Feds Target Leader of Marijuana Legalization Movement

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As the federal government's crackdown on the state's medical marijuana industry expands, the Department of Justice has targeted Richard Lee, the leader of the movement to legalize pot in California, The Bay Citizen has learned.

U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag sent a letter to the landlord of Lee’s medical marijuana dispensary, Coffeeshop Blue Sky, ordering its eviction, according to people familiar with the situation.

Lee, a soft-spoken libertarian who uses a wheelchair, is the founder of Oaksterdam University, which offers cultivation classes and business training for the cannabis industry. Last year, he poured $1.5 million into Proposition 19, the marijuana legalization measure that voters rejected.

The four U.S. attorneys from California announced a crackdown on the state’s billion-dollar medical marijuana industry Oct. 7, charging that many dispensaries are simply fronts for the sale and distribution of illegal drugs. Since the announcement, federal agents have raided pot clubs and arrested growers.

The actions highlight the conflict between federal and state authorities over medical marijuana, which is legal under state law but illegal under federal law.

Medical marijuana advocates said Friday that targeting Lee seemed politically motivated because of his leading role in legalization efforts and the medical marijuana industry.

“It smacks of politics,” said Dale Gieringer of the marijuana advocacy organization California NORML.

Haag declined to comment on the letter, but at the Oct. 7 press conference, she said, “People are using the cover of medical marijuana to make extraordinary amounts of money — in short, to engage in drug trafficking.”
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full @ http://www.baycitizen.org/marijuana/story/feds-target-oakland-dispensary-richard/
 
Of course, because a handicapped man who is trying to help people recover from illness and makes massive donations is a drug dealer...

The DEA has such crazy extreme views, I will rejoice the day they are done away with for all of the injustice they cause.
 
That would be a fucking tragedy. Big changes here in northern cali if they're really gonna pursue this horseshit.
 
They can have fun trying to find all of the MJ in NorCal. Good luck to them. They have a snowball's chance in hell at accomplishing that goal.
 
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They can have fun trying to find all of the MJ in NorCal. Good luck to them. They have a snowball's chance in hell at accomplishing that goal.
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And they'll waste all our money doing it...

Honestly, this is why I have no faith in government in its current form. It's an abomination of what government should be and was intended to be. It makes me sick.
 
shit, they're going to roll through with crop dusters full of bleach mixed with aids and razor blades. And before someone says, "They wouldn't do that - there are other crops there zomg," ask yourself whether you think collateral damage matters to them if it's people let alone farmland.

As for the wheelchair dude, get ready for a surprise sexual assault charge to pop up. These assholes think they're fighting a real war and they will do some shit that will make the next forward thinking individual who's still in college to think twice about starting anything revolutionary.
 
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