Hillary Clinton: DEA raids on medmj are not a “high priority”
Presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton swung through Oregon this week. My local weekly newspaper interviewed her about many subjects, including Oregon’s successful medical marijuana program. It looks like she’s waffling a bit from her earlier statements that she’d end the DEA raids on medical marijuana states:
Willamette Week | “Twenty Minutes With Hillary” | April 9th, 2008
What would you do as president about the federal government not recognizing Oregon’s Medical Marijuana Program as legal?We’ve got to have a clear understanding of the workings of pain relief and the control of pain. And there needs to be greater research and openness to the research that’s already been done. I don’t think it’s a good use of federal law-enforcement resources to be going after people who are supplying marijuana for medicinal purposes.
So you’d stop the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency’s raids on medical marijuana grows?
What we would do is prioritize what the DEA should be doing, and that would not be a high priority. There’s a lot of other more important work that needs to be done.
So does that mean that when the DEA finishes up with its important work, then the DEA should be tackling the low-priority issue of raiding medical marijuana states?
Look, Senator Clinton, it’s not a fiscal issue, it’s a medical issue and it’s a states rights issue. It’s not a question of it being a poor use of federal resources; even if it were an efficient use of federal resources, it would be wrong, period. Medical marijuana raids do not need to be re-prioritized, they need to be eliminated.
Tags: dispensaries, Hillary Clinton
April 11th, 2008 at 5:10 am
11Apr08 Clinton details Crime-fighting plan
“In the detailed policy paper, provided yesterday to the Daily News, Clinton promises to put 100,000 more cops on the streets, create a $1 billion grant program to fight recidivism, and provide more funds to combat gangs and drugs.”
Same old bait and switch from the same old bait and switch candidate…
April 11th, 2008 at 5:17 am
Hillary Redux..
“It would “promote tough but fair” changes to probation practices and to existing programs meant to steer non-violent drug offenders away from prison, her presidential campaign said in an outline provided early Friday. The goal is to make punishment more certain for those who violate their probation, while also enhancing efforts to help former drug users stay clean and thereby avoid prison, campaign aides said.”
Stop smoking pot under threat of imprisionment!
Isn’t that what we have now?
April 15th, 2008 at 5:13 am
Oh yes, yet another reason why this candidate, and the other ‘top’ two, are completely undesirable for the presidency. All Hillary, Barack and John provide us with is rhetoric and sound-bites that keep us uninformed of their true intentions. I say write in Ron Paul this November and give all Americans a fighting chance for freedom.