[megayields]

We received word Wednesday that seven medical marijuana dispensaries permitted by the City of San Francisco are being investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration. In Sept. 2012, D.E.A. agent David White requested from San Francisco the public records of: Ketama Collective; Igzactly 420; 1944 Ocean Collective; The Hemp Center; Mr. Purple Skunk; The Apothecarium; and Bernal Heights Collective.

White requested each dispensary’s business license and application, health permit and application, ownership information, yearly statements/forms (i.e., not for profit, affirmation of not crossing state lines, etc.). White is a Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration Financial Investigative Team in the San Francisco Field Division.


Drug Enforcement Administration
This week, news broke that the D.E.A. is trying to force the closure of at least one of the targeted dispensaries, The Hemp Center. The Hemp Center’s landlord is being threatened with 40 years prison, property forfeiture, and asset seizure for renting office space to The Hemp Center, sources say. At least four landlords in San Jose received similar letters Friday.

San Francisco has permitted about 15 dispensaries. There are perhaps one hundred dispensaries open in San Jose, where citizens passed marijuana sales tax Measure U in 2010. California legalized marijuana for qualified patients, caregivers, and collectives in 1996 and 2003. Marijuana has been federally illegal since 1937, when bureaucrats in Washington D.C. started a war on marijuana based on racism and misinformation.

In 2009, President Obama said prosecuting state-legal medical cannabis patients should not be a priority of the Department of Justice. In 2011, the Department of Justice clarified that marijuana businesses were still a priority – regardless if they comply with state law.

In October 2011, Haag and three other US Attorneys declared war on California’s estimated $1.3 billion medical marijuana industry, threatening hundreds of landlords with forfeiture. Hundreds of dispensaries across the state moved or closed, including several beloved S.F. clubs like The Vapor Room – which is delivery-only – and Medithrive.


Castro District dispensary The Apothecarium could be shut down by Washington D.C. officials (via Yelp)
Last year, California Gov. Jerry Brown denounced the crackdown, saying California didn’t need “federal gendarmes” interfering with lawful tax-paying businesses.

In January, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano told a San Francisco crowd that Haag had “gone rogue.” He called the landlord threats “drone strikes”, and added “I’m sorry a house fell on her sister,” alluding to the wicked witch in The Wizard of Oz.

Last week, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom called for decriminalizing, regulating, and taxing California’s decades-old, multi-billion dollar marijuana industry.

The latest polls show almost two out of three Americans agree that federal authorities should leave state-legal marijuana alone. Almost three out of four Americans agree the estimated $7.6 billion federal war on pot each year costs more than it is worth.

The new threats this week follow a federal threats against all dispensaries open in Santa Ana, CA. last week, as well as the raid of a San Diego dispensary who had an operating agreement with the City of San Diego. The DEA also threatened 11 medical marijuana clubs in Seattle.

The California chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) denounced the threats as yet another indication of the bankruptcy of federal marijuana policy.

“Despite the sequester, Newtown, and the Boston bombing, the Obama administration still insists in meddling in medical marijuana issues that properly belong to local authorities,” stated Cal NORML director Dale Gieringer.

More news as we get it.

[Lex Dysic]

FTF!!

BS like this can make one's blood boil....

Hats Off to all the folks in Cali fighting the good fight against the DC BORG!!

[Drift13]

F*ck all the alphabet gangs! With some luck we the American people will be handing out pink slips(loss of job)to most all of these *ssholes.

[Vegan]

Unreal the lengths the gov goes to fuck the people

[Tudo]

If a Ron Paul administration would have been in place and if RP supporters would have shown at least a tiny bit of backbone to do so ( if you're not willing to fight for it you're not going to get it because nobody's gonna give it away ), it would already with the stroke of a pen been changed . But the majority of people seem to really like to continue to support the liars, cheats, and murderers in both democrat and republican parties whether it's because they think they're going to get something or other motive. But they are surprised and complain when this kind of thing happens. Kinda like the younger folk volunteering for the military and then whining about being lied to or some nonsense.

