Dianne Feinstein Tells San Francisco to Go Smoke a Fat One

[Newsjock]

Source: SF Weekly

... Your local bureaucrats make it part of their job to send a letter every February to state and federal politicians restating the city's desire that the government legalize marijuana. ... In 2006, the heyday of San Francisco lefty politics, the Board of Supervisors really did pass a law requiring officials to send out this letter annually to the governor, the House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, the California Assembly, and the California Senate.

But with every year that passes, and each with missive sent, federal and state bodies respond with sweeping disregard.

... On April 13, Sen. Dianne Feinstein had a staff member write what was believed to be the first-ever response, essentially telling San Francisco city officials, and local potheads, to go smoke a a big fat one.

... An excerpt from Feinstein's letter: "I received your letter and want to thank you for informing me of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors' passage of an ordinance to deprioritize marijuana offenses by adults and request that the federal and California state governments do the same. I appreciate hearing the views of the Board on this issue. I do not support the legalization of any illegal narcotics, including marijuana. As you may be aware, I opposed California Proposition 19, which would have allowed adults to possess and cultivate marijuana for personal use. My convictions on this matter have developed over many years of experience in criminal justice, including nine years as a mayor who worked very closely with the law-enforcement community. I know the tragedy that drug abuse causes in the lives of the addicted and to victims of drug-related crimes and their families. I have also seen the devastation drugs can inflict on communities."

Read more: http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/05/dianne_feinstein_pot_law.php

[Bluenorthwest]

1. DiFi is a piece of work

CA could do so much better.

[FLAprogressive]

2. Fein$tein is a real tool and is one of the most vile Senate dems like Landrieu, Nel$on, and $chumer.

[GreenArrow]

10. Hell, she's one of the most vile Senators, period,

both parties included, and a good example of what's wrong with the American political system. She's utterly repellent.

[mountainlion55]

3. IMO

She is a corrupt tool of the people who profit from Cannnabis prohibition. :grr:

[Redford]

5. You got that right!

I could grow it for pennies.....Can you imagine how big pharma's head would spin if their unnatural pain meds were no longer needed?

[jmowreader]

18. Their heads would spin, and not in a way you'd like

Today's atrocity is NIASPAN. It is a time-release niacin tablet manufactured by Abbott Laboratories.

Now remember, this product has been available basically forever. It's also known as Vitamin B-3. You can go to any health food store, vitamin store, drugstore, supermarket, full-line discounter or wherever else you might want to go and buy a bottle of 100 tablets of time-release niacin for less than ten dollars.

Or you can go on NIASPAN. Drugstore.com lists 180-count bottles of NIASPAN 500 mg for $481.93 and 180-count bottles of NIASPAN 1000 mg for $860.31.

The commercials for this shit show people's children demanding they go on NIASPAN to lower their cholesterol. Okay, it will do exactly that and with far fewer side effects than statins have--as will the niacin you can get at every grocery store in America. But fuck, man...five hundred dollars for a bottle of vitamins? Or worse, nine hundred dollars for vitamins? Y'all who thought the $1500 progesterone shots were outrageous hadn't seen anything yet.

So what has this to do with marijuana? If marijuana was taken to Schedule III where it belongs, it would take about a week for one of the big pharma companies to introduce Holola (cannabis sativa) for $1500 a lid. Worse, doctors would write Holola prescriptions to Medicare patients, and you & I would be paying through our taxes for $1500 a lid shit weed.

[tridim]

4. Time to retire fuddy duddy.

[Ramulux]

6. Its pathetic we cant do better than her in California

I really wish she would get a good primary challenger but I doubt its gonna happen.

[Proletariatprincess]

8. If you look up DINO in the dictionary....

you will find DiFi's face. I'm a San Franciscian and watched her arise to president of the Board of Supervisors and then to mayor after the asassination of Moscone and Milk and I really wanted her to succeed. But it became apparent early on that her loyalty is to big business...downtown interests, we call them here. Now we know that she is also a tool of the Israeli lobby and a reliable hawk on foreign affairs.
She hasn't got my vote since she became mayor and I would love to see her defeated or retired. She is a piece of work. California Deserves better.

[Ramulux]

14. What sucks...

is that we have such a talented dem bench here in Cali but they seem too scared of Diane to launch a primary.

Boxer is also not as liberal as many try to portray her as being. Shes great on energy but a lot more hawkish on foreign policy than people seem to think.

[demosincebirth]

15. Let me guess. Green party voter? (Todd Chretian '06)

[demosincebirth]

12. She's and old time democrat...good for Labor and working people. Thats why

she's unbeatable.

[villager]

21. except when working people want to assert their, you know, civil rights

n/t

[Bennyboy]

7. Sometimes I just hate Di-Fi..

We need people that are thinking ahead and can make the distinction between pot and heroin or other drugs.

[Hubert Flottz]

9. I've seen the devistation that fucked up politicians can inflict on

The United States of America.

[demosincebirth]

11. She votes 90% for labor. Thats all it take for me to work for her re election.

[femrap]

13. She is an

embarrassment to women, progressives, Californians....and anyone else with a decent and operating brain.

She needs drugs.

[stevedeshazer]

16. Maybe if she burned a fatty once in a while, she wouldn't be such a shitty Senator.

I hope my southern overlords in California will soon have a more progressive Democratic Senator.

We gave you Jeff Merkley. You owe us.

[nebenaube]

17. I'm moving there, so

at least I'll have a chance to help try...

[droidamus2]

19. Hey DiFi

They weren't talking about 'drugs' they were talking about 'a drug' or more correctly a plant. A plant that is non-addictive and I would posit leads to little to no crime that isn't directly related to the fact that it is illegal. This is one of the problems with the war on 'drugs' is the warriors have convinced people that a drug is a drug is a drug and in the end their all really the same addictive and harmful. Therefore it is hard (getting easier for marijuana) get them to discuss just marijuana without them throwing all the scare words and tactics in your face. Also DiFi working in the justice system you probably saw the worst of the worst look at the statistics as to number of people who have tried drugs and the percentage that actually got addicted or had 'trouble' with drugs. I bet the percentage is actually pretty low. With marijuana nobody gets addicted maybe 'habituated' but not addicted. Some would say that is just semantics but I think there is a real difference.

[proud patriot]

20. booooooooooooooooo hisssssssssssssssssssssss

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