On Thursday, Eric Holder lied to Congress about DOJ's escalating attacks against medical marijuana:
Mr. Holder said federal officials are not going after those who are staying within the confines of their states' medical marijuana laws, but said some have "come up with ways in which they are taking advantage of these state laws."
"We limit our enforcement efforts to those individuals, organizations that are acting out of conformity with state law," Mr. Holder told a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing. [Washington Times]That statement is simply false, and flagrantly so.
It's been widely reported in the press that federal prosecutors have threatened to arrest state officials merely for administering their own medical marijuana laws. One cannot claim that regulators performing their official duties are "acting out of conformity with state law". They are the state. You can't threaten them with arrest and then subsequently claim that enforcement is only directed at those who violate local laws.
Moreover, the feds have raided hundreds of dispensaries without making any effort at all to determine whether state laws are being violated. Most of the time, they're just confiscating money and medicine without even charging anyone. They keep saying the people they raid were breaking local laws, but they aren't proving that to be the case. When have they ever demonstrated that any of these businesses were violating state laws?
This whole just-enforcing-state-laws excuse is the same nonsense we were hearing from the President a month ago, and the Obama Administration's ability to comfortably repeat this crap owes much to the media's total failure to follow up on it.
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"We limit our enforcement efforts to those individuals, organizations that are acting out of conformity with state law..."
All that needs to be said here is why are the Federal authorities going after violators of State law?
Should it not be the job of the State police forces to enforce their State laws?
Not only is he lying but he also has basically admitted that State authority is no longer being recognized by the Federal government.
A double whammy of Federalist unconstitutional bullshit in one statement.
Just a silly question, but if a raid is made, property destroyed, as well as monies and goods taken, when no warrant was served or individual charged, why doesn't Local Law Enforcement arrest these thugs and charge them with everything they can and prosecute them. All they have to do is get them into the general prison population-THEY'LL take care of the rest...
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