Obama just lost all the votes from the pot smokers on the west coast

[OUHOMER]

http://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-fe...202853739.html

no more medical pot

[OUHOMER]

I will post it for you

..SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal prosecutors have launched a crackdown on pot dispensaries in California, warning the stores they must shut down in 45 days or face criminal charges and confiscation of their property even if they are operating legally under the state's 15-year-old medical marijuana law.

In an escalation of the ongoing conflict between the U.S. government and the nation's burgeoning medical marijuana industry, California's four U.S. attorneys sent letters Wednesday and Thursday notifying at least 16 pot shops or their landlords that they are violating federal drug laws, even though medical marijuana is legal in California. The attorneys are scheduled to announce their coordinated crackdown at a Friday news conference.

Their offices refused to confirm the closure orders. The Associated Press obtained copies of the letters that a prosecutor sent to 12 San Diego dispensaries. They state 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," letters signed by U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy in San Diego read. "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."

The move comes a little more than two months after the Obama administration toughened its stand on medical marijuana following a two-year period during which federal officials had indicated they would not move aggressively against dispensaries in compliance with laws in the 16 states where pot is legal for people with doctors' recommendations.

The Department of Justice issued a policy memo to federal prosecutors in late June stating that marijuana dispensaries and licensed growers in states with medical marijuana laws could face prosecution for violating federal drug and money-laundering laws. The effort to shutter California dispensaries appears to be the most far-reaching effort so far to put that guidance into action.

"This really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. The Administration is simply making good on multiple threats issued since President Obama took office," Kevin Sabet, a former adviser to the president's drug czar who is a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Substance Abuse Solutions. "The challenge is to balance the scarcity of law enforcement resources and the sanctity of this country's medication approval process. It seems like the Administration is simply making good on multiple statements made previously to appropriately strike that balance."

Greg Anton, a lawyer who represents a Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana, said the 14-year-old dispensary's landlord received an "extremely threatening" letter Wednesday invoking a federal law that imposes additional penalties for selling drugs within 1,000 feet of schools, parks and playgrounds.

The landlord was ordered to evict the pot club or risk imprisonment, plus forfeiture of the property and all the rent he has collected while the dispensary has been in business, Anton said.

The Marin Alliance's founder "has been paying state and federal taxes for 14 years, and they have cashed all the checks," he said. "All I hear from Obama is whining about his budget, but he has money to do this which will actually reduce revenues."

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[MR2-Sooner86]

Legalize it.

[SicEmBaylor]

Ridiculous.

The state of California should be free to do whatever the f'k it wants within its own borders without having the jack booted Federal thugs marching into the state like the Wehrmacht conquering Paris.

[okie52]

So Obama will prosecute potheads but won't do anything about sanctuary cities or illegals.

[marfacowboy]

Way to go, Obomba. Glad we're cracking down on those pot smokers. Maybe he should watch the PBS special on prohibition. He wouldn't look nearly as stupid.

[TUSooner]

So now Obama rejects all the good (libertarian) aspects of modern liberalism and embraces its worst aspects (that reckless health care plan) as well as the worst aspects of neo-conservatism (hawkism, puritanism, and bailing out stupid banks). He gots nuthin'.

[OUHOMER]

So Obama will prosecute potheads but won't do anything about sanctuary cities or illegals.

exactly what i was thinking. No need to enforce all the laws at once, i guess

[sappstuf]

This won't hurt Obama too much. Those potheads can never remember what day the election is on anyway...

[okie52]

exactly what i was thinking. No need to enforce all the laws at once, i guess

Hopefully he doesn't call out the drones.

[Serge Ibaka]

Why only California?

[Caboose]

This won't hurt Obama too much. Those potheads can never remember what day the election is on anyway...

There are certain demographics that are going to vote for Obama regardless of what he does. I don't see this hurting him.

[SanJoaquinSooner]

So Obama will prosecute potheads but won't do anything about sanctuary cities or illegals.

more lies.

They broke the record on the number of deportations for the third year in a row....over 400,000 deportation per year.

How many of you dope heads did he convict?

[JohnnyMack]

Obama. Traitor to his party.

[SicEmBaylor]

This won't hurt Obama too much. Those potheads can never remember what day the election is on anyway...

This is actually true. I remember watching CNN on election night in '08 when one of their reporters was at a group having a watch party in support of that state referendum on legalizing pot. Of course everyone there was high as a kit and passing around joints right in front of the camera. The reporter goes around asking them about the election and almost everyone he talked to forgot to actually vote. They were too high to turn out.

[SanJoaquinSooner]

This is actually true. I remember watching CNN on election night in '08 when one of their reporters was at a group having a watch party in support of that state referendum on legalizing pot. Of course everyone there was high as a kit and passing around joints right in front of the camera. The reporter goes around asking them about the election and almost everyone he talked to forgot to actually vote. They were too high to turn out.

and of course California voters defeated Prop 19, that attempted to legalize pot, in spite of federal law.

[diverdog]

Obama. Traitor to his party.

Oh there are just as many right wingers who do drugs as lgeft wingers. Surely Rush and W prove that point.

[sappstuf]

Oh there are just as many right wingers who do drugs as lgeft wingers. Surely Rush and W prove that point.

Ted Kennedy snickers from beyond the grave at those two amateurs.

[TUSooner]

So Obama will prosecute potheads but won't do anything about sanctuary cities or illegals.

Where do you get this horse-*** "information"? That's just wrong. Federal courts, especially in Texas, are jam-packed will illegal alien prosecutions. I see this with my own 2 eyes every workday. Stop believing BS propaganda just because you want agree with it.

[pphilfran]

Where do you get this horse-*** "information"? That's just wrong. Federal courts, especially in Texas, are jam-packed will illegal alien prosecutions. I see this with my own 2 eyes every workday. Stop believing BS propaganda just because you want agree with it.

Sanctuary cities?