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In reply to the discussion: DEA investigates Montana state legislator for medical marijuana views [View all]Occulus
(20,599 posts)22. The Federal government has been running its own medical marijuana program for decades.
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.
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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.
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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DEA investigates Montana state legislator for medical marijuana views [View all]
Judi Lynn
Feb 2012
OP
I can't rec this enough. This is partially why I am unapologetically "Un-American"
Taverner
Feb 2012
#4
I wonder if the ATF goes after people; owning guns with big pharma prescription drugs?
Uncle Joe
Feb 2012
#2
The DEA is the biggest drug cartel there is. They don't like up and coming competition.
LetTimmySmoke
Feb 2012
#19
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
Well, thank you for that. I was speechless reading that post. Flaunt the law??..
truth2power
Feb 2012
#29
Our American government has become a country of the whim of the rich, aka fascist
fasttense
Feb 2012
#28