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As America embraces marijuana, the Feds get desperate.
The federal raids this past summer on state-sanctioned medical-marijuana dispensaries located primarily in California demonstrate how disconnected the federal government is from the American people concerning cannabis, as well as how pugnaciously its employees behave.
Recently, the Cato Institute in Washington, DC, hosted a debate between professors Matthew Robinson and Renee Scherlen of Appalachian State University, and the Drug Czar’s top policy analyst, Dr. David Murray. Robinson and Scherlen are authors of Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug War Statistics: A Critical Analysis of Claims Made by the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Following their presentation, Dr. Murray engaged in petty reprisals, including an attack on the authors as “silly” for citing The Emperor Wears No Clothes author and hemp historian Jack Herer in their work. (Check out your government in action: The video and audience Q&A can be found at cato.org/event.php?eventid=3807.)
Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) also got a lesson on the gall of the government: A reply from the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) regarding a Freedom of Information Act request that SSDP had made indicated that SSDP could expect a reply by 2207. SSDP then blogged in jest about “federal bureaucracies moving really slow.” ONDCP assistant general counsel Daniel Peterson shot back: “If you’re going to play games like this, you can expect the same kind of games played on you.”
Is harassing student organizations a good use of taxpayers’ dollars? Again, your government in action.
Jessica Peck Corry is a conservative think-tank policy analyst from the Independence Institute. After writing a July op-ed in the Denver Post in favor of medical access to marijuana, she received a rambling e-mail full of misspellings from the US Justice Department. It was sent by a local DEA agent from the Rocky Mountain Division named Thomas D. Miller. In the message, Miller blasted Corry for “liberal spin” and misleading the public along with her “liberal friends.”
The Colorado media confronted Miller’s boss at the DEA, Jeff Sweetin, about Miller’s harangue. Sweetin responded by saying that the DEA doesn’t believe marijuana is a medicine, and that the agency “will go after cannabis clubs wherever they exist.” He also stated that DEA agents have a right to an opinion and free speech.
Just like the rest of us—except they don’t suffer harassment for exercising theirs. It’s time for some major changes.
—Allen St. Pierre, Executive Director of NORML. Visit norml.org or call 888-67-NORML.
http://hightimes.com/ht/legal/content.php?bid=1441&aid=24
The federal raids this past summer on state-sanctioned medical-marijuana dispensaries located primarily in California demonstrate how disconnected the federal government is from the American people concerning cannabis, as well as how pugnaciously its employees behave.
Recently, the Cato Institute in Washington, DC, hosted a debate between professors Matthew Robinson and Renee Scherlen of Appalachian State University, and the Drug Czar’s top policy analyst, Dr. David Murray. Robinson and Scherlen are authors of Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug War Statistics: A Critical Analysis of Claims Made by the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Following their presentation, Dr. Murray engaged in petty reprisals, including an attack on the authors as “silly” for citing The Emperor Wears No Clothes author and hemp historian Jack Herer in their work. (Check out your government in action: The video and audience Q&A can be found at cato.org/event.php?eventid=3807.)
Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) also got a lesson on the gall of the government: A reply from the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) regarding a Freedom of Information Act request that SSDP had made indicated that SSDP could expect a reply by 2207. SSDP then blogged in jest about “federal bureaucracies moving really slow.” ONDCP assistant general counsel Daniel Peterson shot back: “If you’re going to play games like this, you can expect the same kind of games played on you.”
Is harassing student organizations a good use of taxpayers’ dollars? Again, your government in action.
Jessica Peck Corry is a conservative think-tank policy analyst from the Independence Institute. After writing a July op-ed in the Denver Post in favor of medical access to marijuana, she received a rambling e-mail full of misspellings from the US Justice Department. It was sent by a local DEA agent from the Rocky Mountain Division named Thomas D. Miller. In the message, Miller blasted Corry for “liberal spin” and misleading the public along with her “liberal friends.”
The Colorado media confronted Miller’s boss at the DEA, Jeff Sweetin, about Miller’s harangue. Sweetin responded by saying that the DEA doesn’t believe marijuana is a medicine, and that the agency “will go after cannabis clubs wherever they exist.” He also stated that DEA agents have a right to an opinion and free speech.
Just like the rest of us—except they don’t suffer harassment for exercising theirs. It’s time for some major changes.
—Allen St. Pierre, Executive Director of NORML. Visit norml.org or call 888-67-NORML.
http://hightimes.com/ht/legal/content.php?bid=1441&aid=24
