Who runs the DEA? Obama very close to either breaking promise or setting precedent...

[BrownTown]

Of course you're completely wrong at the state level. But perhaps you thought at the Federal level?

Wrong again:
Federal LEGAL Medical Cannabis

And why is the dept of health and human services holding a patent on Cannabanoids??
Link

I eagerly wait your defense of your statement.

If something is legal by state law and illegal by federal law then it is still ILLEGAL. Just because your only breaking one law instead of two doesn't mean you aren't breaking the law. As for the link on the marijuana research, I was actually going to post a disclaimer that it wasn't 100% true that it is illegal due to some tiny research groups, but I figured people would be smart enough not to try to play stupid technicalities. Saying that MJ is legal because some small research division is working on it is like saying anthrax is legal because the government has some small research division working on it.

 

[JSt0rm]

I would love to live in a country where the feds could arrest anybody they want for marijuana use but nobody on any jury would convict.

that would be great.

visualize a special prosecutor.

 

[nobodyknows]

Of course you're completely wrong at the state level. But perhaps you thought at the Federal level?

Wrong again:
Federal LEGAL Medical Cannabis

I wouldn't call seven patients grandfathered in as proof that medical marijuana is legal at the federal level.

The settlement in Randall v. U.S. became the legal basis for the FDA's Compassionate IND program. Initially only available to patients afflicted by marijuana-responsive disorders and orphan drugs, the concept was expanded to include HIV-positive patients in the mid-1980s. Due to the growing number of AIDS patients throughout the late 1980s and the resulting numbers of patients who joined the Compassionate IND program, the George H. W. Bush administration closed the program down in 1992. At its peak, the program had thirty active patients.

[edit] Compassionate IND today
The remaining patients in the Compassionate IND program were grandfathered in. There are only seven surviving patients in the program today (two remain anonymous). What follows is a table with details of the five surviving patients who are not anonymous, and details of the case as known relating to each patient.

My neighbor across the street has had MS for years. They lost there farm and all their investments. Theye had to move to town and he got a job at the ethanol plant. She babysat a few kids, but her MS kept getting worse and she had to quit. She got depressed and tried to OD on some pills.

Well, she ended up in the state mental hospital for a while but is home now and seems to be doing really good. They put jer on some marijuana pill? I assume it has THC in it? Anywy, she resisted taking them at first but now she swerars by them and is like a different person, much, much, happier.

 

[EagleKeeper]

More facts are needed. Was he actually in compliance with the CO state law? Even if he was I can see why the DEA busted him. Think about it, if word gets out how easy it is to make money in your own basement, CO quickly becomes the marijuana capital of america and the DEA would have its hands full. That being said, the DEA should stick to busting real criminals like Obama mentioned. Somehow I feel that was only honey for the ear....

Colorado is clarifying the Medical MJ law such that

1) Dispensaries must be licensed by the municipality

2) Dispensaries must grow their own supply - no longer able to by it from a profiteerer.

 

[Fern]

Sure I support innocent until presumed guilty. But that's a matter for the courts. The job of law enforcement, DEA or otherwise, is to arrest people when they THINK they are breaking the law, then an impartial court can decide if they really were or not. You're jumping all over the DEA for what they did, with your justification being that the folks that were busted were OBVIOUSLY in compliance with the law.

That's not how law enforcement works.

So, when the DEA busts you it's for a state offense, not federal?

I'm under the impression they get you for federal crimes, and that you'll be prosecuted in federal court. If so, your remarks about whether or not they were in compliance with state law miss the mark. State compliance will not be determined in a federal court. Now if you're saying the feds won't bust you unless they think you've run afoul of state law, well who are they to rule on state law (without judge & jury too)?

Fern