FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JANUARY 29, 2009
CONTACT: Dan Bernath, MPP assistant director of communications, 202-462-5747, ext. 2030
DEA Defies Obama Pledge, Raids Medical Marijuana State, Denies Marijuana FDA Research
Medical Marijuana Advocates Call on New President to Rein in Rogue Drug Enforcement Administration
WASHINGTON — Officials at the Marijuana Policy Project today accused the Drug Enforcement Administration of defying President Barack Obama's stated position by raiding a California medical marijuana dispensary and called on the president to immediately replace Bush administration holdovers at the DEA.
The DEA raided a medical marijuana dispensary in Lake Tahoe, Calif., Jan. 22 – only two days after President Obama's inauguration.
During the presidential campaign, Obama repeatedly promised not to waste federal resources interfering in states with laws protecting medical marijuana patients from arrest, and he told Southern Oregon's Mail Tribune editorial board on March 28, 2008, "I'm not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue."
MPP also urged President Obama to instruct the Bush-appointed current administrator of the DEA to delay a final ruling on a Motion to Reconsider its Jan. 12 decision to deny an application by a University of Massachusetts-Amherst researcher to grow research-grade marijuana in a secure facility, arguing that Obama's own administrator should get to make that decision once in place. The DEA's Jan. 12 denial was one among a series of unrelated 11th-hour regulatory actions the Bush administration attempted to finalize before leaving office.
The DEA could rule on the motion as early as Monday unless the White House stops Bush holdover, Michele Leonhart, the DEA administrator. The DEA's Jan. 12 decision came nearly two years after the its own administrative law judge, Mary Ellen Bittner, ruled that approving the application would "be in the public's interest" and after years of delay on the part of the Bush administration.
"On the first day of the new administration, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel issued a memo to departments and agencies directing them to hold off on issuing final regulations until President Obama's appointees have a chance to review them," said Aaron Houston, MPP director of government relations. "We're just asking for the same thing here. We'd like a fair hearing from new leadership at the DEA."
With more than 26,000 members and 100,000 e-mail subscribers nationwide, the Marijuana Policy Project is the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the United States. MPP believes that the best way to minimize the harm associated with marijuana is to regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol. For more information, please visit www.MarijuanaPolicy.org.
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DEA is a place of employment for non-productive consumer units
Obama should lay off all DEA employees and require them to get mental health rehabilitation and vocational training so that they can become useful, balanced, and productive humans.
LEAP YOU ROCK AND ROLL !
THANK YOU LEAP ! THANK YOU RON PAUL ! THANK YOU RALPH NADER AND EVERYONE WHO CONTINUES TO FIGHT THE TYRANNY OF THE FRAUDULENT OCCUPIERS WITHIN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,WALL STREET AND THE GOONS THAT SUPPORT THEM. ITS SO NICE TO FINALLY SEE THE THE IMMEDIATE REMOVAL OF ALL D.E.A. TERRORIST CULT LEADERS . YES DEATH TO THE D.E.A.,F.D.A.,WALL STREET,AND ALL OTHER FRAUDULENT PROHIBITIONIST WAR MONGERS FRAUDULENT OCCUPATION. EVERYONE CHANT THE D.E.A. AND F.D.A. ARE A FORCED TERRORIST RELIGIOUS CULT! HAVE A GOOD ONE
thank you LEAP
Yes indeed ! If law enforcement against prohibition; LEAP join with U.S. military/special forces and the other warriors of this planet who are being subjected to these prohibitionists and the wars they inflict for their petrochemiceutical insider trading scam profits. the world would be a much happier place to live after all prohibitionist war mongers are removed. So this time the fight is against prohibition based terror and tyranny instead of for prohibitionist terror and tyranny. its gonna be so nice to to see the D.E.A. and their ilk completely eliminated !
LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST PROHIBITION
LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST PROHIBITION/LEAP . THE D.E.A. AND F.D.A. AND THE SUPPORTERS OF CONTINUED PROHIBITION ARE A FOREIGN,TERRORIST THEREFORE FRAUDULENT OCCUPATION OF AMERICA AND THE WHOLE PLANET EARTH. THE WARS WHICH HAVE BEEN WAGED ON EVERYONE CAN BE CONSIDERED TRAINING TO REMOVE THE GLOBAL ELITISTS WHO USE WALL STREETS WORTHLESS MONEY TO INFLICT PAIN ON EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING BY FORCING WAR AND CONFLICT ARTIFICIALLY VIA THESE PURPOSELY STOCK MARKET INSIDER TRADED PROHIBITIONS,FOREIGN POLICIES, AND ALL OTHER TYRANNY BASED FORCED RELIGIOUS CULT ACTIVITY. THESE PROHIBITION BASED TERRORISTS AND LOCAL,STATE,FEDERAL,RELIGIOUS,WHOEVER,SUPPORTERS OF THIS OPPRESSION ARE ENEMIES OF EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING . THE MILITARY PEOPLE OF THIS PLANET ARE GOING TO JOIN TOGETHER AND REMOVE ALL LOCAL STATE AND FEDERAL SUPPORTERS OF THESE CRUEL PROHIBITIONS AND WARMONGERING. BLESSINGS TO ALL NOW LETS GET TO WORK !!
D.E.A. double standards are insider trading scam
the D.E.A.,F.D.A.,U.N. and others like them are blatant insider trading groups. to impose tyrannical double standards by law to increase the risk and violence involved with any plant,drug,weapon or any product raises the monetary value. then when D.E.A.,F.D.A.,U.N. persons etc. trade all this on the stock market while making/enforcing laws which artificially raise the value of botany and petrochemiceutical drugs etc.they are getting away with insider trading on a level that makes Martha Stewart's insider trading look tiny.
yes send endless requests to eliminate the d.e.a./f.d.a. terror
send so many requests to end the terrorism and tyranny of the d.e.a.,f.d.a.,and wall street etc. that there is no way to ignore them and then send some more and end this terrorist forced religious cult that is the d.e.a.,f.d.a. and all their supporters are removed.
request special forces to eliminate all d.e.a. agents
request special forces/u.s. military to eliminate all d.e.a. agents and all all other unconstitutional fraudulent occupiers of this land. the d.e.a and f.d.a. have sponsored terrorism and genocide,plunder of all forms and total control over public consent for far too long. help before the d.e.a. pays for another 911 styled attack !