BadDog40
Well-Known Member
I think this pretty much seals the deal. MSNBC has picked up on Eric Holders remarks about ending medical raids so if Obama was having any second thoughts about this I doubt he will now.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29433708/
DEA to halt medical marijuana raids
Holder confirms states to have final say on use of drug for pain control
Supporters of programs to provide legal marijuana to patients with painful medical conditions are celebrating Attorney General Eric Holders statement this week that the Drug Enforcement Administration would end its raids on state-approved marijuana dispensaries.
Federal raids on medical marijuana distributors continued at least into the second week of Barack Obamas presidency, when federal agents shut down at least two dispensaries in California on Feb. 3.
Holder was asked about those raids Wednesday in Santa Ana, Calif., at a news conference that was called to announce the arrests of 755 people in a nationwide crackdown on the U.S. operations of Mexican drug cartels. He said such operations would no longer be conducted.
What the president said during the campaign ... will be consistent with what we will be doing here in law enforcement, he said. What (Obama) said during the campaign ... is now American policy. Obama indicated during the presidential campaign that he supported the controlled use of marijuana for medical purposes, saying he saw no difference between medical marijuana and other pain-control drugs.
My attitude is if the science and the doctors suggest that the best palliative care and the way to relieve pain and suffering is medical marijuana, then thats something Im open to, Obama said in November 2007 at a campaign stop in Audubon, Iowa. Theres no difference between that and morphine when it comes to just giving people relief from pain.
White House spokesman Nick Shapiro hinted at the policy shift shortly after the California raids, telling The Washington Times that the dispensaries were legal in California and that the Obama administrations stance was that federal resources should not be used to circumvent state laws.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29433708/
DEA to halt medical marijuana raids
Holder confirms states to have final say on use of drug for pain control
Supporters of programs to provide legal marijuana to patients with painful medical conditions are celebrating Attorney General Eric Holders statement this week that the Drug Enforcement Administration would end its raids on state-approved marijuana dispensaries.
Federal raids on medical marijuana distributors continued at least into the second week of Barack Obamas presidency, when federal agents shut down at least two dispensaries in California on Feb. 3.
Holder was asked about those raids Wednesday in Santa Ana, Calif., at a news conference that was called to announce the arrests of 755 people in a nationwide crackdown on the U.S. operations of Mexican drug cartels. He said such operations would no longer be conducted.
What the president said during the campaign ... will be consistent with what we will be doing here in law enforcement, he said. What (Obama) said during the campaign ... is now American policy. Obama indicated during the presidential campaign that he supported the controlled use of marijuana for medical purposes, saying he saw no difference between medical marijuana and other pain-control drugs.
My attitude is if the science and the doctors suggest that the best palliative care and the way to relieve pain and suffering is medical marijuana, then thats something Im open to, Obama said in November 2007 at a campaign stop in Audubon, Iowa. Theres no difference between that and morphine when it comes to just giving people relief from pain.
White House spokesman Nick Shapiro hinted at the policy shift shortly after the California raids, telling The Washington Times that the dispensaries were legal in California and that the Obama administrations stance was that federal resources should not be used to circumvent state laws.