DEA moves to pull pot out from under San Francisco landlords

[Newsjock]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is pushing to close San Francisco's cannabis clubs by turning its guns on their landlords - warning them that renting to pot dispensaries could cost them their buildings.

The agency intends to send letters by week's end to 80 owners of buildings housing medical marijuana clubs, similar to notices it fired off recently to landlords in Los Angeles and Sacramento, according law enforcement sources.

"By this notice, you have been made aware of the purposes for which the property is being used," said a copy of the letter sent to Sacramento landlords, signed by the special agent in charge of the DEA's San Francisco office, Javier Pena.

"You are further advised that violations of federal laws relating to marijuana may result in criminal prosecution, imprisonment, fines and forfeiture of assets."

In other words - your building.

... State law, of course, has no problem with cannabis clubs as long as they are genuinely dealing in medical marijuana, under the terms of the 1996 ballot measure Proposition 215. The feds, however, don't recognize medicinal uses for pot and have periodically raided clubs in San Francisco and elsewhere.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/05/BAUJTO8FM.DTL

[Deep13]

1. Zero tolerance for cancer victims! Hell, yeah!

Waitaminute, what? :shrug: :wtf:

[Mabus]

4. It's called the Republican Culture of Life

It's not that they don't care about cancer victims... It's that they get donations from the insurance, pharmaceutical and other companies that make money when cancer victims are forced to use conventional medicine. They would rather that you pop pills than smoke a joint because that's where their bread is buttered. They don't want people to use drugs that they can grow themselves.

[MADem]

2. Hmmm...time to set 'em up in TENTS, or something?

Rent one of these beauties!!
http://www.fabricstructures.com/products/index.asp

[McCamy Taylor]

14. Tents of public lands. Good one.

[99th_Monkey]

27. Great idea! Are their any Hemp Tents on the market? n/t

[sam sarrha]

3. what else can they do, drug lords own them, cant bust junkies, an piss off the CIA.. >LINK>>

http://www.madcowprod.com/10092007.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/09/crashed-drug-plane-o.html

[LiberalFighter]

5. Send Javier Pena back to Columbia immediately for his next duty.

He probably got corrupted by the Columbians and would do anything to help maintain their routes.

[LiberalFighter]

6. I wonder how much pot Javier Pena has in his home.

[Mythsaje]

7. The DEA are scum.

They're no better than the South American drug lords they allegedly fight.

[progressoid]

8. Yeah so where are all of the RW "state's rights" advocates now?

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

9. States Rights only apply when you want to execute retarded people

silly liberal...

[noonwitch]

11. Or keep slaves

unless it's the voluntary, "Mr. Slave" type.

[ieoeja]

15. "or to the people."

That's a COMMA after states rights, not a period. Full text of the 10th Amendment reads:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."


So a strict constructionist view would hold that the Federal gov't is allowed to contravene State law only for those powers specifically reserved to the Federal gov't by the Constitution or its Amendments -or- when the State is curtailing a right that belongs to the people.


When a State grants gays the right to marriage, the Feds have no Constitutional power to intervene.

When a State takes away abortion rights, the Feds have the Constitutional authority to contravene the State in order to protect the rights of the people.

When a State grants people the right to use marijuana, the Feds have no Constitutional power to intervene.

When a State takes away voting and other rights from minorities, the Feds have the Constitutional authority to contravene the State in order to protect the rights of the people.

When a State grants people the right to assisted suicide, the Feds have no Constitutional power to intervene.


Notice the pattern here? There may be an issue or two in which Democrats have acted against the 10th Amendment, but by and large when Democrats have acted against States Rights, it has been on behalf of Civil Rights which means the Democrats acted in accordance with the Constitution. While invariably when Republicans have acted against States Rights, they did so to in opposition to Civil Rights at the same time, leaving them no Constitutional leg to stand on.

Which means Republican elected officials routinely violate 80% of the Bill of Rights: the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th.

[LeftyMom]

10. Evil fuckers.

I wouldn't wish cancer on anybody, but sick fucks like that tempt me mightily.

[McCamy Taylor]

12. Solution---use city owned buildings and hospitals. Feds will have a hard time

trying to seize those.

[McCamy Taylor]

13. 2nd solution---sell out of trucks--the Jack Kevorkian strategy.

[pleah]

16. Pot should be LEGAL

I have never heard of anyone ODing from pot. I know people who have smoked for most of their lives and they are rarely sick. Some of these people are in their sixties now.

[Popol Vuh]

17. I have just a few words to say to the DEA

Read the 9th and 10th Amendments and then U.S. Supreme Court Marbury vs Madison with respect to "Acts".

Then close down your offices for being a law violating agency.

n/t

[Popol Vuh]

18. Man Receives 300 Marijuana Joints a Month From the Federal Government

The federal government itself issues medical marijuana, but, on the other hand tells the states that federal law prohibits medical marijuana.

*sigh* my brain hurts....


http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle_blog/2007/oct/24/this_man_receives_300_marijuana_

[FatDave]

23. 300 a month??

That's 10 joints a day! That guy could probably keep up with Snoop and Tommy Chong.

[bemildred]

19. Let's abolish the DEA instead.

It will be a lot cheaper, for one thing, and we'll have less drugs on our streets too.

[DCKit]

20. No more Mexican ditch weed if we could get the good stuff from Canada. n/t

If and when the Mexicans learned to start growing some decent shit, it would help their economy.

[pleah]

26. Right on!

Dig it!

[OneBlueSky]

21. I still don't understand this hard-on the feds have against pot . . .

I mean, it's not like it's hard drugs or anything . . . it's basically a natural mild euphoric that millions and millions of people partake of, some regularly and some on occasion, and it doesn't seem to do much harm to most . . .

so what's with this BushCo vendetta against pot and its users? . . . doesn't make sense, particularly when there are so many other places that law enforcement could be directing their limited resources . . .

[MindPilot]

22. And which of our candidates would end the WoD?

Is there anyone out there running who might actually recognize that the federal government is not the omnipotent master of the people?

Anyone?

[redqueen]

24. Only one. I'll give ya three guesses.

*sigh*

[clixtox]

25. Dennis Kucinich

Has pledged to end the "war on drugs", which is actually a war on minorities and poor people in general.

[MorganaSeawalker]

28. Kucinich, Dodd, Richardson

I would love to see John Edwards turn around on this issue, it would so benefit Elizabeth. I have a CA licensed prescription, bye bye vicodin bye bye. The long fall off the cliff with Jorge has given me an opportunity to get natural and health(ier) and still lead a productive professional life that supports our household. Big Pharma has addicted a Nation, the lax FDA has allowed them to poison the people.