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80. First, I don't appreciate you labeling me a liar when it is far from the truth. It is you who is

woefully uninformed. I won't label you a liar since it appears you simply don't know what's been going on all over the country. If you do, then it is, indeed, you who are lying about what this administration has been doing regarding medical cannabis.




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-kampia/obama-from-first-to-worst_b_1001781.html?view=print&comm_ref=false

In 2000, Clinton signed into law a bill] that made it harder for the federal government to seize property through civil lawsuits. Unfortunately, the federal government can still wreak havoc when it wants to, and the Bush and Obama administrations have both threatened some landlords (almost exclusively in California) with property forfeiture if they lease their properties to medical marijuana growers or dispensaries.


The IRS started going after medical marijuana businesses under the second Bush regime, and the IRS has continued doing so under Obama. In a fluke of how federal law is written, the IRS is arguing that businesses can actually deduct the cost of the marijuana that they're selling, but businesses cannot deduct other costs (rent, salaries, insurance, supplies) that any other business would normally deduct. If this doesn't change, almost all dispensaries will either go out of business or become tax evaders; either way, the federal government will be deprived of tax revenues.


This past spring, Obama's U.S. attorneys in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Montana, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington state issued letters to local and state government officials at carefully chosen times, for the purpose of killing medical marijuana reform measures or hampering implementation in each state.

On September 21, Obama's ATF issued an open letter saying that gun shops cannot sell guns to medical marijuana patients -- or people who are known to be addicted to drugs other than alcohol or tobacco, ironically enough.

From a separate story in Raw Story:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/04/exclusive-doj-plan-to-arrest-state-licensers-tax-dispensaries-could-doom-medical-marijuana-industry/

A recent letter from the Department of Justice (DOJ)], threatening state employees in charge of implmenting medical marijuana laws with prosecution, has forced some governors to re-evaluate and even veto popular legislation — all seemingly in violation of what the medical marijauana community thought was a cease-fire with the federal government.

Facing the threat of seeing otherwise innocent state employees thrown in jail, lawmakers are responding in an entirely human fashion: what Allen St. Pierre, executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), called “the old need to CYA — cover your ass.”

Ultimately, the administration’s confusing legal position has led to a stagnation of medical marijuana reform efforts, with some states simply deciding it’s not worth the risk.

And beyond use, he has cut off medical marijuana research, which is unforgivable IMO!

International studies are fortunately ahead of us. Obama's continued backward treatment of medical marijuana research has all but precluded its study in the United States. Here's one of the many issues:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/11/26/obama-war-on-weed.aspx

Of course, in the United States marijuana is so heavily controlled that even if you wanted to conduct a clinical trial, you would have a hard time getting a supply for research purposes. As the Safe Access report states:

" … the federal monopoly on the supply of cannabis has fundamentally limited FDA-approved clinical research to investigate its safety and efficacy in controlling symptoms of serious and chronic illnesses.

In the United States, research is stalled, and in some cases blocked, by a complicated federal approval process, restricted access to research-grade cannabis, and the refusal of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to license private production of cannabis for use exclusively in federally approved research."

Obama's medical marijuana policies are, indeed, backward and impeding both the access to medical marijuana and research. And if you can't acknowledge that, well, that's your issue. I say it's well established FACT!