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Mega MMJ Growing Gets Attention of The Feds
Posted by CN Staff on August 03, 2010 at 18:24:11 PT
By Angela Woodall, Oakland Tribune
Source: Oakland Tribune
Oakland -- The nation's top narcotics watchdog, the Drug Enforcement Administration, has requested information about Oakland's ordinance permitting large-scale medical pot growing facilities. DEA Spokesman Rusty Payne said agents wanted to know if the ordinance on the city website was a draft or a final version. He would not specify why the agency wanted the information. But the inquiry raised speculation that the new plans have put Oakland in the agency's crosshairs. 
Payne downplayed the speculation but said, "Anytime there is large-scale marijuana cultivation, it is something that would interest us."Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan said so far the DEA has sought information but offered no feedback. She co-sponsored the ordinance with fellow Councilmember Larry Reid.Agents requested copies of the ordinance from Kaplan's office. They then called for details and a timeline for the plan from Oakland administrator Arturo Sanchez, who will oversee the permitting process once the application process begins sometime after September. Kaplan said the DEA told her that the agency is collecting information from other cities that allow medical marijuana in an attempt to review the patchwork of laws in the absence of federal guidelines. Marijuana is illegal under federal law. But a 2009 memo by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder signed that going after medical marijuana is a low a priority as long as the local industry conforms to state medical cannabis measures. There is some question about whether Oakland's industrial-level cultivation violates California law and what it will mean for the city if California voters approve a statewide measure to make marijuana legal in all its uses. Payne said the DEA is currently investigating Colorado dispensaries that are in violation of the state's medical marijuana laws and have tried to use them as a shield for illegal operations. Source: Oakland Tribune (CA)Author: Angela Woodall, Oakland TribunePublished: August 3, 2010Copyright: 2010 MediaNews Group, Inc. Contact: triblet angnewspapers.com Website: http://www.oaklandtribune.com/URL: http://drugsense.org/url/o9QROehpCannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml
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Comment #23 posted by Hope on October 18, 2010 at 21:56:10 PT
Mahakal
It is good to see you! 
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Comment #22 posted by greenmed on October 18, 2010 at 21:48:55 PT
mahakal
It is good to see you. Axis of Love is a model of community outreach. Many patients cannot afford the prices at the higher-overhead dispensaries. There should be one in every community; I expect a majority of medical growers would be eager to supply some medicine to such a good program.Best wishes on the outcome of the DPH decision.
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Comment #21 posted by FoM on October 18, 2010 at 20:11:39 PT
mahakal
It's good to see you. That's great that you volunteer to help like that.
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Comment #20 posted by mahakal on October 18, 2010 at 19:56:44 PT
Axis of Love SF
This is where I volunteer.http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/10/marijuana_dispensary.php
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Comment #19 posted by mahakal on October 18, 2010 at 19:52:22 PT
Roger Christie
What a shame. He had the wrong recipe for anointing oil anyhow, using cassia leaf instead of Ceylon cinnamon (Kinman Bosm) for one of the ingredients.Sacrament should not be sold. Once you pronounce blessings, you are commercializing God to exchange cannabis for money, and that is not protected by the first amendment.
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Comment #18 posted by rchandar on August 11, 2010 at 10:09:57 PT:
Our DEA
I think these people should be stripped of all their powers. In all seriousness, their capacity to arrest and seize drugs and property are completely unconstitutional and unnecessary.No one needs the DEA. Customs, local police, and the Coast Guard are more than enough. The entire policy needs to be changed from this organization's aggressive mongering to a just system in which the law is upheld, not flouted and humiliated. Basically these jerks need to find another job.Clarisse...
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Comment #17 posted by Hope on August 05, 2010 at 04:55:03 PT
Konagold
I guess I meant he didn't kill or assault anyone or outright steal. Although the stealing part might be debatable.You know more about it that I ever could. That's why I asked you in the first placeI'm going with your scenario on the situation.Even without knowing all that you just told us about, his ministries always looked more like a scam to make money, to me, than a ministry of any kind.
