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Feds Take New Action in Crackdown on Dispensaries
Posted by CN Staff on August 21, 2012 at 17:18:11 PT
By The Associated Press
Source: Associated Press
Los Angeles -- Federal prosecutors on Tuesday expanded their crackdown on California medical marijuana dispensaries, filing three lawsuits and sending warning letters to more than 60 clinics in two Orange County cities.The asset-forfeiture lawsuits filed against landlords who own buildings that house six marijuana shops in Anaheim and the letters order the closure of the clinics or possible criminal charges will be filed.
More than 300 pot stores and grows have been targeted in the Central District of California, which stretches from Santa Barbara to San Bernardino counties, since October when the state’s four U.S. attorneys announced an effort to curb dispensaries.Prosecutors argue dealers and suppliers are using the state’s medical pot law, approved in 1996, as legal cover for running sophisticated drug-trafficking ventures in plain sight. Marijuana remains illegal under federal law.Medical marijuana advocates argue the collectives are protected by California law, which allows the drug to be cultivated and supplied to ill people on a nonprofit basis.The crackdown comes amid a shift by municipalities and law enforcement agencies that say the clinics are abusing the law and in some cases overrunning neighborhoods. Last month, the Los Angeles City Council voted to ban as many as 900 storefront dispensaries in the coming weeks.A medical marijuana trade group has since sued the city, claiming the ban violated constitutional rights. Activists are also working to qualify a ballot measure to repeal the ban.In all, 66 warning letters were sent to marijuana dispensaries in Anaheim and La Habra. Some have closed recently, but federal authorities said 38 remain open.Source: Associated Press (Wire)Published: August 21, 2012 Copyright: 2012 The Associated PressCannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml
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Comment #21 posted by Hope on August 31, 2012 at 13:24:03 PT
Oh man!
What a sweet experience!
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Comment #20 posted by FoM on August 30, 2012 at 17:55:24 PT
On a Lighter Note
I was walking the puppy tonight in the fields and this fawn came up to check her out. If we all could try to be friends instead of acting like pickles what a nice world it would be.
Fawn Meets Puppy
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Comment #19 posted by Hope on August 29, 2012 at 09:17:51 PT
Sinsemilla Jones.. comment 17
I know! We're not supposed to have to... but I'm beginning to kind of expect it to pop up around every corner.
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Comment #18 posted by afterburner on August 28, 2012 at 19:06:50 PT
Mitt's Job Creation Plan Revealed [satire]
Here it is:[click here]
http://www.hbicollege.com/assets/images/slider/police-foundations01.pngOR"Legalize Freedom" -musemanIt's your choice, people: it's your future. Make the most of it.Sustainability or exploitation: ego transcendence or ego destruction, that is the question!
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Comment #17 posted by Sinsemilla Jones on August 28, 2012 at 07:18:23 PT
Hope #12
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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Comment #16 posted by ekim on August 27, 2012 at 15:02:38 PT
its been shown at many film festivals
if anyone knows of a upcoming film fest it might get
shown.
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Comment #15 posted by Hope on August 27, 2012 at 14:38:01 PT
I will watch it if it comes on TV.
I seldom go to the movies.
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Comment #14 posted by Hope on August 27, 2012 at 14:25:33 PT
It ought to make quite the TV Special.
Looks highly disturbing. Some people, a lot of people, truly need to get disturbed about all this. I don't though. I probably won't watch it. I've been disturbed for a long time.:0)It's true. I have.
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Comment #13 posted by Hope on August 27, 2012 at 14:22:33 PT
That video...
It won't play through for me. It starts off ominous and then moves on to demonic... and it sounds like one (a demon) is talking ... !!!! Then it stops.*surprise face*
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Comment #12 posted by Hope on August 27, 2012 at 14:17:46 PT
My gosh, Afterburner!
I hadn't looked at that trailer!It's like the Spanish Inquisition!No one would expect that.
