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Occulus

(20,599 posts)
22. The Federal government has been running its own medical marijuana program for decades.
Thu Feb 2, 2012, 12:52 AM
Feb 2012

Our government does, has, and for all I know currently is not only allowing people to break the law, but has been the sole source of medical marijuana for them. Again, for decades.

The feds have been sending great big tins of Mary Janes to these people:

http://news.yahoo.com/4-americans-pot-us-government-070245907.html

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Sometime after midnight on a moonlit rural Oregon highway, a state trooper checking a car he had just pulled over found less than an ounce of pot on one passenger: A chatty 72-year-old woman blind in one eye.

She insisted the weed was legal and was approved by the U.S. government.

The trooper and his supervisor were doubtful. But after a series of calls to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Drug Enforcement Agency and her physician, the troopers handed her back the card — and her pot.

For the past three decades, Uncle Sam has been providing a handful of patients with some of the highest grade marijuana around. The program grew out of a 1976 court settlement that created the country's first legal pot smoker.

...

In 1976, a federal judge ruled that the Food and Drug Administration must provide Robert Randall of Washington, D.C. with marijuana because of his glaucoma — no other drug could effectively combat his condition. Randall became the nation's first legal pot smoker since the drug's prohibition.

Eventually, the government created its program as part of a compromise over Randall's care in 1978, long before a single state passed a medical marijuana law. What followed were a series of petitions from people like Musikka to join the program.


Quite a bit more at the link. Why isn't this program more known and understood and used by legalization activists?

I'm going to be as polite as I can be on this: Barack Hussein Obama, George Walker Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, George Herbert Walker Bush, Ronald Wilson Reagan, and even James Earl Carter have not only lied to us regarding cannabis as a general topic, shamefully, and in boldface, but have actually been the most blatant of hypocrites throughout. Their and their DEA's position on cannabis is a massive, major, intentional untruth, methodically sold to the American People using threat of force and actual use of force, sometimes fatal. This. Has. To END.

People have died over this plant's ban- but the government was still giving it out to people as of that article (Sep 28, 2011).

I'd like you to just think on that.

Think hard.

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the war on marijuana is a war on the American people. limpyhobbler Feb 2012 #1
I agree, limpyhobbler, that's all it is. n/t Uncle Joe Feb 2012 #3
I can't rec this enough. This is partially why I am unapologetically "Un-American" Taverner Feb 2012 #4
...and is currently being prosecuted by the current administration. villager Feb 2012 #9
I wonder if the ATF goes after people; owning guns with big pharma prescription drugs? Uncle Joe Feb 2012 #2
WOW. RainDog Feb 2012 #5
I hate to keep asking RainDog Feb 2012 #6
Bizarre. Kicked & rec'd WheelWalker Feb 2012 #7
The DEA needs to be punished for this action.. tridim Feb 2012 #8
I would like to see more facts before jumping to conclusions joeglow3 Feb 2012 #13
Doesn't take a genius Bohunk68 Feb 2012 #30
The DEA needs to be dismantled and the ground sown with salt. bemildred Feb 2012 #14
amen. the drug czar's office needs to go too RainDog Feb 2012 #20
The DEA is the biggest drug cartel there is. They don't like up and coming competition. LetTimmySmoke Feb 2012 #19
If medical marijuana is 'allowed' by the DEA in other states... randome Feb 2012 #10
It's not KamaAina Feb 2012 #17
No, they closed down some of the dispensaries in CA. Not all of them. randome Feb 2012 #18
again - this is not true RainDog Feb 2012 #21
And yet they left so many more operating. randome Feb 2012 #31
I wonder if that co-op was targeted b/c it was in a PBS doc RainDog Feb 2012 #33
The Federal government has been running its own medical marijuana program for decades. Occulus Feb 2012 #22
"Why isn't this program more known and understood and used by legalization activists?" boppers Feb 2012 #36
Flaunt the law? fasttense Feb 2012 #27
Well, thank you for that. I was speechless reading that post. Flaunt the law??.. truth2power Feb 2012 #29
a-fucking-men n/t RainDog Feb 2012 #32
This is ridiculous and a waste of our tax money FlaGatorJD Feb 2012 #11
could it be protecting big phrama`s new legal pot based drug? madrchsod Feb 2012 #12
There's a new one? boppers Feb 2012 #37
Does this mean the NRA now supports medical marijuana? McCamy Taylor Feb 2012 #15
What a crock. Paka Feb 2012 #16
The DEA has also been involved in undermining other nations' politics as well RainDog Feb 2012 #23
Not to worry..... DeSwiss Feb 2012 #24
Is this a joke? LostinRed Feb 2012 #25
sadly, only on us... tech_smythe Feb 2012 #26
Our American government has become a country of the whim of the rich, aka fascist fasttense Feb 2012 #28
exactly. if this were about anything other than abuse of power RainDog Feb 2012 #34
Jesus said to do unto others... ConservativChristian Feb 2012 #35
California voted on this.... boppers Feb 2012 #38
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