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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNothing short of outragous, sick pot users put in jail in Montana
http://www.salon.com/2013/06/21/why_is_an_obama_appointee_launching_an_anti_marijuana_crusade/The top federal prosecutor in Montana Mike Cotter, the U.S. Attorney appointed by President Obama in 2009 then charged the growers, their greenhouse workers, their bookkeepers, some of their spouses, and even their landlords who had simply provided buildings to the growers, with decades in prison and in some cases virtual life sentences, all under federal drug trafficking statutes.
Now Cotter is breaking his silence and speaking publicly, for the first time about his two-year crusade to shutter the medical marijuana industry and put its practitioners behind bars, in many cases for life sentences. And he is mincing no words. He says that pot has no medical value at all, for anyone, and that if you think otherwise, you are a sucker who has been duped by slick Madison Avenue marketing employed by pot dealers. He says pot is a dangerous drug and growing it is a federal crime that must be punished.
The opposite of what doctors have long believed about the benefits of marijuana for many patients, these comments go a long way in explaining much of what happened in Montana over the last two years.
When Cotter charged these citizens in 2011, he gave no credence to a very basic protest that they all made: theyd been assured in writing, by Eric Holder, the U.S. Attorney General, that they could grow medical marijuana and the feds wouldnt prosecute them.
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As a kid, Obama smoked pot to get high. Now as President his appointees jail people who use pot to fight illness for defacto life sentences. That is despicable.
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Nothing short of outragous, sick pot users put in jail in Montana (Original Post)
dsc
Jun 2013
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avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)1. Horrific miscarriage of justice.
Eric Holder needs to step up to the plate and put Cotter in-line.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)2. Welcome Back!
Your dreams were your ticket out...
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)3. Despicable, that's exactly the word. n/t
Uncle Joe
(58,506 posts)4. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, dsc.
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)5. An appointee? If he knows he can be removed then he might be willing to listen to reason
No one is telling him to be happy about widespread pot use. But as a nation we are clearly moving to accepting it as an aid to people suffering from a variety of ailments.
So the policy of the DOJ should be to be moving away from wasting prison cells on pot related violations.
Now, if there is a state that vehemently opposes pot and you're smuggling tons of it in, well, then I can see the DOJ having a dilemma.
duhneece
(4,122 posts)6. Wrong, unjust, unfair, mean, ignorant...nt