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Comment #11 posted by afterburner on August 26, 2012 at 21:55:20 PT
ekim #5 - I'm Looking Forward to Code of the West
[My comments in square brackets below:][Quotes from the antagonists in] the Trailer [for] Code of the West:
{
"It's poison, a kind of poison.""These kinds of things open people up to demonic influence."
}
http://www.codeofthewestfilm.com/trailer[These guys must be overly influenced by Pope Innocent VIII who was anything but innocent, banning a holy herb used by the Essenes (whom Jesus visited according to Biblical scholars) and St. Mark, the writer of the second Gospel, who "establishe[d] the Ethiopian Coptic Church" (see below).]****************************************The UK Cannabis Internet Activists Website: Website of the Legalise Cannabis UK Campaigns. Cannabis Information and UK Cannabis, UK campaigning for hemp, marijuana , cannabis.A Cannabis Chronology [excerpts]
http://www.ukcia.org/culture/history/chrono.php
{
This timeline was originally written by Rob Christopher for the launch of UKCIA (UK Cannabis Internet Activist - Cannabis Information Site) in 1995. It has been continued since then by Derek of UKCIAAD 45St Mark establishes the Ethiopian Coptic Church. The Copts claim that marijuana as a sacrament has a lineage descending from the Jewish sect, the Essenes, who are considered to be responsible for the Dead Sea Scrolls.1484Pope Innocent VIII singles out cannabis as an unholy sacrament of the Satanic mass.
}St. Mark - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=305
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Comment #10 posted by The GCW on August 24, 2012 at 18:01:53 PT
ekim,
ekim, thanks for the poll.
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Comment #9 posted by Hope on August 24, 2012 at 09:54:31 PT
Check out this lovely woman at
http://www.codeofthewestfilm.com/community/Joan_RichmanWhen I read this : .... But one disagreed and offered this caution: “You have no idea what you would be unleashing.” I think that person that responded thus to her is really the one that "Has no idea". Unbelievable!Unleashing? That's outrageous, truly baseless, insane paranoia.When people talk like that, they have no real explanation for such statements. But they believe it. It's so strange.
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Comment #8 posted by Hope on August 24, 2012 at 09:36:29 PT
Robin is not forgotten.
I wish she'd had the will to keep trying.The fire bombing of the dispensary there is still one of the most disturbing things prohibitionists have done in their unnatural anger at medical use of cannabis.
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Comment #7 posted by Sinsemilla Jones on August 23, 2012 at 18:22:51 PT
R.I.P. Robin
As FoM said to me the other day, "It's good to remember."
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Comment #6 posted by afterburner on August 23, 2012 at 09:55:43 PT
Montana - ekim #5
Remember Robin (mbc)! She tried to change the law. She tried to get relief from her pain. She was hounded by the so-called "good" folks of Montana. We will never forget your cruelty, Montana. "Forgive and forget" is not an option as long as this persecution continues. Jesus said, "Go and sin no more." These Montana prohibitionists continue to sin, so we cannot yet forgive them!!! We can only pray that they will see the light.
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Comment #5 posted by ekim on August 23, 2012 at 06:34:03 PT
found at the first story on cnbc link
http://www.codeofthewestfilm.com/film
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Comment #4 posted by afterburner on August 22, 2012 at 23:29:38 PT
ekim #3
Says Fox of the Marijuana Policy Project: “Whether they like to admit it or not, current federal actions are hurting individual patients and funding the criminals they
are supposed to be targeting."
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Comment #3 posted by ekim on August 22, 2012 at 10:58:12 PT
please vote on cannabis poll
http://www.cnbc.com/id/47017135
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Comment #2 posted by HempWorld on August 21, 2012 at 18:38:46 PT
I messed up on the link, here it is:
http://hempworld.com/hemp-cyberfarm_com/htms/conspiracy/backgrounds.html
Here is the real link!
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Comment #1 posted by HempWorld on August 21, 2012 at 18:36:45 PT
Knock, knock ... who is there?
THE GESTAPO! aka, Rocky Inc. I.G. Farben etc.
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