Therefore we get what we deserve not what we want.

[D.C. Denali]

Originally Posted by Tudo

If a Ron Paul administration would have been in place and if RP supporters would have shown at least a tiny bit of backbone to do so ( if you're not willing to fight for it you're not going to get it because nobody's gonna give it away ), it would already with the stroke of a pen been changed . But the majority of people seem to really like to continue to support the liars, cheats, and murderers in both democrat and republican parties whether it's because they think they're going to get something or other motive. But they are surprised and complain when this kind of thing happens. Kinda like the younger folk volunteering for the military and then whining about being lied to or some nonsense.

Therefore we get what we deserve not what we want.

Are you at all familiar with politics? Government?

Ron Paul?

Ron Paul never had, never will have a chance to change a thing.

Obama generated RECORD amounts of campaign dollars, both elections (broke his own record), and then proceeded to utilize elements of the government, i.e. - IRS and one of the alphabet soup organizations (targeting journalists as co-conspirators in some bs case about leaking sensitive information, though he was only doing very typical news reporting duties) to target his opposition.

He bought the presidency, both times. And seeks illegal means to retain his ridiculous agenda.

Ron Paul did nothing but motivate idealists to nominal proportions.

Sorry, friend.

D.C.

[Tudo]

Originally Posted by D.C. Denali

Are you at all familiar with politics? Government?

Ron Paul?

Ron Paul never had, never will have a chance to change a thing.

Obama generated RECORD amounts of campaign dollars, both elections (broke his own record), and then proceeded to utilize elements of the government, i.e. - IRS and one of the alphabet soup organizations (targeting journalists as co-conspirators in some bs case about leaking sensitive information, though he was only doing very typical news reporting duties) to target his opposition.

He bought the presidency, both times. And seeks illegal means to retain his ridiculous agenda.

Ron Paul did nothing but motivate idealists to nominal proportions.

Sorry, friend.

D.C.

And that's why it is the way it is. We are fucked then according to you. Then Enjoy it, you helped create it.

[D.C. Denali]

Originally Posted by Tudo

And that's why it is the way it is. We are fucked then according to you. Then Enjoy it, you helped create it.

I'm sorry, how did I help create it?

I'm combating it through the authoring of theories I have about said subject matter and ideas on how to combat it.

You enjoy it, your delusion I mean, if you really thing Ron Paul is the answer to anything.

Jesus Christo!

[the hollow]

Originally Posted by D.C. Denali

You enjoy it, your delusion I mean

I think you simply enjoy listening to yourself speak.

As your post had nothing to do with his original post and is completely irrelevant in relation to anything he said.

"Ron Paul never had, never will have a chance to change a thing."

How does this have anything to do with what he posted? He never stated that Ron Paul had a "chance" of doing anything. Are you actually planning on making a point, or were you just gonna post again and masturbate while reading your words aloud? lulz

[D.C. Denali]

Originally Posted by the hollow

I think you simply enjoy listening to yourself speak.

As your post had nothing to do with his original post and is completely irrelevant in relation to anything he said.

"Ron Paul never had, never will have a chance to change a thing."

How does this have anything to do with what he posted? He never stated that Ron Paul had a "chance" of doing anything. Are you actually planning on making a point, or were you just gonna post again and masturbate while reading your words aloud? lulz

Right, man. He said, this. Which is very much akin to having a chance of changing the current mode of operation (HARD MODE) which the federal government operates. I'm sorry, but I fail to see how I was off topic? Ron Paul never had a chance to, with or without the backbone of his 4% of the nations support, to enact said change. Try going back up to the top of the thread, re-read it and when you comprehend what's going on in the conversation, come back and apologize for being such an ill-informed individual. Cure that diarrhea mouth, man. LULZ right back at you man. Seriously, you didn't read what he wrote. Or you no understand English... Si'?
"If a Ron Paul administration would have been in place and if RP supporters would have shown at least a tiny bit of backbone to do so ( if you're not willing to fight for it you're not going to get it because nobody's gonna give it away ), it would already with the stroke of a pen been changed "