentrating people into ghettos where unemployment is rampant, termed undesirable people, then using supply-side economics by introducing all kinds of drugs into the equation. I mean, it’s the cat’s paw analogy, to have a goodly number of them kill themselves by dealing to their own and having them move on to highly addictive substances such as heroin or even crack, you know, by not separating the soft drug, cannabis, from hard drugs.
Cat’s paw is a phrase derived from La Fontaine’s fable, “The Monkey and the Cat”, referring to one used unwittingly by another to accomplish his own purposes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat's_paw
It’s Malthusian, even closet-fascist.
You know, Thomas Malthus’s way of controlling overpopulation is one thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthus
But when there is essentially no overpopulation, as we have here in the States, you know, compared to other civilizations, you know, Western Europe has a higher population density, and the circumstances are that mostly one or two ethnic groups considered undesirable are concentrated into poor areas, it looks so insidious, like subtle fascism, especially when this aspect is pointed out to people, exposed, and yet it continues.
I have to give thanks to George Soros & Mr. Lewis and all the other wealthy wise supporters.
Really.
I want the U.S. to become a more open society, a more compassionate society.
Thank you, Mr. Soros. Thank you, Mr. Lewis.
Thank you, all you legalization supporters.
Marijuana is a much safer choice then alcohol and tobacco according to science, plus it’s a very beneficial medicine for many ailments. Stupid, ignorant people like her are the reason so many lives are ruined and that’s why there’s violence in the first place. Someone needs to stop her or things are going to get worse.
so we have nearly 1/3rd of the states who have ratified a form of Medicinal Marijuana in the 14 yrs since Californians passed prop 215, and there a a handful of patients who receive FEDERAL MEDICINAL MARIJUANA, yet the head of the DEA still turns a blind eye to the MEDICINAL values of cannabis? When is the DEA going to start looking at the facts and realize that the RECREATIONAL USE argument and the MEDICINAL USE argument are two separate entities. WAKE UP LEONHART, AND SMELL THE CANNABIS FLOWERS!!!!
im tired of american anti-drug politician bullshit… i cant stand to hear it
The President made certain unequivocal election Campaign promises about Medicinal Cannabis. I hope Leonhart keeps this in mind, or a serious question arises about whether we can believe anything at all these people tell us during their election campaigns.
I wonder who Obama really is. He’s clearly not the person we all thought we were electing. How else could anyone possibly explain his choice of Leonhart? I really had a lot of hope for him but now, I think he needs to go. I’d vote for Sarah Palin over him in a heartbeat right now if the election were to be held right now!
Wow! To think I voted for people who I thought had back bones!! This is ridiculous! I pray for our future….
NORML is all over the dea.gov website. This will get nasty before it gets better! We have to stay strong though, because the government is going to keep trying to make NORML and the “marijuana reform groups” look like evil villains. These are peoples jobs we’re messing with, so of course they’re fighting emotionally. I’m sorry, but I must say no significant human rights movement has ever came about because of a peaceful reform. This is a fight for human rights! Let them keep making these ignorant decisions. It will only benefit us in the long run. I will no longer sit down and raise my hand; I will Stand Up for my rights. This is America, and we have a democratic choice to fight for what we believe in.
I agree with Mark. I need some answers too. I am extremely upset with my senator’s response letter she sent me. And there’s nothing I can do about it but be enraged… That senator is Patty Murray of Washington state, just FYI. These senators need to go. But to me, the majority of Americans are too scared to admit that the old ways (democrat, republican) are full of CORRUPTED individuals who are bought and paid for. Paid to vote a certain way, support certain special interests and uphold certain “values”. They have no business being involved in a government that is about being just and fair. I want people with an actual gift of intellect to be involved in American government, not just some mouthpiece without a conscience or heart.
Where in the constitution does it say The federal Govt can LIE to its people?
Respectfully – Michele is a Kool Aide drinkin Idiot
And Tax Payers pay for this…….God Bless America
People need to stop holding their breath and realize this one very simple truth:
YOUR GOVERNMENT DOESN’T CARE ABOUT YOU.
FOR THE LIFE OF ME,I JUST CAN’T UNDERSTAND THE REASONS BEHIND OBAMA’s DECISION TO PUT EVERY MARIJUANA SMOKERS WORST NIGHTMARE IN CHARGE OF EVERY MARIJUANA SMOKERS LEAST FAVORITE GOVERNMENT AGENCY.IT DOES MAKE A LOT OF SENSE IF YOU WANT TO ALIENATE A LARGE PART OF THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR YOU.THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DEATH & INCARCERATION,AND PEACE AND PROSPERITY MR.OBAMA,WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO START LISTENING TO THE PEOPLE.
This is sad. I think ive lost faith in humanity because of this right here…
She’s seen firsthand how marijuana ruins families and the lives of young people? I’d like for her to site some examples. She’s pulling “facts” out of her rear.
