Nothing short of outragous, sick pot users put in jail in Montana

[dsc]

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/21/why_is_an_obama_appointee_launching_an_anti_marijuana_crusade/

The top federal prosecutor in Montana — Mike Cotter, the U.S. Attorney appointed by President Obama in 2009 — then charged the growers, their greenhouse workers, their bookkeepers, some of their spouses, and even their landlords who had simply provided buildings to the growers, with decades in prison and in some cases virtual life sentences, all under federal drug trafficking statutes.

Now Cotter is breaking his silence and speaking publicly, for the first time about his two-year crusade to shutter the medical marijuana industry and put its practitioners behind bars, in many cases for life sentences. And he is mincing no words. He says that pot has no medical value at all, for anyone, and that if you think otherwise, you are a sucker who has been duped “by slick Madison Avenue marketing” employed by pot dealers. He says pot is a dangerous drug and growing it is a federal crime that must be punished.

The opposite of what doctors have long believed about the benefits of marijuana for many patients, these comments go a long way in explaining much of what happened in Montana over the last two years.

When Cotter charged these citizens in 2011, he gave no credence to a very basic protest that they all made: they’d been assured in writing, by Eric Holder, the U.S. Attorney General, that they could grow medical marijuana and the feds wouldn’t prosecute them.

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As a kid, Obama smoked pot to get high. Now as President his appointees jail people who use pot to fight illness for defacto life sentences. That is despicable.

[avaistheone1]

1. Horrific miscarriage of justice.

Eric Holder needs to step up to the plate and put Cotter in-line.

[hootinholler]

2. Welcome Back!

Your dreams were your ticket out...

[Egalitarian Thug]

3. Despicable, that's exactly the word. n/t

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, dsc.

[Babel_17]

5. An appointee? If he knows he can be removed then he might be willing to listen to reason

No one is telling him to be happy about widespread pot use. But as a nation we are clearly moving to accepting it as an aid to people suffering from a variety of ailments.

So the policy of the DOJ should be to be moving away from wasting prison cells on pot related violations.

Now, if there is a state that vehemently opposes pot and you're smuggling tons of it in, well, then I can see the DOJ having a dilemma.

[duhneece]

6. Wrong, unjust, unfair, mean, ignorant...nt