Proposition 215 protects distributors and patients of medicinal cannabis in the state of California, but federal law does not. Since the law was passed in 1996 the DEA has been raiding dispensaries, stealing the cannabis along with the money from the ATM machine, and collecting names. They made another hit in Culver City on Friday and left the place in a shambles. The LAPD just stands there as the drug enforcement officers bring to ruin a perfectly legal establishment.
Senator Barack Obama is an advocate of putting an end to these raids while McCain stands behind Bush when it comes to the DEA’s violent and shameful targeting. The question is if this is an important enough issue for Obama. President Carter tried to get Cannabis legalized and was shut down when an arrest for cocaine possession was dug up on a member of his administration. What fuck up is buried in the future Obama administration that will squelch all hope for ending the raids?
Why is cannabis still an issue? Have we not evolved since the days of Anslinger’s poisonous propaganda of Reefer Madness? What does the DEA gain from keeping cannabis a schedule I drug? Why is state law and federal law at war?
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