If I lose my right to Cannabis Tinctures I will be back in misery and on over 20 pills a day again and death will endure within a few years. Can she be prosecuted for Murder?
“I have seen what marijuana use has done to young people, I have seen the abuse, I have seen what it’s done to families. It’s bad,” Leonhart said. “If confirmed as administrator, we would continue to enforce the federal drug laws.”
I’d like to know exactly what she has seen marijuana do to families. Break them up, put tax paying parents in jail and their kids in state custody at the tax payers expense? Oh wait, it’s the current drug laws that do that, no the drug itself. Today’s drug laws do more to hurt the gov’t, i.e. arresting citizens who more than likely pay taxes and eliminating that source of revenue, while at the same time costing upwards of $40k/yr for their incarceration. If the person is young, that mark on their record hurts or in some cases eliminates their chances of receiving student aid for college thus again, hurting our economy by forcing them into a low paying job because they missed an opportunity to advance their education.
Is anyone really surprised that an elected federal politician above the Congress is behaving like they’ve sold themself to the Military-Industrial Complex? They have! If they hadn’t they would never have gotten as far as they have. This is true regardless of how much melanin is or isn’t in their skin. Do something about it! Help the armband proposal. Join NORML. Work with your local activist groups. Stand up and be counted!!!
I’ve seen what the DEA has done to families…..
The peops that support cannabis have to toss the other peops out!!
These lying politicians motivate me to fight harder and be more resistant against the status quo. The only people who believe this crap are simple minded idiots. Mexico is no longer a developing country because of this Drug War and the chaos is moving north and getting worse every day. Although I pray for Mexico, the fact it is moving north and will be worse than the average citizen can fathom, it makes me smile. History will show these Republican hicks are the worst enemy The United States has ever encountered. The Chickens are coming home to roost.
The War On Drugs is when the CIA uses the DEA to eliminate the competition.
Why do we even vote anymore? It is being proven that if the system doesn’t like the voice of the people, they ignore it. If they do what they want anyway, what is the use of our votes?
I am really loosing my faith and love for my country. Canada is starting to look good and they beat the USA on a poll for what country s citizens have the most freedom.
Canada #1
USA #2
Wow! That’s depressing and oppressing all at the same time! She prolly goes home and drinks a bottle of wine or a six-pack after a full days work and thinks nothing of it. She, along with the rest of today’s marijuana prohibitionists are unfortunately relics of the “reefer madness” generation and continue to follow it’s “urban legend” quality. Even science (peer-reviewed literature) is supportive of it’s medical efficacy and that it is exponentially safer than alcohol. AND ALCOHOL IS LEGAL (as it should be)!
those people need to eat some marijuana brownies–clearly
Only one senator spoke out, and it was in favor of the DEA. It sounds like to me that he could have been one of the only one that favored current law in its entirety. But it’s still unfortunate we’re in a time where we’re too afraid to question the status quo. Times will change, let’s just hope soon.
Want to save billions of dollars? Get rid of the DEA. They’re obviously not doing a good job if I can find almost any drug by walking to the nearest dealer on the block.
I really dont know that I expected anything less from our Government.. We are heading towards total domination from our government. The War on Drugs and the People that stood silently and gave up their Freedom to allow the search and seizure of Workers Urine started the downfall. It has expanded ever forward until present day. Today they search everyone at the Airport in the name of Security. Soon there will be border Checkpoints at State after State, again in the name of Security. The majority will say nothing.. It is soon time to leave and turn off the lights..
How long can we consider the United States a democracy when the government openly opposes the will of the people? Have they forgot that THEY work for US? High ranking officials need to realize that it is their duty to represent the people they govern. They need to stop fighting patients. And they need to stop fighting their citizens who choose to use marijuana. It is only a matter of time (hopefully) that people can see through empty statements such as “I have seen what marijuana use has done to young people, I have seen the abuse, I have seen what it’s done to families. It’s bad,”. Once the propaganda embedded in our society is debunked, we will have a reasonable and logical drug policy in this country.
Legalize in 2012.. It might be the last chance we get
One day, years from now, perhaps not in my lifetime, people will look back on this the way we see the Volstead Act, as a failed policy that enabled and encouraged criminal activity. And for what? To ban a relatively innocuous herb. This is supposed to be The Land of the Free.
Who are these people who presume to tell us that we can’t use a benign herb to ease arthritis and muscle pain of old people, help relieve glaucoma, increase the appetites of cancer patients and help insomniacs get to sleep. OR, just to relax after a tough day.
Somebody ought to bake a batch of cannabis brownies for some of these politicians (and not tell them until after they’ve had a sample or two).
Earth to Leonhart: WE SHALL NEVER GO BACK to the STREETS for our MEDICINE.
Don’t EVEN go there. You would NOT like the results.
