Pirates of the DEA
If you're one-eyed, hook-handed and don't mind a federal parrot screeching dicta in your ear, then there's a job for you. Hundreds of boxes of cannabis-laced sweets and thousands of cannabis plants were seized on 16 March in five simultaneous(Source: Bulletin of the IACM April 2nd 2006.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) raids in three Californian cities (Oakland, Emeryville, Lafayette).
Medical cannabis advocates pointed out that these were legitimate medical cannabis manufacturers under California law. The packaging of the sweets came complete with nutrition labels and dosage recommendations as well as a note that they were intended for medical use only.
Their source: The Oakland Tribune of 17 March 2006.)
From the same bulletin, an educational note for federal job applicants (like Supreme Court judges, who continue to deny cannabis's efficacy):
Clinical study data published in March 2006 show that both a cannabis extract and isolated THC caused a significant reduction in incontinence compared to placebo in 630 multiple sclerosis patients.
posted by deCinabre at 8:23 PM
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Yes, more shit behaviour from public servants. It seems the DA and the law enforcement officer who 'repeatedly requested it' (and in a school zone!) are the actual offenders.
"What that jury did not know, was that the District Attorney was including a school zone sentencing enhancement in the charges that would send Lawrence to jail for a mandatory 2 years with no chance of parole."
That reminds me of Ed Rosenthal's trial for growing medical cannabis, where the jury were not told that what he was doing was legal under California law; the judge ruled it inadmissible. Upon learning the truth, several jurors called for a new trial.
"There are violent and serious criminals across Berkshire County that are going un-prosecuted because DA David Capeless is choosing to use precious law enforcement, judicial and prosecutorial resources to send a first-time offender to jail for over two years for the crime of selling a very small amount of marijuana to an adult who repeatedly requested it."
Yet more slyness, deceit and low principles in our trusted guardians.
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