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 veggie
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 DEA Raids Medical Marijuana Dispensaries [CA] 
#5054319 - 12/12/05 06:40 PM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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U.S. drug agents raid 13 medical marijuana sites
December 12, 2005 - signonsandiego.com
SAN DIEGO ? Federal agents fanned out across San Diego County on Monday, executing simultaneous search warrants on 13 medical marijuana dispensaries that have been selling pot to sick and dying patients.
No one was arrested on suspicion of drug-dealing, officials said, but agents seized dozens of pounds of high-grade marijuana along with equipment, computers, patient files and other materials inside the storefront offices.
In most cases, the agents arrived unannounced with guns drawn. They handcuffed employees and ran background checks on both workers and patients. They used drug-sniffing dogs to seek out marijuana and carted away computers and other equipment in trucks and sport-utility vehicles.
A handful of people were arrested on outstanding warrants that were unrelated to the use or possession of medical marijuana, a spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said.
Officials characterized the law-enforcement action as part of an ongoing criminal investigation. But they declined to say if or when any charges would be brought against the dispensary operators.
"We're still in the course of our investigation," DEA spokesman Misha Piastro said.
The raids were conducted on dispensaries doing business in San Diego and San Marcos after undercover agents purchased marijuana without the paperwork required under state law, Piastro said.
In 1996, California voters approved the use of marijuana for patients who have a doctor's recommendation, despite the fact that federal law prohibits marijuana use under any circumstance. As a result, federal agents still make arrests in California, while cities and counties either follow the state law or the federal mandate.
In San Diego County, the Board of Supervisors recently refused to follow a provision of the state law and issue identification cards that would help medical marijuana users avoid arrest. Last month, they went a step further and said they would file a lawsuit to challenge the state law.
The supervisors voted against the identification cards even after being criticized earlier this year by the San Diego County grand jury. The jury's report said the supervisors had ignored the will of California voters and should take "all possible action" to promote access to marijuana for seriously ill patients.
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Re: DEA Raids Medical Marijuana Dispensaries [CA] [Re: veggie]
#5056471 - 12/13/05 08:41 AM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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fucking stupid asses.
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Seuss
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Re: DEA Raids Medical Marijuana Dispensaries [CA] [Re: ShroomArtist84]
#5056579 - 12/13/05 09:16 AM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
"We're still in the course of our investigation," DEA spokesman Misha Piastro said.
The raids were conducted on dispensaries doing business in San Diego and San Marcos after undercover agents purchased marijuana without the paperwork required under state law, Piastro said.
Interesting... I didn't know that the federal government was in the business of enforcing state laws....
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Re: DEA Raids Medical Marijuana Dispensaries [CA] [Re: Seuss]
#5057398 - 12/13/05 12:04 PM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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There's not a whole lot they won't do. I'd bet that not many, if any, arrests come out of this, because the public opinion is in favor of med. marijuana. It would look really bad if the government starts taking away the only helpful medication of people who are very sick and dying.
Other people who are suffering but aren't dying...well that's a different story. Totally different set of laws 
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Re: DEA Raids Medical Marijuana Dispensaries [CA] [Re: dblaney]
#5058079 - 12/13/05 02:18 PM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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i fucking hate the government
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Seuss
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Re: DEA Raids Medical Marijuana Dispensaries [CA] [Re: nonick]
#5060987 - 12/14/05 03:05 AM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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> i fucking hate the government
It isn't government that is bad, but politicians. The problem we have is that all the important laws have been made. This means that a buch of politicians are sitting around with nothing to do. Seeing as how most politicians have very large egos, they make up new stuff to do. Unfortunately, the new stuff they do is making laws that regulate moral values... in line with their own moral values, of course... The easy solution to this is to put a two year time limit on all laws. After two years, a law expires unless congress re-writes the law, re-debates the law, re-votes on the law, and the president re-signs the law. This will keep all the politicians busy (doing useless work, but useless work is better than legislating moral values), thus giving the rest of us a little bit of freedom to decide for ourselves what our moral values should be.
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Re: DEA Raids Medical Marijuana Dispensaries [CA] [Re: Seuss]
#5060998 - 12/14/05 03:15 AM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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Seuss for Congress!
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"What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?"
"Belief is a beautiful armor
But makes for the heaviest sword"
- John Mayer
Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin.
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln
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Re: DEA Raids Medical Marijuana Dispensaries [CA] [Re: veggie]
#5061017 - 12/14/05 03:29 AM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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A handful of people were arrested on outstanding warrants that were unrelated to the use or possession of medical marijuana, a spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said.
why would you do something controversial legally if you are a fugitive?
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Seuss
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Re: DEA Raids Medical Marijuana Dispensaries [CA] [Re: dblaney]
#5061084 - 12/14/05 05:00 AM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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> Seuss for Congress!
*shiver* I am afraid I would end up being useless, falling into the same trap as Jimmy Carter... honesty, intelligence, and good intentions don't normally mix well with politics.
> why would you do something controversial legally if you are a fugitive?
Often times, people have no idea that they have a standing warrant. Somebody forgets to pay a parking ticket, for example. I had a housemate in college that I had to bail out of jail for this. He got a parking ticket, and paid it by mailing the money to the police (in the envelope provided with the ticket). The police had no record of getting the money and a judge issued a warrant for his arrest. It wasn't until he got pulled over for speeding several years later that he found out that there was a warrant for some parking violation that he thought had been paid.
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Re: DEA Raids Medical Marijuana Dispensaries [CA] [Re: Seuss]
#5062411 - 12/14/05 12:01 PM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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That's an admirable attitude to have. In ancient Rome, there was a well-known emperor, (I can't remember his name) who did what needed to be done to fix the empire, and then actually resigned. I think we need a president or leader like that in modern times. Alot of Cold War issues still persist and won't be dealt with anytime soon because we're still lead by fear.
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"What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?"
"Belief is a beautiful armor
But makes for the heaviest sword"
- John Mayer
Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin.
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln
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