Richard Paul Steeb, San Jose California
If they start raiding medical dispensaries again in California maybe that will change all those stoners against legalization, minds by 2012…
It is obvious the will of the people is being ignored. There is a great deal of money to be made by the prison/military/law enforcement/industrial/pharmaceutical interests by keeping marijuana illegal, and arresting users. We all have to demand this madness stop. Let us speak as one! Marijuana is more popular than any candidate, and this fact must now be capitalized upon.
Free the weed!
And the billion dollar war continues, build more jails, raise taxes, lock up half the nation, let the insanity rise to it’s highest level.
ITS ALL FALLING APART !!! THE MOVEMENT NEEDS NEW LEADLERSHIP!!!
Well greedy pot growers might have shot them self’s in the ass vetoing no on prop 19 outta greed,yay i hope she cleans house i hope she fights a real drug war to put the greedy growers behind bars, i hope it wakes the lazy smokers that could have voted so they vote in 2012
What a hypocrite!
Quote “I have seen what marijuana use has done to young people, I have seen the abuse, I have seen what it’s done to families. It’s bad,” Leonhart said. “If confirmed as administrator, we would continue to enforce the federal drug laws.”
Yah, and I can say the same about alcohol, my uncle was a RAGING drunk and died at the age of 45 due to it! So should we turn around and bring back the 18 Amendment???
“Of The People,For The People,By The People” My Ass
““These legalization efforts sound good to people,” Sessions quipped. “They say, ‘We could just end the problem of drugs if we could just make it legal.’ But any country that’s tried that, Alaska and other places have tried it, have failed. It does not work,” Sessions said.”
Up to 1 oz of herb is legal in Alaska in the home.
Sessions sounds like a real retard. Alcohol kills thousands and tobacco kills 10s of thousands every year, why don’t we outlaw them?
with any luck the judges will dismiss cases on her it is after all up to the judge to decide if he’s even going to sit and listen to her crap
i think this behavior by one of our government ‘leaders’ is atrocious. this is what is really wrong with our country!
Villains will lie. They will use every means at their disposal to deceive others. It is what they do. In that context, the statements of the head of the DEA are not surprising. What would be surprising would be if any single statement were true or had even a tiny grain of truth. I would expect about the same level of discourse from the head of one of the Mexican cartel gangs.
It is surprising that the Democrats did not raise any objections, but they are scared for their political futures by the recent elections. The country will endure more suffering and financial loss due to stupidity and ignorance.
Government’s nature is to use force to control
peaceful people. Expecting them to do anything different is wishful thinking.
I propose the reform community establish the “Prohibition Paparazzi.” This group could be responsible for a constant presence in the lives of high profile prohibitionists, like this Michelle Leonhart, for the sole purpose of exposing any moral imperfections. Imagine an army of marijuana reform reporters following Michelle around all day waiting for her to do something wrong. She leaves the bar after a few drinks… the Paparazzi gets pictures and issues a press release. Michelle slaps her kids… press release. Michelle is spotted getting her prescription drugs… press release. Michelle is spotted with a strange man… press release. Get the idea?
It is time the reform community starts invading prohibitionists’ lives. We can bust these people and make their lives so miserable.
I hate the smell of dumbass in the morning. Vice is part and parcel to human existance, and denying it is pointless. The will of the people will not be unheard.
i dont understand how they say marijuana wont help the economy and stuff when they are unwilling to try it, we need less jagoffs in the government
This is so sad. Some times is seems hopeless.
“Obama’s DEA Nominee Pledges To Ignore Administration’s Medical Marijuana Policy”
I listened to the interview live and it sounded like a love fest. This appointment by Barry is an attempt to show the right that he’s tough on drugs and will give blow jobs to any republican that asks for one. Monica would have been proud. This is all on Barry. What a disappointment again.
The fact that she blocks MJ research tells you she knows what she is preaching is a lie. She is afraid of the truth coming out.
Time to move to an island an cut all the trees down an plant all cannabis an say F**k the DEA
2012 sounds like Palin is more on our sides as far as being able to smoke cannabis in our own home ,im votin her or Johnson from New Mexico anyone thts for it im votin .I really thought this is our country,land of the free,it should be called land of the fake. crooked gov.
I’m tired of hearing about this anti pot BS. IF YOU DON’T LIKE WEED YOU DONT HAVE TO SMOKE IT – but if you do then you should be able to do so WITHOUT FEAR OF ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT its called FREEDOM. FREEDOM includes the right to do whatever the hell you like with your own body as long you are an adult and not harming anyone else. Instead of enforcement lets educate people about drugs so they know about the effects and can make an informed decision about whether or not to use them.
I would like to know how the government gets out of backing up statement with fact. Drives me crazy.
this just brings us closer to civil war the sooner the better .
I think this Senator Sessions is from Alabama and a “member” of the “law and Order” clan. The other Senators probably have reasons to fear Mr. Sessions.
My opinion is that (Leonhart?) is taking talking points from Harry Anslinger which worked well for him, and continues to work to a befuddled government.
To them Marijuana is as dangerous as Heroin because it’s a schedual 1 “drug”. Hence, they see it breaking up families and dangerous to society as a whole.
