This morning I read this story in the L.A. Times about a bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers who wrote to the US Department of Justice to object to the DEA's recent raids on medical marijuana operations.
According to the story, the lawmakers want "to pass regulations that require dispensaries to grow their marijuana in rural or industrial areas — eliminating neighborhood grows — and have the state keep a confidential database of their location." However, they are "facing resistance because growers fear that the DEA could use the database to crack down on them."
So while the State of Colorado wants to regulate the medical cannabis industry in a way that benefits all citizens, the DEA wants to drive it underground and into the unregulated world of criminals and thugs.
Medical cannabis is going to be grown and sold. The question is who does it, where, and under what conditions. Either the State will regulate it or the black market will.
Sensible Colorado hosted classes on how to deal with raids and the DEA. Really quite impressive.
ReplyDeleteAnd LEO that support Prohibition need to be informed they're not doctors and to butt out of the various meetings in all states.