And this the day after the DEA had to admit (much like the ATF with the guns to Mexico) that the last few years they have been flying in cocaine to be put on the street from Columbia, and that they have laundered millions of dollars in Mexico and they had to admit they have lost track of almost every penny… millions…. down iin Mexico.. just floating around.. cocaine on our streets so they can track usage… I mean they are supplying, running, selling and laundering and they obfuscate the fact by busting some penny ante medical cannabis operations so as to make the headlines and bury the fact that the DEA is MUCH MORE HARMFUL TO YOUR HEALTH than cannabis ever was. 

I am so angry I could spit.. they have a blank check.. and then they grab the money from operations like this, run it down to Mexico and lose it.. over and over they lie, cheat, steal and kill over a silly silly grass that has never killed anyone on it’s own accord.. We have entrusted a very corrupt agency with far too much power and influence.. their obvious fetish lay down in Mexico and sick people and medical cannabis is just a incidental casualty in their war to keep well financed and everything running well and to keep themselves gainfully employed… I mean there is ZERO accounting and auditing on even the local level.. we just take law enforcements ‘word’ on the monies and properties they confiscate over weed.. I mean they admitted yesterday they have been laundering it down in Mexico (and repeatedly lost it)…Why is the media not focusing more on that as well I wonder.. it’s real.. some covered it slightly.. I would think it should be quite on display so we can see the real dangers of marijuana being illegal.

Our society is creating intergenerational drug users and attempting to justify usage.

Like Colorado, Oregon has become a haven for illegal drug trafficking through Oregon’s Marijuana program.  Dr. Thurstone is correct there should not even be a debate about where marijuana distribution centers are located.  In 2001, the Supreme Court affirmed Congress’s 1970 judgment about marijuana in United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers’ Cooperative et al., 532 U.S. 438 (2001), which held that, given the absence of medical usefulness, medical necessity is not a defense to marijuana prosecution. Furthermore, in Gonzales v. Raich, 125 S.Ct. 2195 (2005), the Supreme Court reaffirmed that the authority of Congress to regulate the use of potentially harmful substances through the federal Controlled Substances Act includes the authority to regulate marijuana of a purely intrastate character, regardless of a state law purporting to authorize “medical” use of marijuana. http://www.usdoj.gov/
 
Federally, marijuana is illegal.
 
In 1998 many Oregon voters approved the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program through a state ballot initiative and believed, because of misleading campaign ads that it was for a small percentage of people who were sick and dying.  12 years later, as of April 1 2011, there were over 40,000 marijuana cardholders.  More than 35,793 (or 90%) of those cards had been issued for chronic pain.   
 
It is important to note that doctors are not allowed to prescribe marijuana because it is not a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved medicine; they may only recommend it. Further data indicates in Oregon that it is not the mainstream of professional doctors that are recommending marijuana, but doctors whose only focus is marijuana and are involved in the marijuana movement. In Oregon one doctor has written 35% of the recommendations for cardholders, and 10 others have written 59%. 
 
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/print_story.php?story_id=127128421107102600
 
As of October 1, 2011 there are an additional 15,000 cardholders, that is a 38% increase in just 6 months, making the total cardholders at 55,322 with over 92% of those cards issued for chronic pain (50,696). (www.oregon.gov)   
 
Oregon’s marijuana program is being used to promote marijuana as medicine and is in direct conflict with federal laws which have never deemed smoked marijuana as medicine. 
 
The impacts to Oregon communities have been overwhelming because of the misuse of the program. The law did not define any boundaries on where this marijuana could be grown, other than it cannot be visible to the public. Therefore, in communities across Oregon, innocent neighbors have cardholders, caregivers, and marijuana site growers who are growing a federally illegal drug in their backyards, homes, apartments, attics, closets, bedrooms, garages, basements, out buildings, and land lots all providing easy access for burglars, children, and animals.
 