The American Medical Association and the Veteran Affairs have indicated a reversal to their previous “philosophy” about Cannabis.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
wow what a douchebag, yet another idiot who thinks hes gonna get ahead by pushing marijuana down, man i hope he gets shot before he can ever be head of anything.
Law breakers are law breakers no matter where they are or what position they hold. While they were throwing the bums out – it seems they missed one.
I emailed my Senators about this issue, and of course they have done nothing (I’m looking at you, Dianne Feinstein! At least Barbara Boxer sent me a reply!). It’s truly sad how the DEA has become such a revered part of the US gov despite their abject failure at everything they do. They’d rubber-stamp anyone for that job.
Vote them all out. Starting with Obama in 2012!!!!
Do not let that woman in our lives, we have enough with all the other liars.
Newsflash: FDA has pulled Darvon/Darvocet off the U.S. market for risk of fatal heart rhythms. And they’ve been pushing that crap since 1957 for pain! Get real people. FREE THE WEED!! The natural god given herbal alternative you can grow in you friggin yard! CANNAPEACE
Hope you’ll watch this related video;
So then the only ones to speak up (and kiss the ring) are the ones who are “SOFT ON CORRUPTION”.
What a shock.
Cant wait for the sex tapes on you-tube. They’re obviously hot 4 each other.
haha! this happens when the so-called “change” president is at the office, hahaha, you americans have been cheated, BIG TIME.
Good job not voting yes on prop 19 you greedy bastard growers and med patients.
Prop19 wasnt perfect but the finer points could be re worked in a later legislation. Prop19 was ment to get a foot in the door and it was crafted in a way that the Federal laws were not in conflict and it would have stood up in the Supream court.
Now that the DEA won that small fight, they are bringing the war to your co-op’ grows.
You only thought of yourselves on Nov 2nd, and you shot yourselves in the foot in the process.
Congrats, MORONS!!!
I think obama could put everybody on medical marijuana instead of his health care.You know everyone should thank the DEA for destroying the pesky hemp plants cause they impregnate all the existing marijuana crops growing in the forest.
I don’t believe anything they say anymore. Unless the Federal Government changes the law, anybody can still get busted. Period. Protect our amendments and protect our freedom.
They just paid off the Amsterdam Govt to start making it illegal for Americans to go over there and hit the bong, Then this week when the Pacific Island declared Marijuana Legal, US is taking all money away that they are giving to them. Time magazine article, shows the FDA keeps trying to take it out of a Schedule 1. They have made it clear this time that it has medical value and needs to be studied. Wow, with all the medicines, antibacterial agent for MRSA, Hemp for rope, cures cancer, it seems like maybe there is another source behind the Obama Administration that is keeping it illegal; the same people who are sticking their hands in your pants you big Fn bullies. We are so on to you big brother, bring it on!
Boycott all Prohibition Profiteers from 1/1/11 to 4/20/11.
Stock up, share, learn to grow.
Stop giving money to Black Market Cartels, Gangs, and their Police State sponsors.
Unless it would severely affect your health, stop giving money the corrupted Gray Market Med-Pot industry.
If you spend money – but do not make money – in the marijuana trade, stop. Stop funding this war against yourself.
Keep using Cannabis if possible, but stop PAYING for it for as long as you can, starting with the NEW YEAR. What effect would a sizable drop in the money flow for for a whole quarter have on the business of selling pot?
Why not find out? Would it get people’s attention? Would it inspire change?
If at the same time you boycotted any legal substances you may also be using – alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, OTC or prescription drugs (within safety) – would it be even more effective?
WE THE PEOPLE – the cannabis USERS – will only know if we’re serious about making it happen OURSELVES. The system is rigged … we’re in lockdown.
YOUR power – your energy – is converted into money. You give your money (power) to the two sides fighting this war with guns … and we the people are caught in the middle with nothing but a PLANT. A plant that gives us health and happiness, but cannot give us victory. Not when the money used to purchase it is handed over to the Prohibition Profiteers, to pay for their armies, their propaganda, and their legal monopoly.
Please join me in a pause for the cause!
More to come …
We don’t have many friends up there on capitol hill. Time to ask your elected officials point blank “do you support the legalization of cannabis?” and vote accordingly.
United States wants to be like China in every way. It starts with mass obedience. The DEA will tell you what to believe or else lose your job, family, children, pets, money, property, hope, and freedom.
And you think it is about marijuana!?
It’s political cleansing.
That is how it is done. Read your history!
Michelle Leonhart is such a lowlife deceitful piece of feces. If there was a Satan it would be her.
Sarah Palin for 2012.
Sarah thinks its not a big deal to use in the privacy of your own home. She’s not your typical Republican/Democrat (elephant/donkey) clone. She enjoys life, she wants others to live in happiness, and enjoy the beautiful outdoors.
If she changes her stance it will be a different story.
