Dear President Obama,
You have better things to do.
Here we go again. Montana marijuana farmers facing 40 years in federal prison. Here’s some more. And there are more, all over.
The famed “Holder memo“, expertly crafted to raise hopes and then destroy lives, has now been clarified, to ensure everyone understands that the United States federal government will attack anyone who tries to run a responsible and ethical business that involves farming and selling cannabis. They say it’s a bad use of “resources” to go after patients dying of cancer and AIDS (who could disagree?), but anyone who grows and sells risks the full and violent force of the DEA, IRS, FBI, etc.
Meanwhile, 58% of voters in the West believe marijuana should be legal for grown-ups, Montanans consume 30,000 pounds a year, and are generally eager to be taxed for the privilege of “getting legal” and diverting their financial support of the criminal black market to legitimate local businesses.
If I was king for a day? First, I’d direct the feds (with their 104,000 cops in 80 agencies) to focus our tax dollars on some other categories of crime:
- Prevent extremists of any flavor from blowing up innocent people on American soil.
- Chase down domestic murderers and rapists.
- Nail some fraudsters, cheats, thieves, and scammers.
- Monitor registered sex offenders.
- Hold companies responsible for poisoning our environment accountable for their actions.
- Prosecute hate crimes.
- Imprison the leaders of corporate juggernauts who pillage the public good, for their personal profit.
- Go after rich people who break the law to avoid paying taxes.
That’s a short list I came up with in 15 minutes. There are proper, useful, just roles for federal law enforcement. I want my tax dollars to fight these crimes.
Arresting and incarcerating cannabis farmers providing an agricultural commodity to responsible adults doesn’t make the list. So, stop, please.
Agree? The audience for our objections includes several elected officials. Please give them a (polite) piece of your mind, and ask them to stand up for Montanans who have participated responsibly in the Montana medical marijuana marketplace. Ask Denny Rehberg (our federal Representative, call (202) 225-3211 right now) to support HR 2306, which would end federal marijuana prohibition.
Ask Baucus and Tester (call both right now), our Montana Senators, to pressure the Department of Justice and the Obama administration to leave Montana alone when it comes to marijuana. We’re Montanans, we’ll figure it out, please give us the freedom to do so without your federal guns blazing.
And tell the Obama administration: After your statements during the campaign, Montanans are deeply disappointed in your hypocrisy. Stop it.
The federal/state conflict question is an important one, and now that our neighbors continue to be rounded up and threatened with being carted off to federal prison, now’s the time for you to speak up. Please take action, now.
You’re hired. This is appaling behavoir. He got asked a TON of marijuana related questions during that twitter town hall publicity stunt. go to twitter.com and search for marijuana + #askobama It’s mindblowing how he avoided all those questions. What a joke. A sad, tired joke.
I also wrote about this on the Hot Box, maybe you can post a link to it or something.
http://hotboxpodcast.com/?p=430
•Prevent extremists of any flavor from blowing up innocent people on American soil.
-THEY CONSIDER US EXTREMISTS.
•Chase down domestic murderers and rapists.
-Ok, that works.
•Nail some fraudsters, cheats, thieves, and scammers.
-Yep, fine.
•Monitor registered sex offenders.
-Special catagories or “Courts” rub me the wrong way, crime is crime.
•Hold companies responsible for poisoning our environment accountable for their actions.
-Real poisons and carcinogens, not basic necessities of life like Co2.
•Prosecute hate crimes.
-again special catagories… crime is crime, hate crime is PC BS.
•Imprison the leaders of corporate juggernauts who pillage the public good, for their personal profit.
-See you just slapped another label on yourself that could be read as “EXTREMIST.”
•Go after rich people who break the law to avoid paying taxes.
-TOTAL EXTREMIST NOW. How about we go after the huge banks, the Fed, the IMF, ect. for raping the people’s wealth, with the government’s help?
Oh and btw your tax dollars pay for very little other than the interest on the national debt, you, and your children and their children and so on, are the collateral for this debt.
I am fast running out of excuses for this President. He is within an inch of chasing me to the Green party. As things stand i have quit donating money to Obama and the Democratic Party and I will NOT be spending 200 hours making phone calls, stuffing envelopes and walking door to door campaigning for him.