It is reasonable to question why, if marijuana advocates really believe that marijuana is an effective medicine do they not push for the valid research that follows the proper procedures to obtain FDA approval.  The answer is obvious as Dr. Robert Dupont noted, “there is only one reason the advocates for “medical marijuana” do not use this new openness of the FDA to fulfill their hopes, and that is the difficulty they face in proving that smoked marijuana is an effective and safe way to treat any illness.”

http://www.ibhinc.org/pdfs/RLDMedMJTestimony031407.pdf
 
Thank you Federal Government in Colorado for cracking down on these illegal marijuana distribution centers.

Like Colorado, Oregon has become a haven for illegal drug trafficking through Oregon’s Marijuana program.  Dr. Thurstone is correct there should not even be a debate about where marijuana distribution centers are located.  In 2001, the Supreme Court affirmed Congress’s 1970 judgment about marijuana in United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers’ Cooperative et al., 532 U.S. 438 (2001), which held that, given the absence of medical usefulness, medical necessity is not a defense to marijuana prosecution. Furthermore, in Gonzales v. Raich, 125 S.Ct. 2195 (2005), the Supreme Court reaffirmed that the authority of Congress to regulate the use of potentially harmful substances through the federal Controlled Substances Act includes the authority to regulate marijuana of a purely intrastate character, regardless of a state law purporting to authorize “medical” use of marijuana. http://www.usdoj.gov/
 
Federally, marijuana is illegal.
 
In 1998 many Oregon voters approved the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program through a state ballot initiative and believed, because of misleading campaign ads that it was for a small percentage of people who were sick and dying.  12 years later, as of April 1 2011, there were over 40,000 marijuana cardholders.  More than 35,793 (or 90%) of those cards had been issued for chronic pain.   
 
It is important to note that doctors are not allowed to prescribe marijuana because it is not a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved medicine; they may only recommend it. Further data indicates in Oregon that it is not the mainstream of professional doctors that are recommending marijuana, but doctors whose only focus is marijuana and are involved in the marijuana movement. In Oregon one doctor has written 35% of the recommendations for cardholders, and 10 others have written 59%. 
 
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/print_story.php?story_id=127128421107102600
 
As of October 1, 2011 there are an additional 15,000 cardholders, that is a 38% increase in just 6 months, making the total cardholders at 55,322 with over 92% of those cards issued for chronic pain (50,696). (www.oregon.gov)   
 
Oregon’s marijuana program is being used to promote marijuana as medicine and is in direct conflict with federal laws which have never deemed smoked marijuana as medicine. 
 
The impacts to Oregon communities have been overwhelming because of the misuse of the program. The law did not define any boundaries on where this marijuana could be grown, other than it cannot be visible to the public. Therefore, in communities across Oregon, innocent neighbors have cardholders, caregivers, and marijuana site growers who are growing a federally illegal drug in their backyards, homes, apartments, attics, closets, bedrooms, garages, basements, out buildings, and land lots all providing easy access for burglars, children, and animals.
 
It is reasonable to question why, if marijuana advocates really believe that marijuana is an effective medicine do they not push for the valid research that follows the proper procedures to obtain FDA approval.  The answer is obvious as Dr. Robert Dupont noted, “there is only one reason the advocates for “medical marijuana” do not use this new openness of the FDA to fulfill their hopes, and that is the difficulty they face in proving that smoked marijuana is an effective and safe way to treat any illness.”

http://www.ibhinc.org/pdfs/RLDMedMJTestimony031407.pdf
 
Thank you Federal Government in Colorado for cracking down on these illegal marijuana distribution centers.

Glad to see pot stores getting shut down. These places are horrible!!

There is not one bit of scientific proof that show that marijuana is a “dangerous drug”. In fact, a major chemical compound is marijuana (CBD) is proven to reduce tumors, prevent cancer, strengthen the immune system, aid in digestion, as well as offer a safe, NON NARCOTIC method of pain relief. Your children are able to walk by liquor stores on their way to school, and watch their peers and family members consume this drug that offers NO medicinal purpose and IS dangerous and harmful. And that doesn’t concern you?