Can you give me some info on speakeasies or breadcrumbs that will lead me in the direction I seek? – JP
I shouldn’t. These spots exist in a legal gray area (like cannabis clubs back in the day) and I wouldn’t want to cause any trouble. However, if you look for “City of Trees Smokeout” or “Orbitz” on the Instagram, you could probably find the info you are after. I will remind you that these events are for patients only and you will need to have a valid letter of recommendation from your doctor plus a California ID.
What’s up with the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration? Is he off his meds? – Jeff
He’s not off his meds. He’s just trying to adjust to the new paradigm while protecting his $2-billion budget. ICYMI: At a press briefing last week, Chuck Rosenberg had this to say about medical cannabis: “What really bothers me is the notion that marijuana is also medicinal – because it’s not. We can have an intellectually honest debate about whether we should legalize something that is bad and dangerous, but don’t call it medicine that is a joke.” How he can say these things whilst keeping his face from contorting is beyond me. Has anyone on his staff ever showed him even one of the hundreds of studies showing cannabis to be an effective medicine for a variety of ailments? It has been a good and safe medicine for thousands of years.
That he would continue try to go after marijuana users and the cannabis industry despite the fact that the U.S. government has a new law that is supposed to keep the DEA away from states that have legalized cannabis. Listen: if I was in charge of the DEA, and I had just been smacked down by a federal court and I had just looked at the results of the DEA’s own “2015 National Drug Threat Assessment Summary” wherein over one thousand law enforcement agencies listed marijuana as the lowest threat (6 percent of respondents said marijuana was a problem), maybe I would try to shift my priorities. The DEA is outmoded anyways. Drug abuse is a social health issue, not a criminal issue. Prohibition creates crime.
There’s a petition circulating on Change.org to try to get him replaced. I feel like we need a petition to replace the entire DEA.
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