Calif. pot dispensaries told by feds to shut down

[bronclvr]

SAN FRANCISCO — Federal prosecutors have launched a crackdown on pot dispensaries in California, warning the stores that they must shut down in 45 days or face criminal charges and confiscation of their property even if they are operating legally under the state's 15-year-old medical marijuana law.

In an escalation of the ongoing conflict between the U.S. government and the nation's burgeoning medical marijuana industry, California's s four U.S. attorneys sent letters Wednesday and Thursday notifying at least 16 pot shops or their landlords that they are violating federal drug laws, even though medical marijuana is legal in California. The attorneys are scheduled to announce their coordinated crackdown at a Friday news conference.

Their offices refused to confirm the closure orders. The Associated Press obtained copies of the letters that a prosecutor sent to 12 San Diego dispensaries. They state that federal law "takes precedence over state law and applies regardless of the particular uses for which a dispensary is selling and distributing marijuana."



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44806723/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

[Tombstone RJ]

yay fed gov!! ram it down their throats!! Get down with your bad self!!

[CBF1]

okay...This explains alot. I am figuring orton is flying to cali during the week and picking up a huge bag of white zombie and smoking it all before game time on sunday, explains his game and lack of effort.

[SonOfLe-loLang]

Is this true? Unreal. Of all the things wrong with the country...pot dispenseries??? And for those who will jump on me about communist beliefs, they are economic only. I don't approve of this kind of thing.

[bowtown]

Yay War on Drugs!


idiots.

[RhymesayersDU]

420 BRO.

[SimonFletcher73]

I don't think they'll really do anything. Doesn't California need the cash this generates? Colorado certainly does.

Biggest substance abuse issues are with real pharmacies.

[Houshyamama]

The war on drugs is one of the stupidest things America has ever done.

[19Morton77]

I don't think they'll really do anything. Doesn't California need the cash this generates? Colorado certainly does.

Biggest substance abuse issues are with real pharmacies.

These are labeled non profit organizations. Many are a front for organized crime and money laundering. Many of the medical pot users have no medical need for it. It is a total joke and I voted for it when it was up as a proposition. Pot heads need to get the marijuana the old fashion way, grow it or buy it on the corner.

[Quoydogs]

They made the Portland Market shut down. Then The market threatened them with a law suit and no more problems. Back to 150 and ounce for me., :egbgb:

[rbackfactory80]

Fed cash grab time.

[R8R H8R]

16 pot dispensaries? That's it? There must be 16 dispensaries just in my area and I do not live in a metro area.

I agree with others that there are much more important issues that this country is facing than medical marijuana dispensories.

But speaking of the war on drugs, if they put as much time and energy into tracking down and closing major meth labs, they would actually be doing something I could support, and they might even save some lives.

[Popps]

Glad we're spending our tax dollars on this. Very important. Nearly as important as shutting down online poker.

I just feel safer now.

[tsiguy96]

yall wonder why ron paul wants to limit the federal govt's power, because **** like this happens. of all the things america can possibly be doing, they are trying to shut down state-wide legal pot shops.

[DenverBrit]

This should help CA's unemployment and budget deficit. ::)

Don't the Fed's have anything important to do? If not, let's cut back their budget, downsize the bureaucracy and save some money.

[baja]

Ya gotta keep it illegal, prices will fall otherwise and the banks that control the federal government don't want that. They launder 500 billion a year for the Mexican cartels. well the cartels that launder with them that is, you know the ones that got the guns from Fast & Furious to kill off rival cartels that use South American banks.

Why do you think they never consider legalizing drugs? Too much money involved.

[UberBroncoMan]

Cartels give this a thumbs up.

[Rohirrim]

It's always fun to watch militarized swat teams, all in black vests and helmets, attacking pot smokers with flash bangs and tazers. Hell, maybe some of those pot heads will reach for a cell phone or something and they can light them up with their M16s? I hope there's video.

