As everyone, in the cannabis community, the patients and the co-ops and dispensaries knows, since October, the local cops in Sacramento and Sac County have been waging their OWN PERSONAL "war on marijuana."
Their latest tactic, apparently, has been sending threatening letters to the LANDLORDS of the pot dispensaries, threatening to prosecute the landlords and summarily confiscate the landlords' assets including bank accounts. Cops and DA's say they are doing it because the (Landlords) rent to people (cannabis clubs) who "sell marijuana to virtual anybody who wanted to get stoned. ^1
What gave these DA's and the cops et. al., the power to ignore and disobey an order, persecuting people and going OVER AND OVERTLY against the announcement made by OUR president---he is in fact THEIR commander-in-chief! No one! They took it' on themselves, vigilante-style. This is grossly illegal.
Folks of Sacramento,do you think police here have too much power? That many of them act like nothing more than jackbooted thugs? That, if you have the misfortune to get arrested for ANYTHING no matter how minor, IT IS A FACT that they ALWAYS pad on additional charges that are totally FAKE......["resisting arrest," is probably the most common lies the cops make, but nearly all or most of their testimony in court are lies/extreme exaggerations.]
Cops busted about 100 cannabis dispensaries, collectives and clubs, in the area, in the course of 1-2 months, violating their means of support. Without"official letters," from the Department Of "Just-Us" threatening the LANDLORDS with confiscation of all their property. The clubs just had to "disappear." This is nothing but bullying and extortion by the police and DA, telling them who they can lease to or not. . Obama's appointment of him to now this is going on! The Outrage! The miscarriage of "just-us!"
So, the very best cannabis collectives/co-ops made sure to "follow the law to the "T." And that is State Law, formerly known as Proposition 215, passed in 1996! And we fourteen years later in 2012, in our homes, face jackbooted thugs with a badge to kick in doors, guns pulled, for someone taking about pot?! These are societally-condoned---these days--happens every day! I say silently condoned because most people (adults) favor the use of marijuana as a medicine, but do not rise up and speak up en masse. And most are ignorant of the bad penalties, having a record, being marginalized by gossipers. They have no idea how many humans are incarcerated in the USA. No, they somehow got their bud and as long as they have a connection (legal or illegal), they can give a rat's ass about what the state has done.
Obama shortly after being elected said use of law enforcement against marijuana users and collectives should be the lowest national enforcement policy (I paraphrase President.)
Well back here in Sacramento area, some (unauthorized person or persons.) musta never heard that statement. It was barely reported in mainstream news. People I am sick of this shit.
Join me in many and all fights against prohibition,
Andre S. Lange
^1source quotation from interview with US Attorney Benjamin Wagner, via David Downs
