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Obama's Justification for His Crackdown on Medical mar1juana Dispensaries

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  1. Hightop

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    What a joke. And yet the hero worship from the brain dead continues. It is unbelievable.

    Obama Justice and medical mar1juana

    The President's justification for his crackdown on medical mar1juana dispensaries has to be heard to be believed


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    http://www.salon.com/2012/04/26/obama_justice_and_medical_marijuana/singleton/

    <p>President Obama gave an <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/ready-for-the-fight-rolling-stone-interview-with-barack-obama-20120425?page=2">interview to <em>Rolling Stone</em>‘s Jann Wenner</a> this week and was asked about his administration’s <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2011/10/06/doj-launches-coordinated-crack">aggressive crackdown</a> on medical mar1juana dispensaries, including ones located in states where medical mar1juana is legal and which are licensed by the state; this policy is directly contrary to Obama’s campaign pledge to not “use Justice Department resources to try and circumvent state laws about medical mar1juana.” Here’s part of the President’s answer:</p>
    <blockquote><p>I never made a commitment that somehow we were going to give carte blanche to large-scale producers and operators of mar1juana – and the reason is, because it’s against federal law. I can’t nullify congressional law. <strong>I can’t ask the Justice Department to say, “Ignore completely a federal law that’s on the books</strong>” . . . .</p>
    <p>The only tension that’s come up – and this gets hyped up a lot – is a murky area where you have large-scale, commercial operations that may supply medical mar1juana users, but in some cases may also be supplying recreational users. In that situation, we put the Justice Department in a very difficult place if we’re telling them<strong>, “This is supposed to be against the law, but we want you to turn the other way.” That’s not something we’re going to do. </strong></p></blockquote>
    <p>Aside from the fact that Obama’s claim about the law is outright false — as Jon Walker <a href="http://justsaynow.firedoglake.com/2012/04/25/obama-lies-about-federal-mar1juana-law-to-rolling-stone/">conclusively documents</a>, the law vests the Executive Branch with precisely the discretion he falsely claims he does not have to decide how drugs are classified — it’s just extraordinary that Obama is affirming the “principle” that he can’t have the DOJ “turn the othe way” in the face of lawbreaking. As an emailer just put it to me: “Interesting how this principle holds for prosecuting [medical] mar1juana producers in the war on drugs, but not for prosecuting <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/us/politics/12inquire.html?pagewanted=all">US officials in the war on terror</a>. Or <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/us/politics/02fisa.html">telecommunications companies for illegal spying</a>. Or <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/why-no-financial-crisis-prosecutions-official-says-its-just-too-hard">Wall Street banks</a> for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/business/schneiderman-is-said-to-face-pressure-to-back-bank-deal.html?pagewanted=all">mortgage fraud</a>.”</p>
    <p>That’s about as vivid an expression of the President’s agenda, and his sense of justice, and the state of the Rule of Law in America, as one can imagine. The same person who directed the DOJ to shield torturers and illegal government eavesdroppers from criminal investigation, and who voted to retroactively immunize the nation’s largest telecom giants when they got caught enabling criminal spying on Americans, and whose DOJ has failed to indict a single Wall Street executive in connection with the 2008 financial crisis or mortgage fraud scandal, suddenly discovers the imperatives of The Rule of Law when it comes to those, in accordance with state law, providing medical mar1juana to sick people with a prescription.</p>
     
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  2. Baqui99

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    Very disappointing - another issue that DOJ has no business being involved in.
     
  3. QdoubleA

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    Just pathetic. It' just so transparent...

    Power and money. Power and money.
     
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  5. Rocketman95

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    But we're all cheerleaders! :rolleyes:
     
  6. Classic

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    You don't make it to the top without being complicit with the establishment.
     
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    What an idiotic excuse, for an idiotic policy from the President.
     
  9. mc mark

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    pretty much
     
  10. Baqui99

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    "What do yew expect frem a socialist, muzzlem terrorizer. And I still aint seen the birth certeefikat!"
     
  11. rocketsjudoka

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    I don't think this nearly as clear cut as the OP makes it out to be. The Executive Branch has discretion but they cannot outright ignore an act from Congress that would create a Constitutional crisis and lead to an outright tyranny if the Executive just ignored Congress.

    Consider that Iran-Contra was about the Reagan Admin. ignoring a congressional law forbidding aid to the Contra.
     
  12. Rocketman95

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    Knowing that many Obama supporters do not agree with his position on this and vocally criticize him both on and off this board for this stance (and many others), the charges of Obama hero worship and cheerleading is just patently false.
     
  13. rhadamanthus

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    Was I charging anyone of such heinous activity?

    (well, I charged one person, but that was a special scenario)
     
  14. Rocketman95

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    I was making fun of the second sentence in the original post.

    Using you was probably not the best example. :)
     
  15. mc mark

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    Obama should certainly be criticized for many things, but I don't believe this is one of those. I'm not sure why the Feds haven't been more open about the busts they are making, but I know for a fact at least some of the busts have ended up with bricks of cash, loads of guns, bales of weed not locally/legally grown, and records of distribution networks far beyond the local medical users. In short, criminal enterprises.

    I can't say that all the crackdown is directed at these operations or those that support such operations, but I know at least some of it is.
     
  17. FranchiseBlade

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    I don't have a problem with those busts, but the excuse of not being able ignore the laws on the books, while ignoring them for the reasons listed in MC Mark's post is ridiculouse
     
  18. rimrocker

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    Yep, I concur.
     
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    Yeah, Obama dropped the ball on this one.
     

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