What Part of ‘Change’ Does DEA not Understand?

[iowaaurora 10+ year member]

Dear ASA Supporter,

They must think we’re just going to sit back and take it.

Yesterday, the DEA simultaneously raided four medical cannabis dispensing collectives in Los Angeles. This is the second time, in as many weeks, that the DEA has defied President Obama’s campaign pledges to not use federal resources to undermine state medical cannabis laws.

Our community is in an uproar and we are not going to take this lying down! We need you to ACT!.

The L.A. Times even published an article suggesting that maybe DEA hadn’t gotten the memo that Bush is out?

The U.S. Senate just confirmed Attorney General Eric Holder to lead the Department of Justice under the Obama Administration. We expect this to be the FIRST and LAST of the DEA raids under Eric Holder’s leadership. President Obama said he would stop the raids, and we aim to hold him to his word.

Enough is enough! Please make two short phone calls so that both the President and the Attorney General know that people are sick and tired of DEA interference and intimidation in medical cannabis states. Tell your federal government that you will not tolerate wasteful spending by having DEA harass innocent civilians with smash and grab tactics.

First call President Obama at (202) 456-1111, and then call Attorney General Eric Holder at (202) 353-1555. Be sure to call during office hours, Monday – Friday, 9am -5pm.

Use this script for both:

"Hi, my name is ___________. For the second time under President Obama, the DEA conducted raids on multiple medical marijuana dispensaries in California, despite the President’s pledge to end federal threats, intimidation, and interference in states that have medical marijuana laws. Patients and providers should not have to live in fear of the DEA. Please help us and stop these raids now!."

This is our chance under President Obama. We have to get his attention, and we need your help.

Sincerely,

George Pappas

Field Coordinator

Americans for Safe Access

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[iowaaurora 10+ year member]

post what you like

but please call if you would

you can show your support for the raids aswell but the more calls they get the better

call every day

 

[97gp 5,000+ posts]

Stupid hippies

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

Technically its still illegal at a federal level.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

Dude 3/4 of the people who use that for "medical purposes" do not even have a real medical reason to use it. 20/20 did a special where they sent in a teenager to a doctor over headaches and to get prescribed pot he had to pay 185 bucks. Wasn't a doctor's recommendation it was the kid outright wanting pot.

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

But, in the spirit of this thread I'll post a quote from another forum that I frequent.

“They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do, just as well. You just realize that it's not worth the fu*king effort. There is a difference.”- Bill Hicks

“One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.”

- Norman Mailer

“Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?”

- P.J. O'Rourke

“Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.”

- William F. Buckley

“Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, "Thank you?"”

- Jimmy Fallon :lol:

"I used to smoke marijuana. But I'll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening - or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early midafternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . . But never at dusk."

- Steve Martin

"Casual drug users should be taken out and shot."

- Darryl Gates, Head of Los Angeles Police Department, United States Senate Judiciary Committee (1990) :hay:

"Make the most of the Indian Hemp Seed and sow it everywhere."

- George Washington

"The drug is really quite a remarkably safe one for humans, although it is really quite a dangerous one for mice and they should not use it."

- J.W.D Henderson, Director of the Bureau of Human Drugs, Health and Welfare, Canada :rolllaugh:

"How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured...No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer..."

- Harry J. Anslinger, Commissioner of the US Bureau of Narcotics 1930-1962

"Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit... unnatural?"

- Bill Hicks

"Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are."

- Matt Lauer

"The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous."

- Jack Herer :agreement6:

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

Sweet! Swat came in and disrespected your weed!

 

[PaulThompson229 10+ year member]

Meh, I support legalization and taxation, it would create many jobs in our ever failing economy and would decrease government spending on law enforcement and paying to keep minor offenders in prison, it would also create more space in our overcrowded prison system for people who commited "real" crimes.

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

Meh, I support legalization and taxation, it would create many jobs in our ever failing economy and would decrease government spending on law enforcement and paying to keep minor offenders in prison, it would also create more space in our overcrowded prison system for people who commited "real" crimes.

I honestly think so too. The government could make so much money from simply taxing it like they do alcohol or cigarettes.

And the jobs that it would create would be ridiculous.

 

[NDMstang65 10+ year member]

I honestly think so too. The government could make so much money from simply taxing it like they do alcohol or cigarettes.
And the jobs that it would create would be ridiculous.

Not to mention the textile industry as well...

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

Not to mention the textile industry as well...

and the Cheetoh and other munchie industry.

Problem is taxing something that is so easy to grow

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

and the Cheetoh and other munchie industry.
Problem is taxing something that is so easy to grow

True. But I think once people will be able to go to a store rather than asking some shady guy that you know of, things would be substantially different. And the sheer revenue that could be seen from that would be very interesting.

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

I forgot all about the munchie industry. Cookies, pizza, chips, soda, and fast food. Wow the possibilities.

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

post what you like but please call if you would

you can show your support for the raids aswell but the more calls they get the better

call every day

Stupid pothead.

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

Who's to say they weren't selling this poison illegally too?