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Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies
#18761205 - 08/26/13 08:04 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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http://my.firedoglake.com/acmerecords/2013/08/25/obama-dea-employs-smashing-new-tactic-to-intimidate-cannabis-pharmacies/
By: acmerecords Sunday August 25, 2013 12:46 pm
cross posted at mLaw
The Drug Enforcement Administration in cooperation with a patchwork of Michigan state law enforcement entities has, over the past three weeks, conducted a series of cannabis dispensary searches in the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti areas that have been described by the press as “smash and grab” raids.
The series of raids, including two just last week, are characterized by groups of federal drug agents, sometimes supported by local or state police, swooping into cannabis pharmacies in unmarked vans and SUVs with no sirens or flashing lights. The federal agents’ flash Michigan state warrants and seize cannabis plants and cash. In a series of raids beginning on July 30, agents did not leave copies of the state warrants at the three cannabis pharmacies that were raided.
No arrests have been made in the series of ‘smash and grab’ raids, and the searches seem to end as abruptly as they begin when cash is confiscated and dispensary employees begin photographing the raiding agents. The Michigan chapter of Americans for Safe Access (ASA) issued a ‘raid alert’ after the Ann Arbor pharmacy raid.
In addition to these raids, three cannabis dispensaries in Detroit were raided in the past weeks by the Detroit Police using the same pattern of quick entry and quick exit. In these raids, the Detroit Police were accompanied by Michigan State Police, agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and a Detroit city code enforcement official.
Medical cannabis advocates in Michigan are concerned about the new tactics used in these DEA raids, especially in light of the fact that federal agents are serving state-issued warrants. Also of concern is the DEA’s reliance upon state police instead of local police to support the raids. Critics feel the federal agents are choosing to partner with statewide law enforcement entities to preclude local police from participating in the raids in locations, such as Ann Arbor, where there is broad public support for the use of cannabis for medical relief.
The DEA is a federal law enforcement organization within the US Justice Department, an agency under the executive branch. Just last week, a spokesperson for President Obama told the nation that “the president and the administration believe that targeting individual marijuana users, especially those with serious illnesses and their caregivers, is not the best allocation for federal law enforcement resources.”
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Re: Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies [Re: Magick] 1
#18761216 - 08/26/13 08:06 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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---- The people should stand up to them. There should exist medical marijuana shop that are prepared for such an ambush, such that when they try to raid the place, people just stand in front of it and act as a barrier between the shop and the agents.
Preferably no violence, but the people won't be the first ones to use their weapons ya?
They need to stand up for what they voted for.
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Re: Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies [Re: Magick]
#18761252 - 08/26/13 08:19 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Wish there was something we could do...that would work.
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Re: Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies [Re: Magick]
#18761266 - 08/26/13 08:23 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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That is kinda what I am afraid of.
I did not forsee this rift between states and federal enforcement. I've been concerned with what happens when shops do decide to stand their ground. These days, If you defy the DEA entirely and resist; there will be violence. Local cops will not fight the DEA(yet, lol).
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Re: Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies [Re: Dickhead] 6
#18761293 - 08/26/13 08:32 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I lol at the people who voted for obama thinking he would legalize pot or fucking at least back OFF MEDICAL CANNABIS!
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Re: Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies [Re: Gorlax] 2
#18761310 - 08/26/13 08:36 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Reminds me of the mob; it's like protection money.
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Re: Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies [Re: Gorlax] 4
#18761567 - 08/26/13 09:37 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I would really love to see state and city police be the ones standing up to the feds in these situations, instead of citizen cannon fodder. I know it won't ever happen, ever. But the idea of a state trooper, say in Colorado or here in Cali, telling a DEA agent that he will be arrested for trespass, false imprisonment, and theft of property if a raid proceeds is pretty much the wettest of my wet dreams.
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Re: Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies [Re: dokunai]
#18762146 - 08/27/13 12:16 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
dokunai said: I would really love to see state and city police be the ones standing up to the feds in these situations, instead of citizen cannon fodder. I know it won't ever happen, ever. But the idea of a state trooper, say in Colorado or here in Cali, telling a DEA agent that he will be arrested for trespass, false imprisonment, and theft of property if a raid proceeds is pretty much the wettest of my wet dreams.
I never thought of that, but that would be really really awesome.
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Re: Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies [Re: Magick] 2
#18762158 - 08/27/13 12:23 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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So the DEA just figured out how to pull an armed robbery? Sweet, get the news out, armed robbery works.
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Re: Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies [Re: something cool] 1
#18762430 - 08/27/13 03:04 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Re: Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies [Re: smack]
#18762566 - 08/27/13 04:54 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
I would really love to see state and city police be the ones standing up to the feds in these situations, instead of citizen cannon fodder.
It's not the police that should be standing their ground, but the controllers of the executive and legislative branch on a state level. The police is just their right hand. If you want something done, call or write a letter to your state representatives.
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Re: Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies [Re: Lord_McLovin]
#18762866 - 08/27/13 08:16 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Smash and grab? You're so.creative mr obama at changing the words armed breaking and entering to smash and grab. I really wish obama got caught up in a smash and grab raid during his frequent toking youth days.
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Re: Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies [Re: Magick]
#18762874 - 08/27/13 08:21 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Perhaps what the cannabis pharmacies need to do is employee tiny wops. Like that little three foot tall wop Rambo to safeguard the cannabis pharmacies.

After all, who among us would shed a tear if a DEA agent was vaporized in a hail of machine gun fire
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Re: Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies [Re: searching]
#18762993 - 08/27/13 09:14 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Actually, it would be civil war.
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Re: Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies [Re: Dickhead]
#18763587 - 08/27/13 11:59 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Re: Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies [Re: Lord_McLovin]
#18763746 - 08/27/13 12:40 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Lord_McLovin said:
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I would really love to see state and city police be the ones standing up to the feds in these situations, instead of citizen cannon fodder.
It's not the police that should be standing their ground, but the controllers of the executive and legislative branch on a state level. The police is just their right hand. If you want something done, call or write a letter to your state representatives.
Like they really give a shit, they don't represent the people, calling or writing a letter is a waste of time.
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Re: Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies [Re: qman]
#18763753 - 08/27/13 12:41 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Well, not doing anything is not going to change anything for sure.
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Re: Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies [Re: Lord_McLovin]
#18764255 - 08/27/13 02:44 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Don't citizens have the right to organize a militia if need be? Why not do that? I'm pretty sure there are plenty of people with carry permits that would be willing to stand outside dispensaries and protect against these shit-eating packs of rabid pigs. They want to go on a power trip? Why not do the same against their tyranny?
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Re: Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies [Re: Camwritesgonzo]
#18764268 - 08/27/13 02:46 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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You first. I shall await the results.
I see little chance of a war with the Feds over cannabis.
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Re: Obama DEA employs ‘smashing’ new tactic to intimidate cannabis pharmacies [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#18764315 - 08/27/13 02:55 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Just gotta get medical legalized here and then if the pigs try their gestapo tactics I'll be more than glad to lend my services to the dispensaries that pop up.
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