Thread: Obama Arrests Medical Pot Growers Instead of Illegals

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"Despite Obama admin’s promise, DEA continues raids on medical marijuana growers

"By Raw Story
"Saturday, February 13th, 2010 -- 6:10 pm

"Despite Obama admins promise, DEA continues raids on medical marijuana growers

"On Thursday, a Denver news station interviewed Chris Bartkowicz about his medical-marijuana operation in the basement of his home. Bartkowicz, confident of his compliance with state laws, boasted of its size and profitability.

"I'm definitely living the dream now," he told 9News.

"The following day, the dream was over.

"Drug-enforcement agents raided his home, placed him under arrest, and carried off dozens of black bags of marijuana plants and growing lights.

"The Obama administration promised in October that the federal government would respect state laws allowing the growing and selling of marijuana for medicinal use, but the Drug Enforcement Agency sent a loud message with the arrest of Bartkowicz.

""It's still a violation of federal law," said Jeffrey Sweetin, the DEA special agent in charge of the Denver office. "It's not medicine. We're still going to continue to investigate and arrest people."

"The United States Attorney's office will decide Tuesday if charges will be filed against Bartkowicz.

"In an interview from his jail cell, Bartkowicz said he believes the DEA is making an example of him. He would never have exposed himself if he believed his business was illegal.

"If I knew what I was doing was illegal, I would have never made a public display of myself," he said. "I would not have put myself in the line of fire if I was knowingly violating the law."

"Sweetin wasn't surprised by Bartkowicz' confidence.

"According to him and according to what he's seen on the news, he probably believes he is legal," Sweetin said.

"And according to Sweetin, it isn't just growers who face arrest. The dispensaries are next on the list.

"The time is coming when we go into a dispensary, we find out what their profit is, we seize the building and we arrest everybody. They're violating federal law; they're at risk of arrest and imprisonment," he said to The Denver Post. "Technically, every dispensary in the state is in blatant violation of federal law."

"Deputy U.S. Attorney General David Ogden told federal agents in an October memo to not target people in "clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state laws providing for the medical use of marijuana."

"Sweetin said the memo does nothing to change federal law, which makes marijuana illegal.

"The difference between the Obama administration's stated mission to end the "war on drugs" and the actual enforcement of that policy by DEA agents may not come as a surprise to those who have seen the Office of National Drug Control Policy's (ONDCP) budget for fiscal year 2011.

""We're not at war with people in this country," Obama's drug czar Gil Kerlikowske told The Wall Street Journal in May.

"But according to 2011 funding "highlights" released by the ONDCP (PDF link), the Obama administration is growing the drug war and tilting its funds heavily toward law enforcement over treatment.

"During the interview in his jail cell, Bartkowicz said he realized his arrest is the center of a national debate and defended his right to publicly declare his business.

""I'm the poster boy now," he said. "If I am legal, why should I be in the shadows?""

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We need to repeal the federal DEA law. This War on Drugs was a well-intentioned but misguided initiative that has since turned into a costly infringement of common sense and fiscal conservatism and is now an ugly monster against individual liberty, personal privacy and states rights.

All these frivolous law enforcement agencies need to be turned on illegal immigration, not US citizens growing medical pot for sick people, in a state where it's legal.

What we have to do is remove Barack Obama from office next presidential election. And remove all his friends in Congress. That is the answer. And we have to put in the White House the right person. That person must be against illegal aliens. And that person must enforce current immigration laws. And must be against amnesty.

Originally Posted by immigration2009

What we have to do is remove Barack Obama from office next presidential election. And remove all his friends in Congress. That is the answer. And we have to put in the White House the right person. That person must be against illegal aliens. And that person must enforce current immigration laws. And must be against amnesty.

First and foremost, they must abide by the Constitution. Those are the base fundemental laws that have been swept aside and replaced with a state of confusion.

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"The Obama administration promised in October that the federal government would respect state laws allowing the growing and selling of marijuana for medicinal use, but the Drug Enforcement Agency sent a loud message with the arrest of Bartkowicz. 

""It's still a violation of federal law," said Jeffrey Sweetin, the DEA special agent in charge of the Denver office. "It's not medicine. We're still going to continue to investigate and arrest people."

Too bad the Department of Homeland Security does not pursue their obligations with the same zest as our very own DEA.

"It's still a violation of federal law."

So is illegal immigration!

Originally Posted by immigration2009

What we have to do is remove Barack Obama from office next presidential election. And remove all his friends in Congress. That is the answer. And we have to put in the White House the right person. That person must be against illegal aliens. And that person must enforce current immigration laws. And must be against amnesty.

Yes, and support the FairTax which penalizes illegal aliens because they aren't eligible for the Prebate which puts them at a comparative disadvantage on wages needed to live in the US and shuts down all these phony 501 C 3 "advocacy" organizations lobbying our Congress for Amnesty and Benefits and Citizenship for illegal aliens, because under the FairTax, none of their corporate and other sponsors can deduct their donations off their taxes, because there won't be any income tax to deduct it from. Shareholders will frown on wasting their earnings on National Council of La Raza, its 300 national affiliates, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the ACLU, the MALDEF, the Catholic Church and all the other traitors posing as "charities" bankrupting our nation and their business in the process.

www.fairtax.org

Originally Posted by NoBueno

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"The Obama administration promised in October that the federal government would respect state laws allowing the growing and selling of marijuana for medicinal use, but the Drug Enforcement Agency sent a loud message with the arrest of Bartkowicz. 

""It's still a violation of federal law," said Jeffrey Sweetin, the DEA special agent in charge of the Denver office. "It's not medicine. We're still going to continue to investigate and arrest people."

Too bad the Department of Homeland Security does not pursue their obligations with the same zest as our very own DEA.

"It's still a violation of federal law."

So is illegal immigration!

It sure is. It's a damn shame DHS isn't as diligent with its just cause as DEA is with its unjust cause. Straighten it out people! Get it right! We have the power. Clean up this clusterfraud in 2010.