Thread: Obama FOOLED you all! pwned!

Medical marijuana Supporters 'Outraged' By Obama's DEA Chief

Medical marijuana supporters say they are "outraged" over President Obama's re-appointment of Bush Administration holdover Michele Leonhart as chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).


"The retention of this Bush-era holdover is a profound disappointment to all of us who hoped that Obama would bring meaningful change to Washington," lamented Dale Gieringer, director of California NORML (National Organization for the Reform of marijuana Laws).

​Leonhart is to blame for having blocked the approval of a medical marijuana research garden requested by leading researcher Dr. Lyle Craker at the University of Massachusetts, overruling a decision by DEA administrative law judge Mary Ellen Bittner.

​Leonhart's action effectively blocked the development of marijuana for FDA approval, since without licensed producers FDA development and approval are impossible.


"If there's one thing on which supporters and critics of medical marijuana agree, it's the need for FDA studies," Gieringer said.


"This appointment calls into question whether the administration has any desire to move towards FDA regulation or abandon the bankrupt policies of its predecessors."


California NORML is calling on the U.S. Senate to "reconsider" Leonhart's nomination in view of her damaging -- and ongoing -- opposition to medical marijuana research.

Originally Posted by buttery420

Yep the only way we'll ever get true freedom is through revolution. Fuck the republicans, fuck the democrats and any other political party.

Amen to that buttery420!!!!!

Lets not lay down and take it.. Get on the move because EVERYONES at risk http://mmjspots.com/marijuana-legali...tive-petitions

it's like we learned from jon stewart - obama is not a magic negro..!
change isn't going to come from the top down - the states will all have to change one by one before the federal government does anything at all...

Originally Posted by constructionpig

I don't think the Federal Government has a clue what the public wants. Obama is just a Jimmy Carter of a different color.

yeah man just another puppet for the banksters! i blame the majority for not payin any attention, "oh let go GREEN! but fuck hemp... fools i tell you fools!

Obama openly (on TV even) stated that the Federal government would NOT go after legitimate MMJ patients or thier caregivers. So WHY did the DEA JUST raid a local laboratory that did potency testing for dispensaries? Regular patients are next, mark my words.
Medical-pot advocates riled over federal raid of Denver lab

Federal drug-enforcement agents earlier this week seized medical-marijuana samples from a Denver lab that does potency testing for dispensaries, in what cannabis advocates say is an instance of continued official harassment of the medical-marijuana industry.
The raid at Full Spectrum Laboratories, just north of downtown Denver, occurred Wednesday, said Betty Aldworth, the lab's outreach director. She said agents took dozens of medical-marijuana samples — either small pieces of plants or test tubes of "extraction fluid" — but left the lab's equipment and did not arrest anyone.
Neither a Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman nor a U.S. attorney's office spokesman would confirm or deny that the raid took place.

Documents that would reveal why federal authorities targeted the lab were not available Thursday.
"We cannot comment on ongoing federal investigations," DEA spokesman Mike Turner said.
Rob Corry, an attorney for the lab, also declined to comment.
Aldworth said lab employees are baffled as to why DEA agents would raid the lab. She said the lab is designated as a caregiver for several medical-marijuana patients in the state.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced last year that federal authorities would not bother people operating in compliance with their state's medical-marijuana laws, but would continue to pursue anyone authorities believed were using the laws as cover for more nefarious activities.
"The advice that we received suggested we were doing everything we needed and more to be legal," Aldworth said.
The lab, which opened in November, conducts tests on different marijuana strains to determine their potency and help dispensaries provide dosing guidelines for patients.
"It seemed, based on their questioning, they thought we were doing other things here," Aldworth said.
Meanwhile on Thursday, lawyers for the city of Centennial and a dispensary the city ordered shuttered prepared for round two of their legal fight in an Arapahoe County courtroom.
In December, Judge Christopher Cross ruled that Centennial improperly cited federal law in shutting down the dispensary, CannaMart.
Since the ruling, though, Centennial has prevented CannaMart from reopening, arguing that its current location isn't zoned for a dispensary and that the city's moratorium on new dispensaries prevents it from moving elsewhere.
Centennial attorney Andrew Nathan said the city was acting in good faith. But CannaMart attorney Bob Hoban argued that those conditions effectively continued the ban, and he asked Cross to intervene. Cross declined, saying the zoning and moratorium issues weren't brought up in CannaMart's original lawsuit.
"If they choose a different reason for banning it . . . that's a different issue, and that's not before the court," Cross said.
CannaMart's attorneys then vowed to amend their lawsuit to include the new issues, setting up another clash in the ongoing battle.

I'm so sick and tired of this bullshit. You know what I'm more sick of Mac?! All of these scared or ignorant people that are just going to lay down with their face to the ground and not say or actually DO a damn this about this. I for one will be writing my letters and virtually bombarding senators and congressmen with more emails than they can handle. I could care less if they read them or not. That's not the point. The point is to make it known that WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!! THAT WE WILL NOT BURY OUR HEADS. Instead we will stand up for our rights that we all deserve (except the aliens, lol) we will stand up for the rights that I have personally fought for. I have been there and seen face to face, men die fighting for these the so called "RIGHTS" that the government THINKS they have given us. Well it's time to overcome and show them what TRUE RIGHTS are! Get ready because the thread is coming where people will have all of the information they need to contact anyone they can think of. Do you know what activist means people? It means " a doctrine or practice that emphasizes direct vigorous action especially in support of or opposition to one side of a controversial issue.