Sarah you know where the votes to win 2012 are. They are right here within our constitutional rights. And not with arrogant prosecutions ruining peoples innocent lives at the expense of our tax dollars.
Hitler rose to power by using his persuasive powers to attack the Jewish people. What some in our Govt appear to be doing seems very similar. They lie, then create an enemy (real or imagined; clearly imagined in the case of pot users), then they find ways to attack. Michele Leonhart seems to be at the forefront of this assault against otherwise good freedom loving Americans!
One major thing we have, for now, in our favor is that it is ever more difficult for them to hide the truth because of the internet! This makes it hard for them to build up the giant base of support they need; but sadly, it seems that they are winning slowly but surely… We all need to remain ever-vigilant against the enemy of the people known as the DEA!
So much for Obama changing anything. I’ll never believe in the word change again(or Obama). That goes for accountability and transparency too. These politicians have ruined a lot of words.
The Problem with voting fascist war Obama out is you get triple fascist corporate war republicans. There is no way to win in the Usa. The choice is between corporate war fascist and corporate war fascists. We all need Canadian or Dutch spouses!
Joel is right the DEA is and will use the power to control us. They want us to take piss teast to get or renul our driver lince. It is time to start fight back.Its time we start haveing mass proteting in the streets. war war war
I was wondering if any body knows,Should a state wish to succeed from the federal union and no longer be under the control of the federal union,Could that succeeding state do as they wish?, even if the feds(union) do not wish to do it themselves.Would it be possible to form another union that actually dose make up its own rules and lives a democracy.where people do not buy people off with unethical intention.no one is forced to do time for smoking pot.Humans, not money will be put in charge.No one person or industry can own it.Medical infirmaries and homeopathic medicine will be the norm.We could take a good look at the advantages of natural medicine and explore its affordable use.Then we can sit back and watch all those who are opposed die off of curable diseases.
Wow, America just keeps getting shittier and shittier. So I guess now our constitution doesn’t mean anything and state’s rights and laws mean nothing to los federales. For the people? Yeah right, keep spoon feeding America’s youth your bullshit and brain wash them into indoctrinated little Bush juniors. Sigh, what a stupid government we are slaves to.
How about to protest being set up …we plan A passive response
A NATIONAL WEEK LONG strike FROM OUR TAX PAYING JOBS,but instead of traveling and buying gas we all plan to stay home AND CAMP OUT IN OUR BACK YARD WITH OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS,we could do this in the summer,when it was warm.Maybe we need to remind cooperate america that the opinion of the masses makes a difference.imagine if nobody showed up to work for a week…those people in congress and on wall street would be lost,revenue would be lost too. who would serve their danish?It would only be effective if it were on a massive scale and 46 percent is pretty massive.If 50 private gas station owners stayed home from work and closed their doors would be effective in those districts.but I don’t know,It all seems pretty legal,but I wonder how effective it would be in ruffling feathers and making any difference.
So Obama is supporting prohibition and in turn supporting organized crime.
Nothing new our own government in with the criminals… lmao Excuse me, are the criminals…
The solution is simple. VOTE OUT OBAMA. He’s proven to be the biggest waste of a vote and a hope. I voted for that man to lead sensibly and with respect to state rights. That’s it. I’m done defending him and I’m done voting for him. I hope those on this board make a hell of a fuss and make it clear to that turncoat in office that he won’t be back for a second term. This country is mirroring the fall of Rome and I for one hope to be long removed from the USA as soon as possible. Land of opportunity and justice my ass!
Like much of President Obama’s first term, this is extremely disheartening and deeply disturbing. I can’t begin to fathom the endless buffeting of the political currents that he has to weather just to tread water let alone make true progress, and the Republicants and their extraordinarily skilled Right Wing Noise Machine are so adept at pure lies, distortions of all kinds, and manufacturing nonsensical ‘controversies’ out of thin air, that every uphill battle is increased in difficulty by a thousand-fold. I voted for him and I would gladly do it again not only on his own merits but as a most emphatic repudiation of the ‘Country First’ flip-flop King Clown John McCain who is responsible for unleashing that pathetic brainless talking point word salad Pez dispenser, Sarah ‘the perpetual victim’ Palin. I live in Arizona, so that crypt keeper clown is one of my two Senators, along with the ultra-right-wing Jon Kyl. Do you think there is any subject (including this one) that I can write my senators about that they would ever give half a shit about my thoughts or concerns as a constituent? Fuck no. They don’t care. They know what is right and they’re going to do whatever they want to. Taken along with my ridiculous Congressman, Jeff Flake, the retarded king of Quixotic tilting against earmarks that constitute a tiny fraction of one percent of annual spending, I have absolutely ZERO representation in the federal government. The only way I’m going to get any is if I move somewhere else. Finally, I’d just like to say to Wisconsin: fuck you, motherfuckers! Those jackasses just voted out one of the most stand-up progressives our country had, the now former Senator Russ Feingold. Learn to Swim. Learn to Swim. Learn to Swim.
