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In reply to the discussion: Obama has become more hostile to medical marijuana patients than any president in U.S. history [View all]ProSense
(116,464 posts)139. Interesting.
http://reason.com/blog/2011/06/30/white-house-overrides-2009-mem
So, until the Cole memo is rescinded, permanently - Obama burdens this responsibility of spreading the lies that Obama supports MMJ.
So, until the Cole memo is rescinded, permanently - Obama burdens this responsibility of spreading the lies that Obama supports MMJ.
So a June 2011 memo earned Obama the OP title?
Let's check this claim from the OP commentary
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The shift has been clear. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced in March 2009 that the Obama administration would end the Bush administrations practice of raiding medical marijuana providers that violated federal statutes. A memo from the Justice Department later that year said the department would not prioritize prosecutions of individuals acting in compliance with state medical marijuana laws.
Through 2010, that policy seemed to work. Maine, California, Colorado and New Mexico took steps to regulate the distribution of medical marijuana at the state and local levels. Other states had similar plans in the works.
But last year the tide turned. Obamas Justice Department authorized a series of letters from U.S. attorneys across the country threatening to vigorously prosecute individuals acting in compliance with state medical marijuana laws. In some cases the U.S. attorneys suggested that government employees who help regulate their states medical marijuana systems could be prosecuted for facilitating a crime.
The shift has been clear. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced in March 2009 that the Obama administration would end the Bush administrations practice of raiding medical marijuana providers that violated federal statutes. A memo from the Justice Department later that year said the department would not prioritize prosecutions of individuals acting in compliance with state medical marijuana laws.
Through 2010, that policy seemed to work. Maine, California, Colorado and New Mexico took steps to regulate the distribution of medical marijuana at the state and local levels. Other states had similar plans in the works.
But last year the tide turned. Obamas Justice Department authorized a series of letters from U.S. attorneys across the country threatening to vigorously prosecute individuals acting in compliance with state medical marijuana laws. In some cases the U.S. attorneys suggested that government employees who help regulate their states medical marijuana systems could be prosecuted for facilitating a crime.
Now from the link you provided (which by the way is a RW site):
When I asked the White House in 2010 if continuing to raid medical marijuana dispensaries--which it had been doing less often than under Bush, but more often than never--a senior staffer told me, "Yes that enforcement is focused on those incidences where both federal and state law are being violated and is therefore focused largely on drug traffickers. It has not spent its limited resources on ind. patients with cancer and other serious disease."
The piece links to the Daily Caller.
Based on theses sources, the 2009 policy Obama put in place worked "through 2010." The raids were "less often than under Bush," and, from the link in the above piece, "There was a time under the Bush administration that "the DEA and U.S. Attorneys" were quite proud of their attempts to undermine state marijuana laws."
All in all, some really fascinating spin has been pursue since the Obama DOJ issued a memo in mid 2011.
At least the facts I presented are consistent.

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Obama has become more hostile to medical marijuana patients than any president in U.S. history [View all]
pscot
May 2012
OP
So how do you explain the fact that there is legislation that allows Holder to
truedelphi
May 2012
#77
i agree with you and it is baffling. California residents have fought a long hard battle
xiamiam
May 2012
#191
It is politics pure and simple...he will be crucified if he supports marijuana use in any form...
rfranklin
May 2012
#78
You are saying it is prudent to trade 3 Democratic votes to get one conservative to vote for him?
Dragonfli
May 2012
#88
Sometimes the DEA just comes in, and steals all your meds, cash, computers and then leaves.
Webster Green
May 2012
#25
I wonder if they're targeting particular dispensaries just to allow favored people to gain
Uncle Joe
May 2012
#95
If that were the case, wouldn't they be going after all the MMJ dispensaries
Uncle Joe
May 2012
#104
Show me a map of all the dispensaries in Riverside or San Bernadino or the Central Valley....
Comrade Grumpy
May 2012
#56
Well, I have to eat some crow. There are indeed dispensaries in Riverside.
Comrade Grumpy
May 2012
#116
Not California, but Colorado could be interesting, and maybe New Hampshire
Comrade Grumpy
May 2012
#52
Yes on Amendment 64, and then prepare to sue the U.S. Government for failing to follow the 10th
fuddyduddy
May 2012
#82
2009 was the year marijuana arrests accounted for the majority of drug arrests
RainDog
May 2012
#128
Prosense, are you actually claiming the Obama administration is NOT increasing Medical....
Logical
May 2012
#11
Dispensaries are being shut down , and patients are being denied their meds.
Webster Green
May 2012
#30
Obama deserves credit for supporting reducing the crack-powder cocaine sentencing disparity...
Comrade Grumpy
May 2012
#47
Obama is more anti-medical-marijuana than any other president has been anti-illegal-drugs
saras
May 2012
#17
Prosense, are you saying the OBAMA admin is NOT increasing attacks on Medical Marijuana?? YES/NO?
Logical
May 2012
#22
I'm in Sonoma County. Who am I going to believe, ProSense or my lying eyes?
Comrade Grumpy
May 2012
#101
President O and the DOJ aren't going after Medical Marijuana users........
TheDebbieDee
May 2012
#41
Why would the local officials ask for some of them to be shut down without filing charges?
Uncle Joe
May 2012
#168
Do a Google search about George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and cannabis.
Webster Green
May 2012
#59
Yes, considering Obama is the most hostile President to marijuana usage born in this country.
AnotherMcIntosh
May 2012
#64
As a grower of marijuana, no doubt he would be aghast at Prohibition.
kenny blankenship
May 2012
#96
What proof is there that he grew up and that he used it for medicinal purposes?
treestar
May 2012
#143
We should have a system that doesn't hold science and medicine hostage to prejudice
RainDog
May 2012
#175
actually, hemp was one of the major crops in the U.S. for more of our history than not
RainDog
May 2012
#146
Your attempt to make the term "pot users" some sort of pejorative is just plain sad
Tsiyu
May 2012
#167