On Monday – agents with the DEA and IRS raided Oaksterdam University – a school in California that teaches students how to grow marijuana and offers classes on the legal issues of marijuana cultivation. Despite operating well-within the legal boundaries of California state law which allows for the growing of marijuana for medical purposes – the school was vulnerable to a federal raid since any sort of marijuana cultivation or use is still against federal law. When President Obama first came into office – he announced that his administration would no longer infringe on state laws that had legalized medicinal marijuana. Unfortunately – this raid against Oaksterdam University is just the latest federal crackdown on legal marijuana dispensaries in California and other states by federal agents. The President needs to ditch Richard Nixon's failed drug war and adopt some common sense drug laws that don't turn sick people into criminals for taking their medication.
If you watch the advertising on TV, the drugs the government allows Dr's to medicate with have far more adverse affects than many illegal drugs.
ReplyDeleteDrugs that have potenial suicide and or possible death are OK. Not one person EVER OD'd on marijauna. Facts.
Many have gave up on the 10 to 20 addictive drugs prescibed by doctors. Instead of taking twenty different pills a day, they smoke only marijuana.
Dr's will prescibe just about anything to someone with cancer or AIDS, at their request. If people with terminal illness would rather smoke marijuana instead of Oxycotin, who cares?
Roosevelt got prohibtion reversed because it was costing too much money, lives, feeding organized crime with wealth, power and able to bribe corrupt lawmakers. Then taxed alcohol to help the country out of the Great Depression. Duh