Feds More Concerned w/Weed, Than Foley
Gee, I feel so much safer now. The feds today carried out another one of their crackdown and arrest operation against a medical marijuana club in San Francisco. Maybe the marijuana growers and sellers should send emails and IMs of a sexual nature, to avoid federal law enforcement attention. Seeing the feds do nothing about Foley for years, but being able and ready to wage a war against a weed and sick people who need it, is just one more sorry example of America's screwed up priorities.
From the SF Chronicle site this afternoon:
Federal drug agents raided three Bay Area buildings connected to the same medical marijuana club today and arrested at least six people, advocates for the clubs said.
Drug Enforcement Administration officials would not confirm details of the raids or arrests, citing a sealed search warrant.
A marijuana club in San Francisco's Mission District was raided by federal drug enforcement officials around 10:30 a.m., according to protesters outside the building this afternoon. The building, at 1760 Mission St., is listed as a business called New Remedies, but there is no sign on the single-story brick building.
Federal agents also searched a warehouse about 2 1/2 miles away and arrested at least four people there. Medical marijuana advocate William Dolphin said the warehouse, located at 790 Tennessee St., was a growing facility for New Remedies, which also has been known as Mission Compassionate Caregivers.
Dolphin said two women also were arrested at what he called an administrative office for New Remedies in Oakland. The office is located at 17th and Franklin streets, near Lake Merritt, he said.
"Obviously, the DEA is on a little bit of a rampage this week," said Dolphin, citing other pot club crackdowns in Granada Hills, San Fernando Valley and Modesto. [...]
DEA spokeswoman Casey McEnry would not give details of today's "law enforcement action," citing a sealed search warrant.
At 12:45 p.m., federal agents brought five people out of the front door of 790 Tennessee St., a brick and stucco warehouse building with blacked-out windows and at least three surveillance cameras on the outside.
A federal agent at the scene indicated that three men and a woman had been arrested and another woman had been detained for questioning. [...]
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The Republicans know which side their bread is buttered on. Foley was a major fundraiser for them. According to CNN he had two million dollars in his bank account when he was arrested. Now they’re talking of giving that money to a child abuse group.
So the reason they turned a blind eye to his enthusiasm for youth, is because they didn’t want to cut off the gravy train. Compassion clubs, on the other hand, have never been too big on contributing to the Republican party.
You’re absolutely right. Law enforcement should go after the real bad guys, not the ones who are trying to help the sick, using an herb that has been used in healing for centuries.
Just as Bush’ support with regard the Iraq war seems to have disappeared, perhaps Americans will wake up and stop funding the DEA, who do nothing but harass decent people and try to convince us that marijuana is without any redeeming social value.
I suffer from the debilitating pain and neurological abnormalities of multiple sclerosis. I’ve tried all the prescription drugs that are supposed to help, and they didn’t. Medpot, on the other hand, gives me instant relief.
What would any normal person do in this case? Believe the DEA that marijuana is evil, or continue trying to obtain the one medicine that helps his condition?
If you’re in the same situation, I urge you to learn how to grow your own. There is a very helpful website up in Canada, Advanced Nutrients Medical, that is designed to teach medical marijuana patients how to grow their own medicine.
If you are able to grow outdoors (regardless of helicopter surveillance) and the state that you live in gives you permission to do this, I would recommend their three-part, time-release fertilizer called Heavy Harvest, Spring, Summer, and Fall. The N-P-K ratio of this plant food is adjusted to each season, and the granule-centred delivery means that you only have to administer it three times a year.
If you live in an urban setting and have to set up an indoor garden, you might want to go hydroponic, and use Grow, Micro, and Bloom, according to the different stages of the plant, from vegetative to flowering. Also, since the buds are the best source of the most potent medicine, you might want to use Big Bud, Overdrive, and Bloom Booster Pro, which are all designed to enhance the size and proliferation of your buds.
Now if you run into a mold problem, like I did, Advanced Nutrients Protector is specifically designed to fight and prevent powdery mildew. Spraying with their Piranha fights mildew and gray mold and a number of fungal infections, such as Pythium, Rhizoctania solani, Fusarium, Sclerotium rolfsii, Sclerotinia homoeocarpa and many other pathogens that could devastate your crop and cause you to lose all the effort you put into growing your own medicine.
The other major issue with regard to the DEA busting California compassion clubs, is the arrogance of the feds thinking that they can come into any state and trample on local laws with impunity. I am praying for some staunch defender of states’ rights to take them all the way to the Supreme Court with regard to the California legislation that allows medpot not just to be used, but also grown within the borders of the State of California.
As you know, this legislation goes back to the 1996 referendum, which sort of shows the will of the people. So what right does Washington have to contradict the will of the people of California? I’d love to see this battle fought in the highest court in the land and of course with the medpot side winning!
After all, what’s more important—for people who are seriously ill to be able to treat the symptoms of their illness and have less pain, or for uptight, conservative law enforcement fanatics to be able to push us around, prompted by their paranoid fantasies about marijuana?
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