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OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL.
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Here is an article about it:


"Last Friday, the DEA raided a medical marijuana producer in Colorado. The story needs some fleshing out, but at the moment it appears that Chris Bartkowicz wasn't violating any state law. Medical marijuana is legal in Colorado. His offense appears to have been boasting about how much money he makes growing the drug for patients.

    DEA agents converged on the house Friday afternoon and, before leaving several hours later, removed dozens of marijuana plants in black plastic trash bags as well as numerous high-powered growing lights.

    On Thursday night, 9News promoted a story about Bartkowicz's operation, and on Friday morning, Bartkowicz was featured in a 9News story posted to its website and published in The Denver Post. The story was to air on television Friday night. He told the station he serves as a caregiver to a number of medical-marijuana patients and hoped to turn a profit this year in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

    "I'm definitely living the dream now," Bartkowicz told 9News.

The DEA is not only unapologetic, they appear to be blatantly ignoring last year's directive from the Obama Justice Department instructing U.S. attorneys to allow medical marijuana growers and distributors to operate so long as they're complying with state law.

    Along with the raid, Jeffrey Sweetin, the Drug Enforcement Administration's special agent in charge of the Denver office, sent a message to anyone involved in Colorado's increasingly profitable medical-marijuana industry.

    "It's still a violation of federal law," Sweetin said. "It's not medicine. We're still going to continue to investigate and arrest people."

Bartkowicz is being held over the Presidents Day weekend while the office of Colorado U.S. Attorney David M. Gaouette decides if he'll be charged.

Last October, both I and Jacob Sullum expressed skepticism about Obama's announcement to end the federal medical marijuana raids."


http://reason.com/blog/2010/02/15/we-wont-raid-medical-marijuana


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Re: OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL. [Re: Supreme Slammage]
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We have three articles about it up at http://www.sinsemillainc.com/

Shit's fucked up... I really believed Federal prosecution was behind us.


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Re: OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL. [Re: Supreme Slammage]
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well duh... I've been saying this for quite some time


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Re: OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL. [Re: Prisoner#1]
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The DEA really pisses me the fuck off.

I hate it when people go after med MJ


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There's only one way to answer that frustrating question of "what was it like?".

You hand the fucker The Machine packed with an 80mg dose and wave goodbye.

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Re: OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL. [Re: Isaracing]
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Re: OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL. [Re: Supreme Slammage]
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it's not medicine. sit down and drink your gin and don't worry. the dea is here to take the bad men off the street for us.

that guy's quote really pisses me off. someone should give him datura.

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Re: OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL. [Re: Supreme Slammage]
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I always find it amusing when anybody thinks a hand picked, system infused, media backed, politician will be anything but they were meant to be. Change, LOL.


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Re: OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL. [Re: arekusu]
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I wonder if they'll still pull this shit when we legalize it?

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Re: OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL. [Re: Lynnch]
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Hank, FTW said:
I always find it amusing when anybody thinks a hand picked, system infused, media backed, politician will be anything but they were meant to be. Change, LOL.


Me 2.  Maybe bc he admitted he inhaled people didn't think he would fight to keep the CIA narco mafia in control of the drug trade and keep it profitable.

Lynnch said:
I wonder if they'll still pull this shit when we legalize it?


We as in California?  Most likely they will try to pull that shit. In fact alot of asshole mayors will probably invite them in like they have with medi marijuana!


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Re: OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL. [Re: Supreme Slammage]
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Actually, in this case Obama didn't lie at all. That grower WAS in violation of state law.


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Re: OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL. [Re: LSDreamer]
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LSDreamer said:
Actually, in this case Obama didn't lie at all. That grower WAS in violation of state law.


"The story needs some fleshing out, but at the moment it appears that Chris Bartkowicz wasn't violating any state law."

If you have proof the state law was violated please enlighten us!!!
I would like to know. 
"Yesterday Radley Balko noted that on Friday the Drug Enforcement Administration busted Chris Bartkowicz, a medical marijuana grower in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, despite the Justice Department's announcement that it would stop prosecuting such individuals if they are complying with state law. Did Bartkowicz's operation comply with state law? The short answer is "probably," at least as the law is currently understood. But that is not good enough to qualify him for the Justice Department's newfound tolerance, which applies only to "individuals whose actions are in clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state laws providing for the medical use of marijuana."

Colorado's law, like California's, allows patients or their "primary caregivers" to grow and possess marijuana for medical use. The general limit is two ounces of pot and six plants per patient at any given time. The law defines a "primary caregiver" as "a person, other than the patient and the patient's physician, who is eighteen years of age or older and has significant responsibility for managing the well-being of a patient who has a debilitating medical condition." Prior to his arrest, the Denver Post reports, Bartkowicz told a local TV station "a number of medical-marijuana patients" had designated him as their primary caregiver, a status that would allow him to grow six plants per patient. In 2008 the California Supreme Court rejected this sort of argument, once favored by marijuana dispensaries in that state; it ruled that a primary caregiver's involvement in a patient's life has to go beyond supplying him with pot. But it appears the Colorado courts have not followed suit. Westword reports that the Colorado Board of Health is considering new regulations that, among other things, would  "require caregivers to offer additional services to their patients besides providing them with pot" and impose "a five-patient-per-caregiver limit." In other words, those restrictions do not currently apply, so Bartkowicz's defense could very well be successful in state court.