If the DEA were running American nuclear anti-proliferation policy, there could be a nuclear war going on and Michelle Leonhart would call it a signpost of our success at controlling proliferation, because so many nuclear weapons were being destroyed in the war.
#96 – You are an idiot sir. This is EXACTLY how the Republicrats want you to feel. You buy this faux partisan hackery so you keep on voting for the Dems, then blame all of their failing on the republicans. RIIIIGHT, it was the republicans who nominated Leonhart. It was the republicans who who tripled our troop presence in Afghanistan. It was the republicans who made Obama come out in favor of the TSA full body scanners. It was the republicans who made Obama INCREASE the pentagon budget PAST Bush levels. It was the republicans who are making Obama pledge to keep us in Afghanistan past 2014.
Get a clue. There is not one lick of a difference between republicans and democrats. They as a whole orchestrate these faux partisan quarrels while they are in bed with each other behind closed doors, to keep idiots like you keep on voting for the mainstream D’s or R’s, keeping them both in power.
A 12yo can go to a 7-11, and buy a COCAINE derivative preparation,(ORA-GEL), meant for use by INFANTS for teething pain. A dying CANCER patient has to live in constant fear of MIDNIGHT RAIDS,ARREST,and DEADLY HOME INVASION ROBBERIES , for their LEGAL use of MEDICAL CANNABIS.
And why does the DEA still consider INDUSTRIAL HEMP as a “SCHEDULE 1 NARCOTIC?
END THE MADNESS,LEGALIZE CANNABIS!
Wow! Obama really knows how to piss off the base who elected him to president. I guess I will not be voting for anyone next time, as I can see with this pathetic administration that it does not matter who you vote for in this country.
If she pledges to ignore the administrations policy, withdraw her nomination
I voted for President Obama, but never again. As much as I hated Bush, you knew what you were getting. President Obama is incredibly two faced.. He pledged transparency and change, yet he stood up yesterday and told all of us that we must submit to the TSA while his family gets special treatment and will never receive a pat down or ionizing radiation screening. He promised us change and transparency when it comes to foreign policy, and all we got was more war and more secrecy.
He promised sensible consideration and promised change when it comes to medical marijuana and the drug war. LIES.
Never again President Obama.
Yea, that CS lewis quote about Robber Barons being better leaders than those who torment us for our OWN good… keeps coming back.
Hell, if Palin WAS in charge… I’m starting to suspect it might be easier to just choose an idiot and trick them, than deal with a know-nothing know-it-all.
Fuckin wierd times.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. Voltaire
The rule of law has been subverted and has become the law of rule.
Those that rule the law will become zealots, jingoes, and hypocrites.
Raymond DiPasquale
The measures you favor are the major source of the evils you deplore.
Milton Freidman
Beware when the righteous prepare for the practice of evil.
— Kenneth Patchen
To whom it may concern -or- not concern.
Americans refuse to recognize government as a “just government with an unjust and inhumane law.” The American Policy negates compelling or competing governmental interests insofar as medicinal application is concerned.
February 9, 2009 Barack Obama
The President believes that federal resources should not be used to circumvent state laws, and he continues to appoint senior leadership to fill out the ranks of the federal government, he expects them to review their policies with that in mind.
Michele Leonart absolutely [does not] fit that description of leadership. Neither does her continued waste of federal resources on enforcement emphasis and police state tactics, best described as belligerent action, reduce government’s wastful spending. Her total disregard for direct orders, and her non-compliance of same, is ludacrous, unacceptable, and demonstrates her total lack of integrity called for by her suprior [insabordination].
So! I’m forced to ask – “Who the hell is running this dog and pony show?” A lawbreaker – no matter who, what, where, when or why – is a lawbreaker! If I were to practice preventative medicine – I would prevent Michele Leonart from being anywhere near California’s sovereign right to control a legal medicine in the state. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that – “cannabis is as legal as any drug.”
I read somewhere that a WEED is an unwanted plant. Leonhart, Obama, Sessions, and the DOJ all think Cannabis is a dangerous WEED and unwanted.
It seems that Ms. Leonhart is doing what is best for her own career rather that the American people. Secondly, Marijauna has ruined no families that I know, but state prosecution for it’s use sure has.She is using broad generalities because she has no evidence or even an anecdote. I could say that money has ruined families but we wouldn’t go back to trading beads for shells would we? I’ll wager there’s a pharmeceutical company lining in the pockets of her dress suit.
106 Naga Sadhu
You’ve got it reversed! Leonart, Obama, Sessions, and the DOJ are the unwanted weeds. The dangerous weed that they refer to is “The most nutritious plant [food]known to man – and – its medicinal properties and applications are equally as great. These pot-phobic prohibs just don’t know their plants from a hole in the ground. Say a prayer for them – because – they really, really need one. They really do!
