The DEA has gone rogue. Despite clear guidance from the Department of Justice directing them to do otherwise, agents are conducting raids of homes and businesses where the occupants are acting in compliance with state medical marijuana laws.
These agents are storming onto the property of law-abiding citizens with guns drawn, destroying marijuana plants being grown for patients, stealing computers and cash, and even leaving trash on the floor behind them when they are done.
A recent raid in Mendocino County, California targeted a woman who had filed formal paperwork to grow medical marijuana, had paid a $1,050 application fee under the local ordinance, and whose operation had been inspected and approved by the local sheriff. When informed about this, the DEA agent in charge said, "I don't care what the sheriff says."
It is only a matter of time before one of these raids ends tragically with someone seriously injured or killed.
One woman is responsible for all of this. Her name is Michele Leonhart. She became the acting-administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration under George W. Bush and was shockingly nominated by President Obama to be the permanent head of the agency. She clearly has no respect for authority at the Department of Justice and is equally willing to use federal law enforcement power to trample on states' rights.
Yesterday, MPP and its allies called on President Obama to withdraw this nomination. We are hoping you will join us.
We have set up this page where you can send an e-mail to the White House, urging the President to withdraw the nomination. The pre-written e-mail we provide -- which you can modify -- also mentions that Leonhart has personally obstructed research into the therapeutic benefits of marijuana by denying an application from the University of Massachusetts to cultivate marijuana for this purpose.
Michele Leonhart does not deserve to be DEA administrator. Please take action so that President Obama gets this message.
NewsHawk: Ganjarden: 420 MAGAZINE
Source: Marijuana Policy Project
Copyright: 2010 Marijuana Policy Project
* Thanks to MedicalNeed for submitting this article
These agents are storming onto the property of law-abiding citizens with guns drawn, destroying marijuana plants being grown for patients, stealing computers and cash, and even leaving trash on the floor behind them when they are done.
A recent raid in Mendocino County, California targeted a woman who had filed formal paperwork to grow medical marijuana, had paid a $1,050 application fee under the local ordinance, and whose operation had been inspected and approved by the local sheriff. When informed about this, the DEA agent in charge said, "I don't care what the sheriff says."
It is only a matter of time before one of these raids ends tragically with someone seriously injured or killed.
One woman is responsible for all of this. Her name is Michele Leonhart. She became the acting-administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration under George W. Bush and was shockingly nominated by President Obama to be the permanent head of the agency. She clearly has no respect for authority at the Department of Justice and is equally willing to use federal law enforcement power to trample on states' rights.
Yesterday, MPP and its allies called on President Obama to withdraw this nomination. We are hoping you will join us.
We have set up this page where you can send an e-mail to the White House, urging the President to withdraw the nomination. The pre-written e-mail we provide -- which you can modify -- also mentions that Leonhart has personally obstructed research into the therapeutic benefits of marijuana by denying an application from the University of Massachusetts to cultivate marijuana for this purpose.
Michele Leonhart does not deserve to be DEA administrator. Please take action so that President Obama gets this message.
NewsHawk: Ganjarden: 420 MAGAZINE
Source: Marijuana Policy Project
Copyright: 2010 Marijuana Policy Project
* Thanks to MedicalNeed for submitting this article