But that doesn't mean Bartkowicz definitely would prevail, which is what the Justice Department's guidelines apparently require. In fact, the memo (PDF) laying out the new policy suggests that the Justice Department reserves the authority to interpret state law. So even if Colorado's courts say Bartkowicz's operation was legitimate, the feds could disagree, which is rather inconsistent with President Obama's professed desire to respect state autonomy in this area. For example, the memo says "prosecution of commercial enterprises that unlawfully market and sell marijuana for profit continues to be an enforcement priority." Among the factors that could expose a medical marijuana supplier to federal prosecution, it lists "financial and marketing activities inconsistent with the terms, conditions, or purposes of state law, including evidence of money laundering activity and/or financial gains or excessive amounts of cash inconsistent with purported compliance with state or local law" (emphasis added). Colorado's law says nothing one way or  the other about how much compensation a caregiver can receive from a patient. So on what basis does the DEA decide that Bartkowicz's "financial gains" (which he stupidly bragged about on TV) are illicit, let alone that the amount of cash he has is "excessive"? The Justice Department may think it's outrageous for medical marijuana growers to turn a profit, or even to get reimbursed for their expenses, but state law says no such thing.

The really galling aspect of this case is that Jeffrey Sweetin, who runs the DEA's Denver office, does not even pretend to be interpreting state law, as the Justice Department memo ostensibly requires. "It's still a violation of federal law," he says. "It's not medicine. We're still going to continue to investigate and arrest people." In other words, forget what Obama repeatedly promised on the campaign trail, what Attorney General Eric Holder declared last March, and what the Justice Department memo put in writing; we are going to carry on as usual. Given Obama's choice to head the DEA, it's not surprising that Sweetin feels confident in saying that the president's promises mean nothing.

In October I explained why Obama's new medical marijuana policy might not make much difference in practice."

http://reason.com/blog/2010/02/16/was-that-colorado-pot-grower-c


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Re: OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL. [Re: LSDreamer]
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LSDreamer said:
Actually, in this case Obama didn't lie at all. That grower WAS in violation of state law.


do you mean federal law? if it was a medical grow i do not see how this breaks state laws.


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Re: OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL. [Re: hidekie80]
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hidekie80 said:
LSDreamer said:
Actually, in this case Obama didn't lie at all. That grower WAS in violation of state law.


do you mean federal law? if it was a medical grow i do not see how this breaks state laws.


Yeh.  Federal law was what they were enforcing under bush!  Obama said even though federal law allowed(even though unconstitutional so technically illegal) them to arrest patiets and dispensaries he would stop as long as it complied with state laws!  Lying bastard!  What a hippocrate too!  He snorted coke off some gay guys ass in a limo yet he'll use the DEA to keep arresting sick people for using medicine!


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Re: OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL. [Re: Supreme Slammage]
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That grower appears to have had more than 6 plants per patient.


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Re: OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL. [Re: LSDreamer]
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LSDreamer said:
That grower appears to have had more than 6 plants per patient.


"appears?"  According to the DEA?  Where's the source.  Most likely they just made it up and are taking him political prisoner for his news story!


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Re: OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL. [Re: Supreme Slammage]
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Well yeah, if you just assume everything that the DEA says is false, the guy wasn't doing anything wrong :shrug:


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Re: OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL. [Re: LSDreamer]
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i wonder if these kind of reports make the DEA look better or worse to th general population  :psybong:

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Re: OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL. [Re: skatealex2]
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skatealex2 said:
i wonder if these kind of reports make the DEA look better or worse to th general population  :psybong:


Tha'ts a really good question.  Considering alot of people think that LSD is a terible dangerous drug though although lots of normal ppl might think its a bit much there a good portion that probably would endorse it!


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Re: OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL. [Re: Supreme Slammage]
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Quote:
It's not medicine.


Why do they keep saying that when it's obvious that it is for some people. The people who benefit from it should be the one's who decide whether it's medicine or not.
Not the people who have no experience with the relief it can provide.

Fucking infuriating ignorance.

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Re: OBAMA LIED AGAIN... DEA ARRESTS MEDICAL GROWER IN COL. [Re: Mike_yy]
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Mikeyyork said:
Quote:
It's not medicine.


Why do they keep saying that when it's obvious that it is for some people. The people who benefit from it should be the one's who decide whether it's medicine or not.
Not the people who have no experience with the relief it can provide.

Fucking infuriating ignorance.


and fuck the FDA
http://www.independent.org/publications/policy_reports/detail.asp?type=full&id=38


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