This medical pot salesman could be jailed 35 years in Washington — where pot is legal
#DEA creates “loop-holes” to circumvent new laws.. slapped down by FEDERAL COURT ?
I posted about this very issue back in Oct… see link above… apparently the rulings of FEDERAL COURT means little/nothing to those within the DEA.
Here is the oath that all in law enforcement take:
FBI oath of office
I [name] do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend
the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign
and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same;
that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or
purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the
duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
After all the Constitution is just a piece of paper and apparently can’t stop anyone within the bureaucracy to do what they want
Medical and recreational marijuana is legal in Washington state — so why is Lance Gloor, who operated several medical pot dispensaries, facing 35 years in jail for his business?
Gloor’s trial began on Friday and continues Monday in Tacoma, Washington. He’s in court thanks to fuzzy legal language regulating medical sales in his state: At issue is the question of whether dispensaries like Gloor’s broke the law when they sold the produce of multiple “collective gardens” of weed to qualified medical customers.
Also complicating matters is the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, which was renewed in the recent omnibus spending bill. That provision in theory would prohibit the federal government from prosecuting medical marijuana sellers in states where the product is legal, but in practice the Department of Justice has chosen to interpret the amendment in a way that does little to limit its raids on dispensaries like Gloor’s.
“The government is sort of picking and choosing who they want to prosecute without any sort of coordination,” said Gloor’s defense attorney, Michael Schwartz. “At the time that these allegations arose, the dispensaries were in fact legal under state law. Quite frankly, I think they just don’t like the idea that these dispensaries were doing very, very well financially.” Bonnie Kristian
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There is a simple way to fight this kind of misconduct, but it requires an informed population. It boils down to a two-word term; if one does not know what the two-word term means, I suggest a Google search and about 30 minutes of time to do some reading and educate oneself. The term to which I refer is, “Jury Nullification”.
How can the people trust a government agency that acts like deceitful child looking for a reason to disobey his or her parents? Language loopholes in laws should be inadmissible as evidence in a court of law when it’s being used in favor to prosecute any person. The only way that these language mistakes should be admissible in court is for the good of the defense. The DEA well knows the intention of this Washington state law and obviously sent it to their legal department to pick it apart till they found a way to disobey the directed orders made by Congress and the President. This rogue agency is in fact a self-serving disobedient spoiled child using a simple linguistic mistake against its parents to have ice-cream before dinner.
I really don’t believe that there is 12 people in the state of Washington that would convict anyone on these types of charges. I am also willing to bet that 6 or more of the 12 people sitting on this jury are either MJ smokers or in favor of legal MJ.