The A medical marijuana dispensary at South Lake Tahoe has reopened, three months after shutting down following a raid by federal agents.
Patient to Patient Collective last week reopened next to its previous location, and plans to offer a full line of marijuana products to eligible patients.
Federal agents seized about 10 pounds of processed marijuana and a small amount of cash during January’s raid, but no arrests were made.
This is akin to the turtle poking his head out of his shell to look around and see if that little boy is going to try and cut it off again. In this metaphor, the little boy, Attorney General Eric Holder, promised not to target medical dispensaries, with provisions, and we are all waiting to see if he keeps his promise. With one exception, there have not been any further raids on dispensaries by federal troops.
But, therein lies the problem. The prohibition continues to fuel the black market, and the government has their finger on the grenade pin 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. At any time, the government can pull the pin and blow up every life involved in the legitimate cannabis industry in every medical marijuana state and people are scared.
[Therein lies another problem: the feds will only bust dispensaries that break state law, but the feds, not the state, get to decide if you broke state law. There are no state charges filed for breaking that state law, whatever it was, only federal charges. When you're facing federal charges in a federal court, you're not allowed to mention that you were following a state medical marijuana law. -- "R"R]
People are legitimately afraid of the federal government, and there are no protections for them. With only a small handful of congressional leaders willing to champion the cause, the entire House of Representatives have become a sniveling group of cowards afraid to lead their country because they believe their constituent support may suffer.
Contact your elected representative and let them know if they support medical marijuana laws then you will support them. They need to know who their support base is, then get active and get involved.
im goin to start sayin that im a republican and im from texas an with resent developments in the goverment and laws running threw here surprizes me im for medical marijuana in its since of helping ppl not in the since of abuse just like alcohol abuse does not help ppl but legalization for private use is ok with me and if the govorment has issues u could think about breeding it to have a certain percent of thc level like many country do for hemp produce in theory the legalization will decrease criminal involvement i myself if i had in power in the goverment would jump on any wagon to criple the drug cartells that rule our streets and put our american ppl in fear this is no better than Pablo Estevan rain in cuba we are letting less organized crime sindicaites tear our country apart while our govermant stands by and sticks to a plan that hasnt worked for yrs on end wasting our american money im very afraid of any chancy change but we have no choices left or we are going to end up corrupt down to our goverment core if anyone has any other views on this i will give u my yahoo account to email ur uppinoin ninjaofsex@YAHOO.COM SRY FOR THE CHILDISH EMAIL ADDRESS IVE HAD IT A WHILE
That’s what the Constitution was for. It’s too bad we don’t use it any more.