Obama's Misguided Crackdown on Medical Marijuana

[DreamSmoker]

All the reason the Feds have stated were Tactics and not proved facts...

In early October, the Justice Department announced that it would be targeting medical-marijuana dispensaries in California. Calling large dispensaries "profiteers" that "hijacked" the state's medical-marijuana law, "motivated not by compassion but by money," California's four U.S. Attorneys announced the arrests of two major dispensary owners and a lawyer they accused of making millions from growing the drug.

It was a reversal of President Obama's campaign promise to end the previous Administration's legal pursuit of medical marijuana. Although Obama's Justice Department had previously abided by a memo that said prosecuting marijuana providers and patients who followed state law was not an "efficient use of federal resources," over the summer, the Administration changed tack, expressing concern about "an increase in the scope of commercial cultivation, sale, distribution and use of marijuana for purported medical purposes." It began sending letters to dispensaries and their landlords threatening forfeiture of the properties if marijuana sales did not stop.

The IRS has also begun a crackdown on California dispensaries. It claims that the dispensaries owe back taxes because their business deductions were illegal. In addition, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms recently warned gun dealers to not sell to users of medical marijuana.


http://healthland.time.com/2011/10/24/obamas-misguided-crackdown-on-medical-marijuana/