Feds Shut Down Marin Pot Club, (California's) Oldest

[Webster Green]

34. The DEA claims just that, and they are part of the executive branch of the government.

President Obama has the power to stop this policy, because the DEA is part of the executive branch of the federal government. All he has to do is simply direct the DEA to stop prosecuting the sale of medical marijuana in states where it has been legalized. The DEA, along with other federal agencies, have long claimed that cannabis has no medicinal value whatsoever. They are enjoying the tacit approval of the president, as they get their rocks off with this insane hippie-bashing. While campaigning, Obama stated that federal resources would not be used against medicinal cannabis providers. He lied about that, it would seem. It is within his powers to cause these agencies to stop making these horrible raids a high priority.

Many people are being harmed by this cruel war on pot, and the president is silent. It makes no sense. He seems clueless and aloof, like he does on so many other issues. A president who had a little vision, would himself suggest that perhaps listing pot as a schedule 1 "drug" makes no sense, since there have been so many medicinal uses discovered. But no.....we get the same tired old 'Reefer Madness' propaganda. It isn't like this issue is still some kind of political "third rail". Damn near everyone is aware that pot has medical uses.