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obeyed Montana’s medical marijuana laws could get life

hypocritexposer

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This seven minute video from the New York Times shows the story of Chris Williams in Montana. This makes me really glad that I wrote in Ron Paul for President in 2008, and voted for Libertarian Gary Johnson in 2012. I also applaud Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s position on this issue.

For those of you who voted for Obama, well, I hope you’re happy with his actions against medical marijuana. I hope you’re happy that this person could get life in prison. I hope you’re happy that people with AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, and other illnesses, who have prescriptions for medical marijuana from their doctors, are being denied the medicine that they need.

TheNewYorkTimes
Published on 8 Nov 2012

An Op-Doc profiles Chris Williams, a medical marijuana grower in Montana who now faces life in prison.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GKkFL1sTigc

http://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/man-who-obeyed-montanas-medical-marijuana-laws-could-get-life-in-prison-from-obama-administration/
 

Steve

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the United States Supreme court still ruled that Raich’s medical marijuana constituted “interstate commerce.” This ruling, which took place in 2005, is called Gonzales v. Raich. The precedent cited for this ruling is the 1942 case Wickard v. Filburn. Other than the fact that one case was about wheat and the other was about medical marijuana, the two cases are identical.

And if we look at how the different Supreme Court justices sided in the 2005 ruling, this becomes even more clear. In the 2005 ruling, every progressive justice on the Supreme court – every one of them, without exception – voted against medical marijuana. They did this – not because they have anything against medical marijuana per se – but instead, because they did not want to overturn Wickard v. Filburn.

So who were the dissenters in the 2005 medical marijuana ruling? The dissenters – those who supported states’ rights on the issue of medical marijuana – were justices O’Connor, Rehnquist, and Thomas.

In May 2008, Obama campaign spokesperson Ben LaBolt said that Obama would end DEA raids on medical marijuana in states where it’s legal.

Also in 2008, Obama said that he supported the

“basic concept of using medical marijuana for the same purposes and with the same controls as other drugs”

and that he was

“not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws.”

However, in February 2010,,..
The raids begin ,...

go to fro a long list of the raids.. http://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/the-biggest-current-obstacles-to-medical-marijuana-are-president-obama-and-the-progressives-on-the-supreme-court/

In February 2012, Rolling Stone magazine wrote that Obama’s war against medical marijuana went

“far beyond anything undertaken by George W. Bush.”

In April 2012, Mother Jones magazine wrote:

“The president campaigned on the promise that he’d stop federal raids on medical marijuana operations that were in compliance with state laws, a vow that Attorney General Eric Holder repeated after the election. But then the Obama administration raided more than 100 dispensaries in its first three years and is now poised to outpace the Bush administration’s crackdown record.”

In May 2012, the Washington Post wrote:

“Obama has become more hostile to medical marijuana patients than any president in U.S. history.”

Gonzales vs. Raich is the only Supreme Court decision that I have read in its entirety and it’s quite interesting. The majority opinion, as I recall, was actually quite sympathetic to medical marijuana, and implied that prohibiting it was not wise, but said that Congress had the power to do so. The conservative dissenters clearly did not like the idea of medical marijuana but thought that the issue should be left to the states (as we do with alcohol).

yet they still voted for him... I guess they will get what they deserve.. :?
 
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