Saying One Thing, Doing Another: Not Change I Can Believe In
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is sending strong signals that President Obama – who as a candidate said states should be allowed to make their own rules on medical marijuana – will end raids on pot dispensaries in California.
Asked at a Washington news conference Wednesday about Drug Enforcement Administration raids in California since Obama took office last month, Holder said the administration has changed its policy.
“What the president said during the campaign, you’ll be surprised to know, will be consistent with what we’ll be doing here in law enforcement,” he said. “What he said during the campaign is now American policy.”
Federal agents raided a medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco Wednesday, a week after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder signaled that the Obama administration would not prosecute distributors of pot used for medicinal purposes that operate under sanction of state law.
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided Emmalyn’s California Cannabis Clinic at 1597 Howard St. in San Francisco’s South of Market district mid-afternoon.
They hauled out large plastic bins overflowing with marijuana plants and loaded several pickup trucks parked out front with grow lights and related equipment used to farm the plants indoors.
The dispensary had been operating with a temporary permit issued by the Department of Public Health.
Hey Obama, call off your goons!
March 27th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
I recall reading elsewhere that some folks in the purview of the Exec Branch (military, law enforcement) had expressed intentions to pursue matters as they saw fit, rather than as the new administration saw fit.
If anyone can be shown to have done this, they need to be charged with insubordination.
March 28th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
I really wonder if Obama is in control of anything. I think he’s just a hood ornament, like Bush was. Who/what is our puppet master? kinda creepy.
*passing joint*
By the way, how is that “war on drugs” going, Obama?