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
The non-profit requirement is ridiculous.
You have investmentsm normally based on loans which need payment from the income side. Etc for land depreciation, salaries for workers, etc.
Maybe with good tax help, he could take out a million dollar yearly salary, if he has a board to approve it.
This is how you say yes while actrually saying no.
The facial creme will be forbidden as containing THC. Of course, ingesting and injection is not possible, but regulations are regulations, says the mind numb bureaucrat.
Henman,
Has there been any signifcant third party since Nader?
Also have not complete figures, so is the alternate party growing in strength.
I went into detail on launching a third party once, naive as I was.
Now believe we need money and pros, not just idealists like me.
A thousand miles, I thought it was Mao, not that I support him.
He did use old chinese imperial methods, off with their heads. Probably Confusion or whatever he is called. 🙂
Why should this guy have to be operating his facility for charitable purposes? Does anybody else? Is there a required charity law? Is this crazy or what?
I bought shares in Cannibus Science. they are developing a skin cancer cream in London. I know hemp oil cures skin cancer. It is a long shot, but I bet they get bought out by Pharma eventually.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/21/obama-nominee-jacob-lew-f_n_732594.html
This link is embedded in the above link. All Hail Wall st.
Regulations Regulations?!!! We don;t need no stinkin Regulations!!
(except on evil marijuana) ..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/09/jack-lew-deregulation_n_2441249.html?utm_hp_ref=business
Excerpt: Jack Lew, likely nominee for Treasury Secretary.
“As previous reports from The Huffington Post have noted, Lew declared at the 2010 Senate hearing that he didn’t think financial deregulation led to the financial crisis, saying the real problem was banks taking too many risks with bizarre derivatives.
Lew, in contrast, was “very much toeing the establishment line,” said Barofsky, “the Wall Street line, that it was unnecessary to go back to the types of common-sense protections that served us so well after the Great Depression for so many decades.”
The election is over. The Title of the Topic blames Obama for the prosecution. The White House does not approve or encourage every prosecution in the country.
Gene H.: Under California law, it is still illegal to cultivate or distribute marijuana, even if intended for medical use, for profit.
I’ll bet the NPR crowd here is happier than a jumpin jumbee jamboree. That liberal Obama’s really a swell guy, ain’t e!
Is there no way to FORCE our government to PROVE that all of the documented medical uses for cannabis are false? The drug’s schedule is based on it having no medical use. If only a fraction of the proven benefits were accepted by the Drug Warriors, they would still have to re-classify the substance. How abjectly STUPID is it for a culture to give up the many many benefits of of HEMP as a cash crop because of our ignorance that hemp can get someone high?
HenMan,
Confucius, Lao-tzu, Charlie Chan, it’s all good. 😉
Idealist707-
The “fractional percent party” doesn’t grow to be a major party until disgruntled victims of the 2 “respectable” parties grow enough balls to walk away from them. It’s never easy.
A wise man (probably Charlie Chan) said “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”.
The Whigs, Federalists, and Know-Nothings didn’t disappear in a single day, but they did disappear. The “lesser of two evils” theory doesen’t get us where we want to go- it just prolongs the agony.
How powerless do you feel when the people you vote for become your worst enemies?
“US Patent 6630507 (“Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants”, assigned to the Department of Health And Human Services).”
Just perfect for MS sufferers. I guess they know that but don’t give a damn.
Nothing new there.
Support the rest said here, except for those who think voting for a fractional percent party is worthy. Indeed it is worthy of being ignored, Unless you get 5 percent in a swing state, then muddaphucker……..!
And don’t blame poor Obama, he is just Bernie when the investors came to call in their money ie our tax money. And he is bought like all pols. And we know who the buyers are.
How can you kill those who invest for you, feed you, fuel your cars, and think for you? Such ingrates.
Ralph, thanks for the lulz, I needed that.
In addition, everyone seems to missing the fact that this is the second time that Sandusky has been involved in infamous activities. First, there was the Penn State debacle. Now this? I’m glad that Obama is clamping down on Sandusky. Who know what he might do next?
Fired off a letter to the White House, don’t know what good it will do, but at least they know my opinion.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
This is excellent news and confirms the integrity of the Obama administration. The Obama administration is the best. It has its priorites right. The medicial marijuana industry is the #1 menace in society today. Have we learned nothing from the excellent instructional film, “Reefer Madness”? I am so thrilled to learn that Obama has paid such close attention to the details of the film and, moreover, has put its superb guidance into action.
Obama is a man of action. Just think of what would happen if Obama didn’t have his priorities straight, like addressing waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the government, of which the government admits to more than a trillion dollars over 10 years? How would addressing those things benefit society? We all know that waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement are good for society, and, in fact, form the very backbone of our economy. But growing medical marijuana causes incalculable damage to the moral, ethical, and philosophical fiber of this great nation of ours. Praise Obama, a genuine America leader of the 21st century.
“However, he insisted that Sandusky was not acting for altruistic purposes in this operation.”
Show me a for profit business that is. I’m sure those criminals running AIG aren’t. Why aren’t they in prison again? Along with their other Wall St. cohorts?
As for the rest of it? What Justice Holmes, DonS, David B and Paul said.
Mike Appleton, You know where the buck stops…don’t you?
Paul, Amen, Amen, Amen! However, not only the media; there are a few folks here who sing the duopoly ballad. It’s as entrenched as the corruption it fosters.