Recently Raided Washington Medical Marijuana Dispensary Employee Speaks Out

Discussion in 'Medical Marijuana' started by ducrider, Jul 29, 2013.

  1. ducrider

    ducrider growing your mamas weed

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    http://the420times.com/2013/07/video-recently-raided-washington-medical-marijuana-dispensary-employee-speaks-out/


    Casey Lee, who works at the Bayside Collective in Olympia, was on duty when Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents came a knockin’ with guns drawn and proceeded to seize the businesses records and about $2,500 worth of medical marijuana intended for state-legal patients.


    “One of the DEA agents said: ‘This is your second raid and your third robbery. Why do you keep doing this?’” Lee explained. “I just told him it’s because we just enjoy helping people, and he told us that he wasn’t expecting that answer.”
     
  2. jr215

    jr215 Caged hippie

    All you people who voted for Obama, thanks.
     
  3. Discorilla

    Discorilla Shining like a Discoball!

    Romney would have done the same thing, unless we offered to pay for the war on terror with the money made from it.
     
  4. LionLoves420

    LionLoves420 Lazy Days In The Sun

    Ok....going to throw out a political correlation here: Under Obama there have been more raids than under Bush. BUT, there were only like two medical states under bush and now we are up to 12 and DC, and two states legalized. DUH there are more raids now.
     
  5. Discorilla

    Discorilla Shining like a Discoball!

    Weed is getting big, and pharma is getting pissed about it. It's pretty obvious that the Big-G just cares about money. The raids are scare tactics, in order to get the states to comply with Uncle Sam's demands.
     
  6. jr215

    jr215 Caged hippie

    I'm a pretty patriotic American, but Obummer can bite me. I didnt vote for him simply because I thought Romney could help the country get out of the financial mess we're in. I didnt use weed in my decision because I dont believe either one would have wanted to go down as being the guy that made it legal. United States. We're supposed to be able to operate as individual states, united uder one flag and the feds are supposed to let us operate as inndividuals. I guess we're going socialist.
     
  7. ResinRubber

    ResinRubber Civilly disobedient/Mod

    Obama, via the Cole memo, directly intervened in a negative manner on his OWN promises and direction of an earlier enforcement memo from his administration on how to proceed with MMJ States. He said one thing in both his campaign and comments as a sitting president then did, and is doing, another entirely. He lied on this topic and he continues to lie.
     
  8. LionLoves420

    LionLoves420 Lazy Days In The Sun

    I am not saying Obama hasn't lied, though I doubt he has as big a hand in this as yall think.


    All I am trying to point out is there are more raids because there are more places to do them. Big Pharm aside, it is a self perpetuating system that employs so many people the simple decriminalization in ALL states would fire 2/3 of the DEA's staff.


    Big Pharm wants the money involved in this. They may or may not get it. My guess is not. It is easier to just decriminalize the damn plant or legalize it than it is to set up a FDA type system that will be different state to state. States know this. There may be some initial throw back from it, but in the end it is the same reason we don't have a picture of cancer lungs on our packs of cigs right now. Aint worth the legal fight for the government when it comes to the tax dollars attained.
     
  9. jr215

    jr215 Caged hippie

    The FDA tried to make vitamin C a prescription drug. I have kittle respect for them because they know theres no money in a cure. Infinite money in treatment however. The FDA isnt about to piss off big pharma. I like your take on the amount of DEA jobs that would be lost. I'm sure they could meld into local police, fbi... They wouldnt be out of work for long. I bet if they discovered Vodka cures AIDS or Hepititas booze would be banned again.
     
  10. rasganjah

    rasganjah True Ganjaman

    I don't think getting pissed at people who voted for Obama is gonna do anyone any good. We're stuck with him for 3 more years. I'll come right out and say it. I voted for Obama. Do I feel as though I made the right choice?... Not entirely but I still don't agree with Romney's politricks either. Weed was a factor in my decision seeing as how it's the way I make a living it's near and dear to my heart. During Obama's first term things were fairly quiet out here in Cali in regards to the feds cracking down. It seemed to me that he was honoring the memo that he put out saying he would leave law abiding medicinal marijuana users and dispensaries alone. All we can do is take what any given candidate says at face value. It seems as though he's no different than any other politrickster. He said one thing and then did another. Apparently in his second term he wants to go out not being seen as having been too easy on marijuana. It's a real shame that morality and honesty don't really exist within the political world.
     
  11. LionLoves420

    LionLoves420 Lazy Days In The Sun

    See, I like that line of thinking. Fucking get rid of the DEA and put them on REAL problems.


    I was reading a "parent" magazine today (It was bias towards women), that said kids don't need vitamins, except for D. You know where you get D? FROM THE FUCKING SUN. FUCK vitamins, take your damn kid outside.


    That was a side rant to say that they are in it for the money. From the cops, to the courts, all the way to inside of the prisons, this is big money for the government.


    People always say it is big Pharm keeping it from legalized. I personally think it is the privatized prison systems and court generated money that keeps it from legalized. Pharm could give two shits about alcohol, but the government taxes it like a bitch. Same will be marijuana. We have been using both since around 5k BC as staples, why stop now?
     
  12. ResinRubber

    ResinRubber Civilly disobedient/Mod

    I think this excerpt from The Atlantic has a ring to where the real lack of follow through on promises and increased enforcement came from. Neat little demographic concerns and polling of specifically managed groups of support.

    Then there's this interesting PEW poll that shows how the rest of us think our government should be handling the issue. Notice the last entry concerning costs of enforcement. If it's not a complete bow to the Law Enforcement lobby or a twist of necessary political demographics what else explains such a fucked up expansion of failed policy that nobody wants?


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