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In reply to the discussion: Obama says marijuana ‘no more dangerous than alcohol’ [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)How many days, weeks, months or years did you serve as an unpaid activist seeing to it that the signatures were gathered and brought forward through legal mechanisms to get Prop 215 on the California ballot?
How many GOTV days did you work to see to it that the Prop 215 election went down to a majority of people saying, "Let's stop arresting people for using and growing their own pot?"
How many news paper articles did you write and get published, to spread the word on the need to have medicinal marijuana? And how many lettes tot he editor do you write even occasionally on the issue?
Has your Social Securities monies been zeroed out by the Federal government as you were too big a threat to Big Federal Government, the Mexican cartels, Big Privatized Prisons and Big Pharma?
Have you been arrested and convicted of distributing medicinal marijuana to people who live in remote areas of the state of California? Are you facing ten years in jail for the offense?
Links for your further education:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steph-sherer/california-medical-marijuana_b_3786648.html
http://www.canorml.org/costs/federal_medical_marijuana_prisoners_and_cases
https://mmjbusinessdaily.com/ca-courts-feds-can-shut-down-mmj-businesses/
Also it has been in the news that while 1,700 dispensaries in L.A. have been sent down "shut down" letters, and fewer than 350 dispensaries will remain open.
Over eight thousand well payuing jobs have been lost, as dispensary after dispensary closed down. Many of these jobs are in rural areas, where the people who held the jobs are now on welfare. (Many of thes e job holders use med marijuana themselves,s o they can't apss a drug test and get a job,even if a job was available.
Anyway the fact of the matter remains - Obama lied through his damn teeth. As "The Press Democrat" Article I linked to in my earlier reply proves.