107 Luke
Save your seeds – you’ll need them to grow food when the time comes. God and pot will be the world’s salvation.
rumor has it that alot of important officials will be watching the ratings of this… lets overwhelm them?!!?!!?!?!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114552811944141
I can agree “ma rijua na” was not the legal phrase DEA
did have an old BON State Dept affected reason to be a
“War on Crime” [Drugs] provider of former prohibit-ion
and I don’t agree “Republican Title of Control to Ban:
Common Canna[Ma] and Republic Use of Prohibit Funding”
uh anyway ,. I don’t agree the Republic Foreign Advise
run our country ., so why would they run the US Policy
on Drug and Danger[ous] Quality of Supply” ./. Cartel,
Violence was , my opinion , promoted by Republic impos
[means imposters with Fake Exec] and the clone of thot
(the facsimile of thought : regulation) was not proper.
Gotta love the fake “disillusioned Obama voters” switching to SP. LOL! Just imagine, for a moment, what will constitute thought crime under a Palin kleptocracy. If you think Dick Cheney thinks (ok, knows) he’s above the law… But the other Joel is on the right track: The China model is the neocon wet dream for America: A small super-rich, overclass controlling a mostly symbolic government with an opaque bureaucracy, a politicized and capriciously enforced legal system (unchallenged by a lap-dog media) in the glorious pursuit of “free markets”. All we need is a thin-skinned megalomaniac with a avid following of dim-wit know-nothings and we can have our very own Cultural Revolution. Oh, wait!
Regarding the current liberalization of many state (but not Federal) marijuana laws: “IT’S A TRAP!”
There. I said it.
Hi again. Cannabis is not a drug. The Federal Medicinal
Cannabis Program will allow leniency toward new regional
rather than State by State medmana laws ., I am cannabis
activist with a small office at Eastern Kansas [NORML] 🙂
and I want Leonhart to realize not all “ma rijua na” and
medicinal plant users are on ,. nor want “drugs”. Games
[actual role playing games] show us basic ‘alignment’ is
the basis [Good] [Neutral] [Evil] :: Common dishearten
~ing activists are not so Good ., more likely to want uh
street drugs and more likely to try ‘hard drugs’ . . . .
What are you ? Will you respect Obama. He does his best.
This woman stands for everything that is wrong with MMJ policy. Leonhart is the product of 80 years of brainwashing, it is unfortunate that there’s no chance of an intelligent thought popping into that tiny brain of hers.
We need to do something serious to stop this madness against the people. We need a revolution. I’ve never seen such proof of that then what I’m seeing right here. Its time the american people stop taking this abuse.
Obama has to go. He is not the person we thought he was. Change my ass. He is just another shill, and yes, I voted for him. He refers to marijuana activists as “internet trolls”. I get it. Lame Duck.
OK. Lame Duck session means the Republican vote to now
suspend the rules and pass . a bill or amendment will
be the ruling both parties of both legislatures agree
with money oriented voting ., the concedence of the
party en voting standard to show the Republic false
domain with a dominion wanting new Intl Monetary Fund
[IMF] will not !! allow the new improper IMF : Climate
Problem and Disaster Relief Money Available to Begin
Republic[en] Promise the Funding will be Given to the
Thought of Global Warming Saved. .. will not be wanted
with the Tea Party constituents on Republican ‘ticket’
now wanting new accord to Concede National Legislature
rather than allow new Republic[en] Laundering of newer
money they want to fund FEMA Disaster , Global Warming
and continued [next administration falsley] embezzle a
continued wartime fund to realize the Tea Party was in
the midst of catching the Republic embezzle foundation
and now allow a beginning vote after midterm elections
to NOT allow Climate Problem and Suspended Rules Anew
Reason will be : “stopping the vote debate means now
stopping the embezzled funding” , “stopping the [nerd]
debate {giving up on “the rope” ,. OK you win} means a
lack of Republican bi-partisan “struggle” funding so..
the “we give in you win this one” attitude was in ways
it will Concede the Republic ., and disavow the ten yr
[year] measure to now disallow ‘Suspenpol’ so it won’t
allow IMF Choice by Foreign Effect Republic.. thereby,
Lame Duck .. actual Democracy won’t play “javelin toss”
with a Lame Duck Republic noted as : “Throwing the new
session with improper Republic[en] Purchase”, So There.
My opinion , stop telling off Obama.. he’s Awesome . .
Look for a better beginning the week Monday after Dec.
11th. You will be happier without ‘drug complaint’ !!
Thanks, not trying to rile up.. Try watching C~SPAN ..
Brian post 119 – WTF??? Try english.
man.I hate to seem silly but I didn’t understand one bit of all that.
On , this so called women Leonhart, for DEA, NO,NO,NO!Hell no!
Obama has lost his mind !!!!!!!!! What a sad state of affairs we have ,when the only person we have is a so called cannabis hater. We no not want or need this woman in OUR goverment. Why can’t we vote on this and alot of other things .We should know alot more on what is happening in our goverment. But everything is such a big secert! The left hand, dosen’t know what the right hand is doing.
