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WANTED: For spending $1.5 million to try to legalize marijuana and for providing truthful education about it.
OAKLAND – Federal agents swooped in Monday morning to search Oakland’s Oaksterdam University in Oakland, the state’s first cannabis industry training school.
Agents with the U.S. Marshals Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Internal Revenue Service’s criminal investigation division are searching the university at the corner of 16th Street and Broadway, in the heart of the city’s widely recognized downtown cannabis-oriented district, authorities said.
The university has been cordoned off by yellow caution tape.
Arlette Lee, an IRS spokeswoman, said she could not say why the agents were there other than to confirm that they were serving a federal search warrant.
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There is now no doubt in my mind that this is a full-court press by the Obama Administration to squelch the voices of legalization, retard the propagation of truth about marijuana, and stall our growing political momentum long enough for the campaign donors in Big Pharma to get cannabinoid pharmaceuticals through the FDA approval process.
Colorado and Washington – 2012 is THE year. Failure to pass legalization this year gives the government four more years before they have to worry about serious attempts at legalization. By then, a few more states will have passed medical marijuana laws without home grow. By 2016, Sativex and other cannabinoid pharmaceuticals are brought to market. Those states without home grow will then begin switching their state-run dispensary patients to Sativex. States with home grow will be under great pressure to do the same.
Contact your elected representatives and urge them to 'Stop Arresting Marijuana Smokers'. 
I believe ultimately the problem is grounded in the liberal construction of the interstate commerce clause from the U.S. Supreme Court case dated in the 1940s. We need the lawyers to ask The Court to overrule that case law for a more sensible standard for federal interstate commerce clause jurisdiction, a standard which gives respect for the 9th or 10th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution for States’ Rights, so that States would be able to regulate intrastate and local commerce without federal government interference! We have seen this problem in Cannabis cases, in cases against raw milk dealers, and I read a few weeks ago that a Friend-of-The-Court brief had been filed in the Obamacare health care legislation case now pending complaining of this interstate commerce clause issue, and I’m hoping one U.S. Supreme Court Justice at least mentions this issue as a problem!!
Yes its time to Legalize, make no longer illegal, a beautiful safe plant. I have posted on many sites that are against “A” bill to legalize this and said that not to pass it will cause more harm then to pass it ever could. The No on 19 I hope learned that because they have been hurt big time after the failed attempt of 19. Lets not make the same mistake again with I-502 in WA. In Fort Collins, CO they banned all dispensaries in that city last Nov because of two people. If we don’t start with this being legal in one state how long will we be able to enjoy MMJ?
A successful push this fall is just what we need. The “all use is wellness” Is a nonstarter in my opinion.The only way to protect medical use is Full Legalization.
Right, Russ!
As you say, it’s TIME to get out of the medical marijuana box canyon. Recreational marijuana is non-addictive and FAR safer than alcohol.
It’s TIME to re-legalize marijuana for ALL adults! Please encourge NORML to form a coalition with all the reform groups to activate the millions of consumers, family and friends to get out in the streets and DEMAND an end to the American Inquisition!