BREAKING! - DOJ SURRENDERS ON LEGAL WEED

[Comrade Grumpy]

146. I wish you would quit slandering the good people involved in medical marijuana in CA.

Your buddies in the DEA have raided some of the most upstanding, by-the-book medical marijuana operations in the state:

Northstone Organics in Mendocino. They paid the sheriff's office to get tags for their plants. Totally controlled and regulated, all the medicine going to patient collectives, and the DEA raided them.

Berkeley Patients Group One of the oldest and most respected in the state. Run out of one location by federal threats, hassled by the IRS, now threatened again.

Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana. The oldest dispensary in the state. Gone now, shut down by federal government threats.

Harborside Health Center. The iconic flagship dispensary. The only reason they're still open is that they have the bucks to defend themselves. Oh, and the city of Oakland is on their side, too.

Oaksterdam University. Not even a dispensary!

I could go on. Sometimes the DEA goes after crooks, sometimes it doesn't. There is no rhyme nor reason.

The problem in California is not the character of medical marijuana providers. The problem is that there is no statewide regulation. Part of the fault for that lies with the people who wrote Prop 215; part of the fault lies with the legislature for failing to fix the problem.