Some Things Don't CHANGE

[lame54]

Feds Raid Legal Marijuana Farm, Destroy Crops
Agents descended on the property of Joy Greenfield with guns drawn, tore out the plants and took Greenfield's computer and cash.
July 12, 2010 |

The federal Drug Enforcement Administration has flouted Mendocino County, California’s newly enacted medical marijuana ordinance by raiding the first collective that had applied to the sheriff’s cultivation permit program.

A multi-agency federal task force descended on the property of Joy Greenfield, the first Mendo patient to pay the $1,050 application fee under the ordinance, which allows collectives to grow up to 99 plants provided they comply with certain regulations.

Greenfield had applied in the name of her collective, “Light The Way,” which opened in San Diego earlier this year. Her property had passed a preliminary inspection by the Mendo sheriff’s deputies shortly before the raid, and she had bought the sheriff’s “zip-ties” intended to designate her cannabis plants as legal.

In the days before the raid, Greenfield had seen a helicopter hovering over her property; she inquired with the sheriff, who told her the copter belonged to the DEA and wasn’t under his control.

The agents invaded her property with guns drawn, tore out the collective’s 99 plants and took Greenfield’s computer and cash...

[tekisui]

1. I thought the feds weren't going to do that anymore.

That's what we were told anyway.

[asdjrocky]

2. I know these people.

These are good, hard working people, compassionate people just trying to make a living within the law in Ca.

I don't suppose we should expect our President to remind the DEA that he promised no raids?

[HughBeaumont]

3. What if America threw a drug war and no one came?

Needless. Pointless. Useless. JUST like our war on a noun.

[EOTE]

4. If you had been listening to Obama during his campaign, you'd know he said this would happen.

Oh wait, he actually said that this wouldn't happen. And some of us were naive enough to believe. What incredible bullshit. This has me seething with anger.

[Oregone]

5. Do you expect him to wave his magic bong?

Its easier to just pander to the widest electorate

[lame54]

6. He might risk spilling it

[lame54]

7. .

[jp11]

8. The DEA wants its war, it needs its war, deep downinside it hopes people want them in this war.

A link to the story:
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/147506/feds_raid_legal_marijuana_farm,_destroy_crops/

It would be great if marijuana wasn't an illegal substance seeing as how it is being used more and more for medical purposes, and has been shown to be effective in doing so, why can't it be a controlled substance like any other prescribed drug? Oh then we couldn't fight a drug war over it right, not like that war can't keep being 'fought' spent on cocaine, heroin, meth, or might it be that once we 'see the light' the drug war wouldn't have a leg to stand on?

[Tsiyu]

9. Thanks Obama!

From all the sick people who would have been helped by a PLANT.

It's not a drug, unless lavender flowers or beebalm or chamomile are "drugs."


It's a plant.


And to see grown men and women get such a kick out of demonizing a plant just makes me think these people are nuts.


Like, kookoo. Like they are the progeny of those people who enjoyed slavery or burned people at the stake for being "witches."

They gotta have drama and they gotta have control.


NUTS :crazy:

[Rex]

10. God is good, beer is great, people are crazy

so sayeth the Nutjobs czar of Rwing music...see BEER is okay, BEER...it is a process that requires commercial trade. A PLANT, no sir that sounds like pure socialism...people running around happy and feeling better over a PLANT...hey wait BEER comes from a plant too...hmmm...

Okay, I have come to the conclusion our Fed govt is just INSANE with power and cannot quit it...like a heroin addict.

Sad...pathetic...wrong = War on Drugs(People)

[Tsiyu]

11. Amen, Brother

from the Lodge in the Hickory Woods, a big and bright AMEN.

The hops that thou dost ferment be no more divine than the bud that thou dost vaporize.

Preach it Brother!


:applause: