Reply #12: Tell Attorney General Holder: Keep Obama’s Promise and Respect State Medical Marijuana Laws

[Electric Monk]

Attorney General Eric Holder is set to “clarify” his department’s stance on state medical marijuana laws in light of an increasing number of raids and threats against patients, caregivers and even state employees.

Shortly after President Obama took office in 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder issued his now infamous “Ogden memo.” In this memo, Holder ordered US Attorneys General to stop federal prosecutions of patients and caregivers in states where medical marijuana has been legalized.

But in recent months, these same US AG’s have unleashed an intense campaign of violence and intimidation on patients and caregivers. It seems as though, despite Holder’s clear directive two years ago, federal prosecutors are either confused about the department’s stance or have gone completely rogue.

The stories won’t stop piling up: the 26 year old Iraq War veteran gunned down by a SWAT team in Arizona during a botched raid in which no illegal evidence was uncovered; 28 raids in under 24 hours across Montana and California, crippling businesses and putting patients’ health and well-being in danger; threats to prosecute state employees for doing their jobs and implementing state law; and on, and on, and on.

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http://justsaynow.firedoglake.com/2011/06/21/tell-attorney-general-holder-keep-obamas-promise-and-respect-state-medical-marijuana-laws/



Majority Want All American Troops in Afghanistan Home Now



http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/06/21/majority-want-all-american-troops-in-afghanistan-home-now/




Nothing Can Stop Obama From Adjourning Congress, Making Recess Appointments

According to Public Citizen, there’s nothing stopping the President from circumventing the Congress for recess appointments of key positions, including Elizabeth Warren for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. And they have the Constitutional passages to prove it.

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If the President wants to stretch executive power in the area of warmaking, the least he could do is be consistent and not even stretch but use the power granted to him under the Constitution.

http://news.firedoglake.com/2011/06/21/nothing-can-stop-obama-from-adjourning-congress-making-recess-appointments/