Obama's War On Weed: White House Launches Crackdown On Medical Marijuana

[DreamSmoker]

Obama's War On Weed

SAN FRANCISCO -- Three years on, not a single Wall Street banker has been prosecuted after a financial crisis rooted in rampant fraud brought the global economy to its knees. President Obama's Department of Justice has more dangerous miscreants to worry about: medical marijuana shop owners.

The DOJ has launched an assault on medical pot dispensaries, vowing to shut down establishments licensed and regulated by state and local governments, in a reversal of an earlier policy, based on an Obama campaign promise to leave the shops alone as long as they followed state law.

And while major corporations have managed to get their federal tax bills down to zero, the IRS has determined that pot clinics can't deduct salaries, rent, the cost of bud or other operating expenses on their tax returns. If a business can't deduct those expenses, its tax bill almost always winds up exceeding even its profits.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/11/war-on-weed-obama-marijuana_n_1005483.html#s401970

[ixion]

1. Oh, but Obama's 'official' position is that they support medical mj

so this isn't really happening, you see. :sarcasm:

[tridim]

2. The Obama Administration officially supports legal MMJ

[polichick]

3. Talk is cheap.

[theaocp]

4. I recommend he tell his dogs to heel.

They seem to be shitting all over his official support.

[DreamSmoker]

5. Really????

Obama's actions speak so much louder than his words....
Says one thing for us to believe and then does something else instead...

Now thats Change we can believe in...

[Upton]

7. Then Obama's stated official position is a lie..

and actions really do speak so much louder than words..

[Dragonfli]

9. Why do you keep repeating a lie told in 2009? Try the truth for a change, it's liberating /nt

[Romulox]

13. Your lies hurt more than help right now. Is this "false flag" support?

:hi:

[markpkessinger]

19. Then the Obama Administration "officially" lies n/t

[Uber DUer]

6. That is why we need a nationwide initative to send a big honkin' loud message

to Congress..

Get it DONE.

Stop stalling, and get it legalized.

If alcohol and cigarettes are legal, then so should cannabis.

Legalize it, regulate it, and tax it - Congress and the President might even be surprised to find a big, fat surplus on the budget if this is done correctly.

[AngkorWot]

8. How many medical marijuana dispensaries are there are in the US right now?

How many were there under the Bush admin?

[Skip_In_Boulder]

11. I don't know how many there are nationwide

But in Denver there are more dispensaries than there are Starbucks. :D :P

[Upton]

17. If your point is there are more dispensaries under Obama..

he's doing his best to offset that by conducting more raids than the Bush administration..

Since January 2010, it has staged more than 90 raids on dispensaries and growers, according to figures collected by the patient-advocacy group Americans for Safe Access.

That represents a pace double the Bush administration's, says ASA spokesperson Kris Hermes. The administration has also threatened state officials with prosecution if they participate in licensing or regulating medical marijuana. The Internal Revenue Service has expanded auditing dispensaries for tax evasion, on the grounds that drug-trafficking enterprises cannot legally claim business-expense deductions.

In April, ASA gave Obama an F for his policy on medical marijuana. He's "no better than Bush," says Hermes.


http://cannabisnews.com/news/26/thread26538.shtml

[saras]

10. His likely policy is to clean up ALL 'illegal' use before allowing Big Pharma to take over

No criminal potheads or their supporters, not a single one, will be allowed into the medical marijuana industry. I'd bet good money that a pot conviction will absolutely keep someone from getting hired in whatever system the Feds implement.

He does support medical marijuana - that is, marijuana as conceived, manufactured, marketed,and regulated by Big Pharma. But what do those damned hippie dopesmokers and drug dealers have to do with it besides rubbing it into his face that there's a whole multimillion-dollar industry right under their noses that they don't know how to steal all the money from yet?

[Skip_In_Boulder]

12. Yeah you are right

When all the kinks get worked out it will go to big pharma.

[marlakay]

16. This is what I thought when I first heard of it

He is in talks with big pharma about taking over medical pot. I read somewhere last year about pharma buying big plots of land to grow it on, like they were getting ready.

[doublethink]

20. ........

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1197002

[marlakay]

23. Should have known it was here....

[slay]

14. "not a single Wall Street banker has been prosecuted" - yet they go after weed

they go after our own people - many of whom NEED it for medical issues. this is seriously fucked up. and the rules that the medical places have to play by are already totally unfair: "And while major corporations have managed to get their federal tax bills down to zero, the IRS has determined that pot clinics can't deduct salaries, rent, the cost of bud or other operating expenses on their tax returns. If a business can't deduct those expenses, its tax bill almost always winds up exceeding even its profits."

more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/11/war-on-weed-obama-marijuana_n_1005483.html

[Romulox]

15. The man ran as a peace-maker in every respect, even got the Nobel. All he knows is WAR

War on US citizens continues even as new foreign adventures commence.

[jwirr]

18. The question is why? Who's vote does he think he is getting by

doing this? Certainly not most of the 99% and not even all that many of the 1%. Maybe he is getting ready to hand this over to big pharma. Legalize it only if it is run through them. He must know that the use of marijuana is not going to stop. They have been trying for years.

[doublethink]

21. ........

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1197002

[jwirr]

22. Yes.