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skatealex2 said:
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    Holder did not spell out exactly who no longer would face the prospect of raids by the Drug Enforcement Administration. But he was quick to add that law enforcement officers will target anyone who tries to “use medical marijuana laws as a shield” for illegal activity.

    “Given the limited resources that we have, our focus will be on people, organizations that are growing, cultivating substantial amounts of marijuana and doing so in a way that’s inconsistent with federal and state law,” the attorney general said.

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skatealex2 said:
I can smell change

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I dont, since there's not to be any change in federal law, obama
has said he has no intention on changing the laws and they'll
target people that grow in a way that's inconsistent with
federal law, which by the way it's illegal to possess,
distribute, cultivate or even possess seeds under federal law.
it would appear that this is just another popularity ploy

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    Holder did not spell out exactly who no longer would face the prospect of raids by the Drug Enforcement Administration. But he was quick to add that law enforcement officers will target anyone who tries to �use medical marijuana laws as a shield� for illegal activity.

    �Given the limited resources that we have, our focus will be on people, organizations that are growing, cultivating substantial amounts of marijuana and doing so in a way that�s inconsistent with federal and state law,� the attorney general said.

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Holder wanted "minimum sentences of 18 months for first-time convicted drug dealers, 36 months for the second time and 72 months for every conviction thereafter." He also wanted to "make the penalty for distribution and possession with intent to distribute marijuana a felony, punishable with up to a five-year sentence." The D.C. Council made the latter Holder-endorsed change in 2000. Holder thought New York City's irrational, unjust crackdown on pot smokers was a fine idea and worth emulating, saying "we have too long taken the view that what we would term to be minor crimes are not important." His rhetoric on the seriousness of marijuana offenses was indistinguishable from that of the most zealous Republican drug warrior:

"The truth of the matter is that marijuana is a significant problem for the city....Crack cocaine still drives most of the violence in this city, but marijuana violence is increasing. We need to nip it in the bud."

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1upshroom said:
We need to hit around 25 to 26 states before the federal gov would ever be persuaded to change the laws.

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1upshroom said:
We need to hit around 25 to 26 states before the federal gov would ever be persuaded to change the laws.

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it's taken 15 years to get 13 states to change their laws,
that's just from the first state making the decision, it would
have been 14 but alaska has re criminalized the drug, well the
problem is, people arent pushing the federal government hard
enough, we dont need to wait another 15 years, we dont need to
wait for another 12 states, we as a people need to make our
voices heard and that's not going to happen when everyone keeps
worshiping Obama as the new messiah because he told holder to
give some vague speech about some vagueness in enforcement, if
the federal government is getting out of the pot bust business,
the we need to push them to make the laws reflect that


if we dont, we'll just keep letting them blow smoke up our asses
while they bust people that wouldnt otherwise be criminals and
strip away all of our rights

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