FEDS STIR THE MED POT.
The USDOJ is releasing a three-page document that will clear up all the problems local governments are facing with the med pot clinics. The net result will be even more confusion and lack of specificity on exactly what constitutes legal and illegal production, transportation, distribution, possession, sales and use.
And where there's confusion, there will be profit.
Nobody seems to be able to articulate a clear policy that addresses the glaring holes that let illegal operators move their product through the "legal" outlets.
It's clear that local, state and federal governments do not want to be in the pot business. They don't even want to be in the pot regulation business for the simple reason that pot regulation will in all probability suck them right into the heart of the business. It's a case of being a little bit pregnant. In a business fraught with all the financial, criminal and political landmines of a recreational drug, the politicians see all too clearly the possibility of stepping on a five hundred pounder.
There's only two ways this can go. One is to completely legalize pot and remove all penalties for production, transport, sales etc. The other is to have the government license a few giant agri-businesses to grow enough pot to satisfy demand and regulate the hell out of it all the way to the end user.
Neither of those options are likely. And the middle course which is now being pursued isn't making anyone happy. Except some high volume smugglers, that is. This is going to get a lot more entertaining before it's all over. And the money will continue to flow into criminal orgs until somebody comes up with a brilliant idea.
Monday, October 19, 2009
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Absolutely Wally. You nailed it.
Obama announced today the feds are going to stop raiding pot clinics. Ha ha! Wally, take this as a sign to move on. Adapt to your time. Most people find marijuana harmless anymore. That's what's funny about conservatives, you guys think everyone thinks like you. If that were the case, you'd have to think McCain/Palin would have scored a little better a year ago. Pot's here to stay, Wally. Smoke one and relax, or live and let live. Find a new cause.
the thing is obama used to smoke primos in college thats why hes cool with it ...
whats next legalization of crack !
See? ^^^ Equating marijuana to crack = out of touch with Americans today. Keep digging your own hole.
whats next legalization of crack !
Nah, clinton would've done that.
Please not to raise the Clinton era drug wars. They took a backseat to Hollywood schmoozing and Oval Office hyjinx, but everybody knows that. Meanwhile The remnants of Oliver North's plot to flood the streets with cheap cocaine was running it's course. Marijuana since way before that time was gaining acceptance. It actually progressed to a point where a Presidential candidate admitted having smoked the herb, but didn't inhale. Those were good times! Now if a guy doesn't inhale it'll cost him at least five bucks! This inflation and national recognition, if not acceptance of weed, is what attracts the darker elements. Sad but true. Good old American marketing has laid another rotten egg.
obama knows NELA. he went to occidental college. that guy knows whats up
Just to hammer home Wally's point about mexican drug cartels, just read this. The result of open borders and lack of immigration enforcement.
http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/226
Over the past two days, 303 individuals in 19 states were arrested as part of Project Coronado – a 44-month multi-agency law enforcement investigation, which targeted the distribution network of a major Mexican drug trafficking organization known as La Familia, through coordination between federal, state and local law enforcement.
More than 3,000 agents and officers operated across the United States to make the arrests during the two-day takedown. During the two-day operation alone, $3.4 million in U.S. currency, 729 pounds of methamphetamine, 62 kilograms of cocaine, 967 pounds of marijuana, 144 weapons and 109 vehicles were seized by law enforcement agents. Below, a look at Project Coronado, and the overall numbers of this 44-month operation.
967 pounds of marijuana? Too bad they got caught.
WOW!! "La Familia" drug cartel a rival to the "mexican Mafia" drug cartel. What a coincidence.
You got some great comments over at wla.
Wally didn't put those up! It was the charlatan multi-personality minor hack-boy we used to call stillnoscript grinding out his simply unravelled webs of intrigue and tomfoolery. What a knucklehead!
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