For those insisting that President Obama is likely to turn over a new leaf in his Administration’s crackdown on medical marijuana, you might want to tell Aaron Sandusky who was just given 10 years in prison for operating three medical marijuana growing enterprises in California.
U.S. District Court Judge Percy Anderson gave Sandusky the lowest possible sentence but the Administration stacked the counts to guarantee a decade in jail for growing marijuana for medical purposes. Sandusky was charged with conspiring to manufacture and possess marijuana with intent to distribute it, conspiring to operate a drug-involved premises and one count of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute it. The Obama Administration is pursuing three other medical marijuana cases.
In his sentencing memo, Anderson acknowledged that Sandusky was running a marijuana operation under cover of California’s medical marijuana laws. However, he insisted that Sandusky was not acting for altruistic purposes in this operation.
In 1996, California voters approved Proposition 215 allowing medical marijuana in the state. These cases reaffirm statements from prosecutors after the recent legalization of marijuana in two statutes. Obama officials are quoted as saying that they would continue prior enforcement policies.
Sandusky was sentenced on his 43 birthday.
Source: Contra Costa Times
This is an example of the twisted priorities in the Justice Department under Eric Holder.
Obama the lesser of two evils? Yes indeed. Obama the man that took GWBs detention policy and turned it into a kill list.
There were other options people. Neither Mitt nor Obama got my vote, In fact I have not voted for a R or D for the Pres in quite some time. There are one and the same. Both advance war and killing, expand the Fed at the expense of the state.
There are alternatives, Don’t let the news media tell you that there are only two parties to choose from.
We had a bad dog catcher in this county under Bush but we didnt blame The Bush Administration for him. Yeah, I know, he was not a federal dog catcher. But it was on Bush’s pocket watch.
DonS for the win!
Now we wouldn’t want to upset Obama’s wet dream that he’s really all out for the poor and middle class. Four more years of grooming his resume and he’ll be properly ready to join Bill in raking in the millions and living the great life. Heckuva job barry, you’ve hit the jackpot.
But let’s not get angry about all this. Gotta remain civil and work within the system. Can’t blame the rich. No no. Can’t blame defense pigs. No no. Can’t incarcerate the bankers. Oh no. Oh, but let’s get tough on pot growers and whistle blowers. And so it goes.
Obama officials are quoted as saying that they would continue prior enforcement policies. -Jonathan Turley
Obama has also continued to allow a Stasi-like apparatus to work its magic in the U.S. I should hope that good Americans will be shocked, stunned and angry when the truth comes to light, but we all know that most people are perfectly fine with almost anything the government does as long as it doesn’t impact their nice, comfortable lives. Ah, the many “willfully blind” citizens of these United States.
And everything that Justice Holmes said. This is an outrage.
Head on over to the FISA thread:
FISA Extension Gets a Bipartisan Pass
Published 1, January 6, 2013
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Guest Blogger
http://jonathanturley.org/2013/01/06/fisa-extension-gets-a-bipartisan-pass/
Obama seems to love putting people in jail unless of course they are bankers, AIG CEOs and others of that ilk, war criminals who sanctioned, ordered and engaged in war crimes like torture. He is more than an embarrassment, he is a disgrace and he hasn’t even begun that Second Term that was going to be so much better because he wouldn’t have to worry about reelection.
David,
You speak your truth at your own peril… There are some here that are blind, even with the ability to read they fail to comprehend….
So… cannabis is the nation’s third largest cash crop behind corn and soybeans, but growers must be punished (seems like a sisyphean task).
At the same time, CIA cocaine dealers get state secrets protections:
http://www.narconews.com/Issue67/article4621.html
We also have to assume that medicine must come in the form of an unpleasant, expensive, bitter pill; otherwise we might see medicine based on research such as US Patent 6630507 (“Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants”, assigned to the Department of Health And Human Services).
Sounds reasonable!
It may have been better if Romney had won.
Mitts feed the rich starve the poor policies would have united Progressives, Liberals, and Dems.
Now we have (R)Obama, a DINO, that receives laurels from 50% of dems, and undermines many long held dem philosophies.
Mr Obama is fracturing the unity on the left.
While the press fiddles with Congressional fabricated BS. The political center of this country continues to slide to the right.
Who Benefits??? is benefited, and daily continues to benefit.
You can bet he won’t be enforcing any states rights to …… Oh sorry…. That was preelection……. Dang….. Sorry, they don’t count anymore….. But still the lesser of evil……
This kind of dichotomy impairs people for life.
It is like one parent saying “it is ok” then the other parent punishes the kid when the kid does what the other parent said was ok.
There are better ways to do this.
Obama, what a huge disappointment, in many ways………. The only reason he won re-election was because the alternative would have been worse.
Ah, garbage, Ill-smellling garbage wirh which they fill your stomachs and your intestines until the two streams meet.
That is our government. My rant.
Why don’tt the Med drug operators come to WashDC the same day as the NRA’s are planning their pre-inaugural demo?
ACLU too. And JT-folk. In short all who believe it is BS and Obama must deliver now.
Altruistic? Are business men supposed to live off altruism. BS.
Jury nullification: the last line of defense when a citizen is railroaded. I know there are examples of when jury nullification is corrupt, such as the examples of when all white juries in the past aquitted KKK men who killed someone who was a minority. I am talking about the honorable jury nullification, one where in the jury chamber the jury decides this case is garbage and tosses it.
Mr. Anderson should have gotten on the stand and told jurors that he was operationing under cover of California law for medical marijuana purposes and they have a right to not convict under an unjust law/prosecution, under jury nullification. Of course, he would have to say all of that within about 10 seconds before the judge has him removed on the stand.
This is your federal government respecting your rights citizens of the various states. This is just one example of what is to come.
Legal scholars here: Is it possible for a person in this defendant’s position to claim Entrapment because he was induced into the crime by the California government that what he was doing was sanctioned under state law?
Also, see below: “FISA Extension Gets a Bipartisan Pass” Jan. 6, 2013
I am so glad I voted for Jill Stein- Green Party. President Obama is off and running to the right again, just as I expected. Recipients of Social Security and Medicare will find themselves (ourselves) under the bus before the robins return. Just another establishment hack politician. Hope and Change? Not this time either.
People who consider themselves Liberals or Progressives need to take a look at the Democratic Party and ask themselves- “Is this really the direction I want to go?” A Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate that can only get 19 votes against a 5 year extension of the vile assault on civil liberties that is the FISA warrantless wiretapping law? Where is the outrage you had when Bush and Cheney and the frightened Republicans passed the FISA Act? Outrage for Bush, silence for Obama.
Is there any evidence that this guy was abusing the medical pot laws to grow and sell pot to anyone? The ACLU should represent this guy.