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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (56651)	9/6/2011 11:59:32 PM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

"(Or did it not happen by affirmatively passing any legislation... but, perhaps, by failing to pass something? If it was just a rider they stuck onto the annual D.C. appropriations bill, did they simply fail to do so this time? Causing this effect by NOT doing something??????????)" I believe the amendment was proposed and turned down. May or may not be viewed as consent. "The DEA does not generally concern itself (from the point-of-view of policing) with LOCAL law enforcement matters. Their purview is supposed to be national, interstate and international." I wish that were true. I'm on the ground here in Michigan. A method that has been used is for locals to call in DEA. They can't do anything under state law so they call the feds and hope the feds do something. Oddly enough, many times the DEA turns away. But not always. And even when they do, we can never be sure they won't return. Every knock on the door could be a disaster. The DEA also went through the state, when the law first passed, and scared all the hospital systems. Setting back real research several years and making it difficult for even terminal patients in their last few days to have access. There is also an ongoing PR war running. The DEA bypassed confidentiality protections in our law. With the help of our own AG. (who should be protecting our citizens instead of waiving their rights) This thing about the DEA staying out of local stuff is propaganda. Raids by the DEA on mmj folks have gone up a lot during the last couple of years. Pressure is building. Change will come. Tomorrow, in Lansing, we have twenty buses filled with protesters There may be as many as five thousand that show up.