http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/02/13/bogus-fears-about-legalizationthe-imminent-federal-crackdown Comments On: Did Feds Just Announce Plans to "Crack Down" on Legal Pot States? by Dominic Holden en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Posted by fighting4commonsense]]> Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:38:02 -0700 The Stranger US citizens, you can 1) Vote 2) Petition 3) Use your power of jury nullificaiton - a juror can vote to aquit if he or she feels the law is unjust or misapplied. Also, vote with your money - join groups like mpp or norml and buy hemp.
Posted by fighting4commonsense]]> Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:27:59 -0700 The Stranger As a Calif. resident, I supported (as a referendum) Prop. 19 for legalization although it wasn’t well-written and likely didn’t have a legal leg to stand on. What finally swayed me as a new Wash. resident to support I-502 was a Stranger article pointing out how current marijuana laws had been used as a proxy for racial profiling.
This article (http://bit.ly/Zn6tXU) describes a chilling event regarding a dispensary bust in a remote, ultra-conservative town in California (it has a few inaccuracies: the “handful” of residents was well over a hundred, significant in a city of less than 30,000). In the dead of night, NCIS with the assistance of every other police force within 50 miles (not an exaggeration) storm-trooped into the residence at the back of the dispensary, dragging away the residents in their underwear. It was not on Navy property. It was three doors down from my house - nearly 10 miles from the nearest gate entering the Base, and miles outside the City limits.
The dispensary was cleanly and securely run. They had recently obtained a legal ruling enabling them to re-open (as the only dispensary within nearly 100 miles). Would it be too speculative to say this was a politically-driven bust in retaliation for pissing off the very conservative members running the City and Base?
Perhaps not when one considers what also was happening in close proximity to the Base: an illegal cartel grow in one of the BLM wilderness canyons just to the west. The bust occurred just weeks after all BLM personnel were notified by the DEA of the grow and to abstain from entering the canyon for the rest of the year.
Afterwards, meth labs in my neighborhood continued to burn to the ground at the rate of two to three a year – in an area of maybe two hundred homes (Google map “Buttermilk Acres” and count for yourself).
No action was ever taken against the grow.
@13 No pictures exist and no further details have ever been released. This story has nearly disappeared and no one’s heard from the dispensary operators since.

Posted by Smurf Hunter]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:35:41 -0800 The Stranger As a Calif. resident, I supported (as a referendum) Prop. 19 for legalization although it wasn’t well-written and likely didn’t have a legal leg to stand on. What finally swayed me as a new Wash. resident to support I-502 was a Stranger article pointing out how current marijuana laws had been used as a proxy for racial profiling.
This article (http://bit.ly/Zn6tXU) describes a chilling event regarding a dispensary bust in a remote, ultra-conservative town in California (it has a few inaccuracies: the “handful” of residents was well over a hundred, significant in a city of less than 30,000). In the dead of night, NCIS with the assistance of every other police force within 50 miles (not an exaggeration) storm-trooped into the residence at the back of the dispensary, dragging away the residents in their underwear. It was not on Navy property. It was three doors down from my house - nearly 10 miles from the nearest gate entering the Base, and miles outside the City limits.
The dispensary was cleanly and securely run. They had recently obtained a legal ruling enabling them to re-open (as the only dispensary within nearly 100 miles). Would it be too speculative to say this was a politically-driven bust in retaliation for pissing off the very conservative members running the City and Base?
Perhaps not when one considers what also was happening in close proximity to the Base: an illegal cartel grow in one of the BLM wilderness canyons just to the west. The bust occurred just weeks after all BLM personnel were notified by the DEA of the grow and to abstain from entering the canyon for the rest of the year.
Afterwards, meth labs in my neighborhood continued to burn to the ground at the rate of two to three a year – in an area of maybe two hundred homes (Google map “Buttermilk Acres” and count for yourself).
No action was ever taken against the grow.
@13 No pictures exist and no further details have ever been released. This story has nearly disappeared and no one’s heard from the dispensary operators since.

Posted by Smurf Hunter]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:32:54 -0800 The Stranger
People don't realize how in love with marijuana prohibition our Government is, it's their main (and most time only) way to storm into citizen's private business.
Posted by Coinspinner]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:38:39 -0800 The Stranger
The DEA has a track record of busting distributors after assets have been accumulated, so they can confiscate the assets.

Melinda Haag is trying to confiscate a damn hospital dispensary, shameless Jezebel.

Kerfrag-what's-his-name is fearing for his job. It's been discussed over and over that pot busts are the easiest.

I'm not buying it. PLEASE SOMEBODY PROVE ME WRONG.

Everybody has a disclaimer. I don't smoke, but wish I had time to. Some day I will have time.

I need to add a second note. I am in Washington. It's really important for everyone in this state and CO to not be stupid about this new freedom, and not give the naysayers any ammunition against the movement. Do your research. Watch countries that have legalized. Gain learn from their experiences.
Posted by Bridget_Waters]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:37:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Unbrainwashed]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:24:27 -0800 The Stranger Posted by watchout5]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:28:55 -0800 The Stranger
Eternal vigilance, and all of that...


Posted by bleedingheartlibertarian]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:43:10 -0800 The Stranger
Also, any grow op within 100 miles of the border.
Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:01:33 -0800 The Stranger
live stream: http://new.livestream.com/blueroomstream…

live blog:
http://capitolfax.com/2013/02/14/live-se…

another live stream:

http://www.ilga.gov/senate/audvid.asp
Posted by passionate_jus]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:33:21 -0800 The Stranger Posted by But you don't really care, do you?]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:32:20 -0800 The Stranger Posted by pupuguru]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:13:17 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Dr_Awesome]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:13:09 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Dr_Awesome]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:11:20 -0800 The Stranger Posted by theophrastus]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:09:02 -0800 The Stranger Posted by fletc3her]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:47:28 -0800 The Stranger @2) While I agree that the feds may file an injunction against the states at some point, or they could prosecute folks who have licenses to grow and sell, I just want to be clear that that's not what Kerlikowske said. It's dishonest for any media outlet to misrepresent it that way.

Posted by Dominic Holden]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:42:05 -0800 The Stranger
But I'm still really skeptical that the feds are going to keep their hands off. Obama said he'd leave users alone, and I don't think he chose his words carelessly. A state licensed store selling weed would/will meet every federal definition of a "distributor" and no one has said that they are going to leave distributors alone.

I sincerely hope I am wrong. And I stand behind what we're doing here in WA. But it's going to be interesting times here, one way or another.
Posted by bleedingheartlibertarian]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:35:48 -0800 The Stranger Posted by wxPDX]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:32:43 -0800 The Stranger