DEA throws another roadblock at Medical Marijuana dispensaries

[rusty fender]

The DEA has already stopped banks and landords from doing business with MMJ dispensaries, which has forced them to pay for everything in cash. Now, the DEA has barred armored car companies from doing business with the dispensaries.

RT (@RT_com)
8/24/13, 2:31 AM
DEA anti-marijuana order might provoke new wave of drug violence on.rt.com/955j33 [link:http://on.rt.com/955j33|

Not even the catapulters can deny that Obama is a gigantic hypocrite on the MMJ issue.

[tridim]

1. Cool story bro.

[rusty fender]

6. Thanks, bro!

[DisgustipatedinCA]

2. One catapulter did precisely that in the first reply.

Luckily, he doesn't look very literate.

So the DEA wants dispensary employees to get shot and killed in armed robberies. Fuck these pieces of shit, all of them, bottom to top.

[Shivering Jemmy]

3. Obama is worse than cancer, Hitler, and Carol Channing.

How I hate him.

[Logical]

4. Obama really lied about this topic. How disappointing. n-t

[tridim]

8. "This topic" doesn't exist. There is no DEA order that restricts armored vehicles.

It is made up.

[cali]

9. bzzzt. grab a clue. just for once.

There isn't an actual order, but threats of prosecution can be very effective. duh.

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A DEA spokeswoman said she couldn’t comment on whether an agency-wide directive was issued but reiterated that under federal law “any business associated with criminal activity – such as marijuana – certainly could be subject to prosecution.” A spokesman for security services provider Brink’s said he wasn’t aware of any change in company policies, while representatives from armored car provider Dunbar could not immediately be reached for comment.

But Steve DeAngelo, executive director of Harborside, said Dunbar informed the dispensary yesterday that the security company could no longer provide armored truck services to MMJ operations. The local Dunbar branch received the mandate from the company’s corporate offices, saying the move is tied to pressure from the DEA, DeAngelo said he was told. The government agency reportedly went so far as to interview Dunbar’s drivers about their clients to identify MMJ businesses with names that aren’t obviously tied to the cannabis industry.

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http://mmjbusinessdaily.com/2013/08/22/armored-truck-companies-reportedly-cutting-ties-with-some-dispensaries-citing-pressure-from-dea/

[tridim]

10. DEA, criminals can be prosecuted. Brinks, not aware. Dunbar, not reachable. Impeach Obama!!!!111

I don't believe single sources with no quotes and no hard proof.

If you can provide a link to the DEA's order, post it. If not, stop wasting our time.

[hobbit709]

11. The relentless defender of the status quo speaks again.

[Comrade Grumpy]

12. I don't know if there is a DEA order. There is, however, this:

From the Medical Marijuana Business Daily article linked to above:

The Drug Enforcement Administration is reportedly pressuring armored truck companies to stop serving state-legal medical cannabis dispensaries, another blow to businesses that must largely operate on a cash-only basis.

Numerous dispensaries – including Harborside Health Center in Oakland, which ranks as the largest MMJ center in the country – said security companies that provide armored transportation have cut them off in recent weeks after receiving a mandate from the federal government.

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Maybe it's just a coincidence that the armored car companies are cutting off the dispensaries?

[tridim]

15. Still no proof. Maybe Dunbar went out of business?

It's much more plausible than claiming the DEA shut down an entire private industry, which is impossible and illegal.

Has Harborside called Brinks?

[cali]

18. No one is claiming the DEA shut down an entire industry

we showed you EVIDENCE that they're pressuring armored car companies not to do business with MM dispensaries- as they've pressured banks not to do business with them.

[Rex]

21. Yes and all you got was a 'Impeach Obama' response.

You know...a worthless response due to sheer desperation. LOOK, the DEA has careers on the line here! They have to prove their job has relevance now that we have 17 security agencies. Heaven forbid the War on Drugs turns out to be nothing more than a ponzi scheme.

[cali]

13. gad. lame and lamer. I'm not suggesting impeachment

but you know that. funny though that in trying to make me look ridiculous, you only serve to make yourself look so. not that that's a hard job. hell, you don't even have to try. it's apparently as easy as breathing for you.l

I posted evidence. YOU? jackshit- as always.

And I already stipulated it wasn't an order. As I said, threats of prosecution are quite effective. Yes, of course businesses can be prosecuted for doing business themselves with an organization that the federal government deems illegal. this isn't rocket science, dear.

Oh, and try speaking for yourself instead of attempting to speak for others.

If you think you can get me to stop refuting the false stuff you post, you're dead wrong.

[tridim]

16. You posted a news story with denials and interpreted quotes from one man. You posted no evidence.

[cali]

17. sorry, that is evidence.

it doesn't fit with your made up narrative so you deny it.

[hobbit709]

19. It's like trying to teach a pig to sing.

You only waste your time and annoy the pig.

[cali]

5. The irony in all this is that the President had no problem smoking his way through hs and college

he knows first hand that marijuana shouldn't be a class 1 drug.

Hypocrisy on a huge scale.

[rusty fender]

7. The Obama administration

could back off the MMJ dispensaries without any cost to their pathetic "war on drugs". But this relentless attack on MMJ feels more like vindictiveness.

[mick063]

14. Pushing people into the Libertarian Party

Again.

Marijuana: The wedge issue of the future.

[malaise]

20. It's quite simple

Follow the money

[woolldog]

22. Without the "war on drugs" what's the point of the DEA?

They have an incentive to keep the war on drugs going. Without it their budget is getting cut, their workers lose jobs, and the head guys lose prestige and power.