[Smiling Assassin27]

Glad we're spending our tax dollars on this. Very important. Nearly as important as shutting down online poker.

I just feel safer now.

This. And hey, that Congress we elected to hammer out legislation decided that voting on censure of Rick Perry via a resolution denouncing his hunting ranch rock episode was just too important. Introduced by the son of the dude that brought us Hymie-town.

Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. submitted a resolution today in the House of Representatives to “call on Rick Perry to apologize for not immediately doing away with the rock that contained the word ‘N*****head’ at the entrance of a ranch he was leasing on and which he was taking friends, colleagues and supporters to hunt.”

The Illinois Democrat took to the House floor today to read the resolution, and recapped the details of a Washington Post article titled, “Rick Perry and a Word Set on Stone,” which revealed details of the Texas governor’s association with a piece of hunting property in Texas, where a slab-like rock read “N*****head” for many years.



Hilarious!

[Garcia Bronco]

okay...This explains alot. I am figuring orton is flying to cali during the week and picking up a huge bag of white zombie and smoking it all before game time on sunday, explains his game and lack of effort.

Ahh we have more dispesensaries in CO than Starbucks locations.

[Garcia Bronco]

There are over 100 places in the US with the name "****erhead" Lol


Anyway,


This is not the bussiness of the federal government, and I hope it goes to the supreme court.

[Bronx33]

This should help CA's unemployment and budget deficit. ::)

Don't the Fed's have anything important to do? If not, let's cut back their budget, downsize the bureaucracy and save some money.


No they have nothing better to do ( its california ) what did you expect everything there is a**backwards.

[TheDave]

There are over 100 places in the US with the name "****erhead" Lol


Anyway,


This is not the bussiness of the federal government, and I hope it goes to the supreme court.

I haven't kept up on the right or left leanings of todays SC... I wonder what happens if this made it to the court as composed.

[Tombstone RJ]

next thing you know the fed gov will tell us we have to recognize gay marriage, yay! Whoop-de-freakin-do!

[Garcia Bronco]

I haven't kept up on the right or left leanings of todays SC... I wonder what happens if this made it to the court as composed.

I think the intellectuals will squash it. Even if they uphold the interstate commerce clause, what does that matter if the pot does not leave the state? That depends on the arguments though.

[Bronx33]

I think the intellectuals will squash it. Even if they uphold the interstate commerce clause, what does that matter if the pot does not leave the state? That depends on the arguments though.


Then after that they go home drink a few makers on the rocks then 2 ambien before bed.

[RunSilentRunDeep]

This is nothing but the Obama administration being the drug companies b****. Can 't have a naturally growing substance that's a cheaper, and often better alternative to the chemical crap the big suits make billions off every year.

[DenverBrit]

Might be worth checking to if big Pharm has made any large donations to Obama recently. ;)

[cutthemdown]

These are labeled non profit organizations. Many are a front for organized crime and money laundering. Many of the medical pot users have no medical need for it. It is a total joke and I voted for it when it was up as a proposition. Pot heads need to get the marijuana the old fashion way, grow it or buy it on the corner.

I agree the shops are a joke. The prices are still crazy, even higher in some cases. Kids think its cool to have all the variety in one spot and therefore smoke and spend even more money. I heard this straight from my HS age nephews who told me several of their 18 yr old friends by the weed at the shop and re-sell it at school.

Also the amount of money it generates is the same either way. Drug dealers spend almost everything they make so the money all end up back in the system.

[Phantom]

"The move comes a little more than two months after the Obama administration toughened its stand on medical marijuana. For two years before that, federal officials had indicated they would not move aggressively against dispensaries in compliance with laws in the 16 states where pot is legal for people with doctors' recommendations. "

Lessening enforcement was one of the few things I applauded him for. Another Obama lie.

As someone else already posted - I guess Obama needed the campaign cash from Big Pharma.