The reason why those against have the upper hand is because people who have steady jobs with the government are afraid of reprisal for speaking out against the travesty that is happening right before our eyes. Marijuana is illegal because it destroys young peoples lives? Please…What about alcohol? what about Oxycontin or Ritalin? What about tobacco products? These people that are being put into these powerful positions are all just puppets that have NO CLOUT and absolutely NO BUSINESS in those high ranked positions. I am ashamed of the system. Proud of America, but ashamed of the DEA position on moving forward. This is preposterous!
This just goes to show you what years and years of propaganda will do to the state of a nation.
Use a gun to kill for your country it honorable
use a gun to protect yourself its self defense
use a gun to harm someone its a crime.
use marijuana responsibily or for medicinal benefit and your a criminal. Who even knows what to believe anymore????
“In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble”
she can`t just go and ignore that shit….legalization is the way to go…if you think it`s not then you are simply ignorant and can go to hell. kthx
What the fuck is wrong with Obama? He pledged change but lately he’s been completely caving in to the right, especially by trying to nominate a DEA head who favors the same draconian drug war policies as the bush administration. Apparently the word change doesn’t mean shit in America any more.
I WILL FIGHT MY GOVERNMENT TIL THE DAY I DIE!!!
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All the government is shit and everyone in it is a cunt!
Fuck these people! All politicians suck the devil’s dick in hell!
Don’t worry. A politicians pledge IS NOT a promise. More like a lie you’re supposed to believe until their actions prove they’re lying. They don’t make ‘promises’, but pledges. Fine line, I know, but ask any politician. They obviously know the difference.
don’t give up… remember the beatles said “a splended time is guaranteed for all”
im not voting for obama our anybody else leave us alone go after coke our herion meth drug cartels why cant mom and pop grow and dispense medical marijuana i guess ur against americans making money rich get richer why we suffer thenks for nothing mr.obama u needto look in the mirror a american of the usa trying to raise my family
Sue the Federal Government.
I live in florida, and suffer from chronic pain. I take large doses of opiates for the neck and neuropathic pain down my arms and legs, from a helmet to helmet football injury with broken first rib at the time (19830.
how and where? can i try medical marijuana to know if it will help me. Is there anything I can do, or any place to go outside of Amsterdam to try medical marijuana?
Please help, any information if appreciated
I also live in Florida. We have some of the harshest laws regarding drugs in this country. To answer your question directly NO you are not permitted MJ of any sort in the State of FL. You will go directly to jail if they dont shoot you first.
As far as where you could go, someone else will have to address that. As far as I know or believe, every state that has approved Medical requires that you be a resident to have access.
of the people by the people means nothing this woman if elected by the people would never make it to first base anyone who smokes pot knows that it is not dangerous how long can the people ignore the evil of alchohol how many familys destroyed how many adds selling that poison to our kids and friends it makes me sick marijuanna kills noone I voted for obama how can he just let us down like that this woman is obviously evil herself and needs the big dropkick the people who uphold these archaic laws are just afraid of losing their jobs why cant law enforcment concentrate on real criminals murderers people who hurt others it easy to concentrate on victimless crimes real police work is hard busting the kid selling weed on the corner is a slam dunk compaired to real police work solveing real crimes.take away their bread and butter and noone is in prison its time to vote out all these people who oppose the peoples will getting sick just writting about it i need a joint we need to rally around NORML due the things ness to bring the power of what is right back to the people not to the stuffed shirts that make promises and break them look at all the violence surrounding prohibition many people died before booze was legalized
to bad pot doesnt encite vio
People, if you don’t like this idiocy, you have a choice. His name is Dr. Ron Paul. Individual freedom. States’ rights. Balanced budget. No foreign ‘police actions’. Legal cannabis. He will follow the Constitution of the United States. Common sense. Get the word out, and vote for Ron Paul. Now is your chance to make a difference.
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I think that Pres. Obama should step down now before He gets HAARRP all riled up and starts the new madrid a crackin just so he can feel good about dumpin Louisanna’s bayou country into the ocean, where as all the oil that that was supposedly capped off at deepwater horizon, is actually STILL pouring into the Gulf of Mexico …. As the planes take off in the evening to spray CORREXIT on the gulf to keep the oil down at the bottom, out of site from our BP Hatin’ EYES!!!!!
Lest us not forget the men that died the day of DWH fire and explosion. And as I understand it, there has been no firings, dismissiles, or manslaughter charges filed concerning the deaths of said BP employees…. You know who was at fault… We know who should take responsibility for the that whole mess…but…. there is still time for an alien encounter… or maybe a federal collaps of our economy….Relax smoke another joint and watch Nibiro come in for that Extinction Level Event…(ELE).. that nobody is talking about…. I just hope david Sayers shows up on my doorstep soon with MY PCH CHECK that he keeps telling me Ive practically already WON…
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