I believe the bill to end federal prohibition of marijuna is HR 2835 . Climate change is HR 2306.
Mr. Obama has proven time & time again that he is a liar & a hypocrite by continuing the Fascist Police State Policies of all the Presidential Administrations preceding his.
Thanks Mr. Obama; you have failed us; unlike your promises; it’s just another Bush/ Clinton/ Bush/ Reagan/ Nixon (insert crooked U.S. President here) administration.
Thanks for continuing the wars for the bankers; thanks for bailing out the crooked Wall street corps. & bankers; thanks for continuing our Fascist Police State, thanks for NOTHING.
Hey Skekzyz,
CO2 from fossil fuels is a very real threat to our families safety. Its not the same CO2 you breath out and it seams as if plants are having a very hard time consuming it. Or so the research done by our by our very own Nobel prize winner here at the University would suggest. His research even hit the the C.S. monitor. http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2010/0820/As-plant-productivity-dips-a-search-for-answers
I would love to see Obama on a late night show like Conan O’Brien along with a celebrity that supports Marijuana, like Zach Galifianakis for example and have him ask Obama, live on tv, to legalize weed. I bet that would get media attention like crazy and would be a GIANT step towards legalization. Who does that I would consider the Rosa Parks of weed prohibition.
SWITCH THE FIRST TWO LETTERS OF OPTIMISM AND YOU GET POTIMISM!
Potimism-[pot-uh-miz-uhm]- noun
. The belief that marijuana will become legal no matter how unlikely it seems and there are positive ways around the excuses people give saying it can’t be legal.
Tell your friends! Let’s make this viral!
TEN REASONS WHY I HAVE POTIMISM
1. A disposition to look at the medical/financial benefits of marijuana and the good it will bring by making it legal.
2. The belief it can be used responsibly like alcohol, except it’s much safer.
3. Marijuana prohibition has overall failed and there are reasons it needs to be legal. Having more people vote yes on propositions that would make marijuana more available would help.
4. To know that if it was sold in stores, weed would not be considered a” gateway drug” due to the fact that some dealers who sell marijuana also sell hard drugs like cocaine and heroin, making it an easy access to its use. This would also make it harder for minors to get it since there would be an age limit.
5. To know the Reefer Madness generation was a time when people were brainwashed by the government to believe that marijuana has more negative side effects than it really does and that it leads to making bad decisions like murder, which is not true. The movie Reefer Madness, which exploits these untrue lies and was made for the purpose of having people oppose weed, has “Tell your children” in text at the end which sadly to say many have, leading to a chain of generations to believing it is worse than it really is. Thankfully this chain is weakening and more people are starting to realize the truth about weed.
6. To know that alcohol is the driving force in a number of public and domestic disputes which can lower if more people smoked marijuana instead of drinking alcohol.
7. That drug lords who operate marijuana rings can start their own legal business if marijuana became legal. (why not?)
8. Knowing that it being illegal is causing violence to go up due to drug wars. This would go down significantly if the plant was legal.
9. It had other uses such as oil and clothing.
10. Our fore fathers, like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, grew marijuana and our last three presidents have smoked weed.
LET’S KILL THE TABOO AND HAVE OPPOSERS START HAVING A NEW MINDSET ON MARIJUANA!
what are the lawyers doing about the rest of the injunction process?
Awaiting trial, some time this winter.
Need to set up a booth at the farmers market to sign the petition.With a big sign. We have began some signature gathering. The weather needs to cooperate.Please getr done everyone.
Just a suggestion; without any constructive implication or conclusions of law by me, and supported solely by the statutes with the federal drug laws of 21 U.S.C. 801/904, I am able to prove to any reasonable thinking person or guru of Constitution Law, that THERE IS NO Congressional enacted federal criminal statute that would PROHIBIT, FORBID, or make it UNLAWFUL for any person at random to buy, sell, use, or abuse, marijuana, heroin, cocaine, or controlled substances! To be precise, the executive and judicial branch of the government of the United States have operated America’s luciferian and moralistic “WAR on DRUGS” against any person at random under the most repugnant FRAUD ever conducted by a government against their own people in the History of the World! Wouldn’t it be better to legally and constitutionally END the government’s FRAUD of over 40-years for everybody?
This is not a joke and I can prove it!