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Comment #16 posted by konagold on August 05, 2010 at 03:05:37 PT
oops
meant Katrina not Kristina must a had a brain fart
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Comment #15 posted by konagold on August 04, 2010 at 21:59:38 PT
Hope comment 14
"He didn't do anything that was really that wrong."I disagreehe fought the med pot law's passage in this state; yet hides behind a trumped up religion to sell medicine at contraband pricesa saint would give it away yet the self-centered brag about driving a Mercedes Benz to a lawyers conference[ as Christie stated he did in the transcript]he sold a 'sanctuary kit' for up to $250 promising protection from prosecution, a fraudulent claim, as is proven by at least one conviction in a state other than Hawaii [interstate=Feds]the judge ruled in this conviction that THC ministries beliefs "do not rise to the level of Religion" and shows Christie engaged in mail fraudimagine you were in New Orleans at the Super-dome in the aftermath of Kristina would some fellow in a religious suit have the right to charge you $250 to get out of the storm?? how righteous would the fellow be to charge for that which should not only be given, but BE a given that no charge is involved?? many would see that as inhumane  
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Comment #14 posted by Hope on August 04, 2010 at 15:00:30 PT
Konagold
Christie.Dang!You're right though.I never cared for his big plan that would supposedly help people avoid prosecution.It was for him, I always thought, about getting those fees for his religion cards. He was a super salesman of all that stuff. He went too far. He poked that particular bear, the DEA, too hard... and the snot and slobber... I guess he's got to deal with it.Like it or not, the DEA beast exists and remaining aware of that reality is a healthy thing.It's still a shame. He didn't do anything that was really that wrong. He just provoked the bear... the beast, the DEA, to the hideous state that he's in now.It makes me sad.
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Comment #13 posted by Hope on August 04, 2010 at 14:26:15 PT
Runruff comment 7
I agree.
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Comment #12 posted by Brandon Perera on August 04, 2010 at 14:09:10 PT:
Ask the military to defend the factories!
Maybe the dea wouldnt want to cross the lines of the military since there on the same side. Maybe we could find corruption that way also.
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Comment #11 posted by FoM on August 04, 2010 at 13:18:28 PT
konagold
I agree but it would just make it easier for someone in a hurry to read the title. 
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Comment #10 posted by konagold on August 04, 2010 at 13:02:47 PT
Hope re Christie
Christie is in jail, 17,000 wiretapped conversations, 9 weapons, 33 lbs of pot, 3000 plants, $30,000 cash, 13 conspirators, 38 cds and 3 dvds given to defense attorneys one transcript from 2 years ago in which Christie sells a half pound, which he admits to buying at $2100, for $3100 to an undercover agent and confidential informant who tell him they plan to sell it in Honolulu for $5000 and they plan to do 2 or 3 pounds per week at that rate his goose is cookedmoney changing in a house of prayer has its own karma 
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Comment #9 posted by Hope on August 04, 2010 at 12:45:05 PT
Konagold
Have you heard anything new about Roger Christie?
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Comment #8 posted by konagold on August 04, 2010 at 12:36:32 PT
FoM re title
the title was self contained in the link
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Comment #7 posted by runruff on August 04, 2010 at 11:56:59 PT
Drug Executioners of America = the DEA
How diluted must a culture become until it implements an execution squad to kill and cage individuals who consume a controlled substance?A "controlled substance"? Does this directive seem a little askew ?Controlled by who, by what authority?The CSA and the DEA are a ruse. An illusion created with unashamed power, loose claims and a willingness to kill and destroy people and families with a wantonness known only to sociopath personalities and violent dictators.
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Comment #6 posted by Rainbow on August 04, 2010 at 08:59:42 PT
fear in politics
The goobermint workers are in fear of the DEA, the SS troopers."DEA has sought information but offered no feedback" So if they are not helpful tell them to pound salt or take a hike. They are supposed to be at the service of taxpayers and protecting us but alas they are criminals themselves teh DEA.
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Comment #5 posted by FoM on August 04, 2010 at 05:35:21 PT
konagold
Thank you. If you put the title in it would help us to see what the article is about.http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread25842.shtml#3
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Comment #4 posted by konagold on August 04, 2010 at 01:53:14 PT
FoM
http://abcnews.go.com/US/TheLaw/emerald-triangle-marijuana-legalization-destroy-americas-cannabis-capital/story?id=11302182
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Comment #3 posted by GentleGiant on August 03, 2010 at 22:47:37 PT:
Oh, Oh. . . . . the boogey man is coming.
I tell you, these guys and gals (I suppose) just don't get it. We are talking about a medical crop, even if its a plantation. But, after all the judicial reviews not putting a cap on how much you can have, this plantation appears to be legal under California law. Hopefully, California legalizes, cause the state will not, probably and shouldn't enforce the federal law. So it'll be just left to the feds to enforce. Good luck on that endeavor. Not!
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Comment #2 posted by Hope on August 03, 2010 at 20:10:20 PT
Oh no. The DEA.
Snot and slobber time.
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Comment #1 posted by runruff on August 03, 2010 at 19:07:14 PT
When will they get that the DEA is illegal?
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!
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