Not-so-funny Colorado news. As expected, federal prosecutors have been harrassing medical marijuana users in Colorado - you may remember voters have declared it to be legal here, and the feds don't like it. In October they seized Don Nord's marijuana. Don lives in Colorado and uses MJ to fight cancer and other ailments. The feds took his medicine.
Routt County Judge James Garrecht ruled the feds have to give the drug back to him, but according to today's Rocky, they refuse to do so.
DEA spokesman Bill Grant said the agency wasn't bound by the order.
"Federal law supersedes state law, and the federal government does not recognize the medicinal use of marijuana," he said.
It's hard to find printable words to describe these people, so let me just say if there were any justice in this case the DEA agents would be looking at jail time themselves.
I watched my mother die of breast cancer. Forgive me if I take this topic personally. My mother may not have benefited from cannabis during her treatment, but that isn't the point.
The DEA agents shouldn't be looking at jail time, they should be looking at chemo. About six weeks of it should do.
If they need to do this while incarcerated, I'll go along with it.
Call me cold, but I'll make an exception to my general "I wouldn't wish it on anybody" policy here---because, in effect, these enforcers, the prosecutors they work for, and the judges who let it proceed, are not just wishing it on the rest of us. They're compelling it.
Posted by: Fûz at December 30, 2003 11:25 PMPersonally I think we gave up the tar & feathers treatment way too early.
But the Feds refuse to give back the fellow's property. What now? Will Colorado demand the DEA give back the fellow's property? Will they use force if necessary? Will the people do anything about it other than say it's a damn shame?
The answer is, sadly, no. The state won't risk going toe to toe with the Feds & the people are too apethetic to take any kind of action.
Which is the problem. Yeah, the DEA is acting foolishly by doing this, but what's to keep them from acting foolish? Ain't gonna be the government & it damn sure won't be the people. So they get away with it & they'll build on it.
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