Landlords Threatened with 40 Years in Prison - Feds' Marijuana Crackdown Continues

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A San Jose dispensary operator has informed us that the federal government has begun a new round of actions against lawful medical cannabis dispensaries in the South Bay. Landlords are receiving threatening letters from US Attorney Melinda Haag, warning of forty-year-prison sentences if landlords do not evict their dispensary tenants.

Dated April 26, one letter to a San Jose landlord stated: "The office has been advised that there is a marijuana dispensary ... operating at the real property located at ..., which property you own or have under your management control. The dispensary is operating in violation of federal law, and persons and entities who operate or facilitate the operation of such dispensaries are subject to criminal prosecution and civil enforcement actions. Since the dispensary is operating within a prohibited distance of a [Art Academy], the unlawful operation of the dispensary is subject to enhanced penalties."

Haag threatened the landlord with property forfeiture, forty years in prison, and asset seizure, among other penalties.
"Please take the necessary steps to discontinue the sale and/or distribution of marijuana at the above-referenced location. ... Very truly yours, Melinda Haag, United States Attorney."

Our sources forwarded two such letters to us and wrote, "I'm sure there are more of these."

There are perhaps one hundred dispensaries open in San Jose. Citizens passed a marijuana sales tax Measure U in 2010, but the City Council has refused to reasonably regulate the businesses. They exist in a state of local legal limbo.

California legalized marijuana for qualified patients, caregivers, and collectives in 1996 and 2003. In 2008, President Obama said prosecuting state-legal pot patients should not be a priority of the Department of Justice. In 2011, the Department of Justice stated that marijuana businesses were still a priority.

In October 2011, Haag and three other US Attorneys declared war on California's estimated $1.3 billion medical marijuana industry, threatening hundreds of landlords with forfeiture. Hundreds of dispensaries across the state moved or closed. Haag is attempting to seize Harborside Health Center in Oakland, as well as its sister club in San Jose.

Last year, California Gov. Jerry Brown asked the feds to call off their crackdown, saying California didn't need "federal gendarmes" kicking in the doors of lawful businesses. In January, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano told a San Francisco crowd that Haag had "gone rogue," adding, "I'm sorry a house fell on her sister," alluding to the wicked witch in The Wizard of Oz. Last week, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom called for decriminalizing, regulating, and taxing California's multi-billion dollar marijuana industry.

Recent polls show two out of three Americans believe Uncle Sam should leave state-legal marijuana alone. Almost three out of four Americans agree that the federal war on pot costs more than it is worth.

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Source: Breaking News: San Jose Dispensary Landlords Threatened with 40 Years in Prison as Feds' Marijuana Crackdown Continues | Legalization Nation
 
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Dude,
I'm not gonna lie, I looked at her and thought she was kind of hot for a 52 yr. old woman. Maybe she just needs to smoke a couple bowls and get laid.

Any volunteers for chatting her up?

Ps. I do not intend for this to be construed as incitement toward anything unwilling or undesired on her part. I'm just saying that the right person, doing a little flirting might go along way toward mellowing her sexy ass out.
 
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@TanR, ROFLMAO!

I see a daughter, mother, woman, and human.

I can't remember too many stories of pot-heads doing stupid violent things. It is all the other drugged Americans on everything from ALCOHOL to Xanax. It is widely known that cannabis is the most used drug in the world, outside alchohol. AND YET, for all of the smoke, where's the fire?

I trust my fellow patients, potheads and partakers to properly comport themselves with propriety.
 
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Hitler the vegetarian socialist?
 
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Prosecutors: Marijuana policy angered man who shot at White House

Anger over federal marijuana policy inspired an Idaho man to shoot at the White House in 2011, prosecutors say in a court document obtained by the AP. Well, that and his belief that President Obama is the Antichrist.
The president and first lady Michelle Obama were in San Diego when 21-year-old Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez allegedly drove up to the White House and opened fire through the passenger-side window, using a Romanian-made Cugir SA semiautomatic rifle equipped with a telescopic sight.
His goal “was to punish and kill the president, who he believed was the head of a government that was oppressing its citizens in various ways, such as by continuing to criminalize the use of marijuana,” prosecutors say.
Ortega-Hernandez was charged in 2011 with attempting to assassinate the president, shortly after being arrested at a Western Pennsylvania hotel. Quoted in the complaint filed against Ortega-Hernandez at the time, one acquaintance of the suspect “stated that Ortega-Hernandez wanted to ‘hurt’ President Obama and referred to him as ‘the anti-Christ’.” This person also “stated that Ortega-Hernandez … is convinced that the federal government is conspiring against him.”

Source: Prosecutors: Marijuana policy angered man who shot at White House

Ok, maybe somebody more crazy than cannanis griendly.
 
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Always time to get the US out of the UN.

The UN must be getting pressure from the cartels again.
 
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The Un as peace keeping organisation has completely evolved into a f$)ck-up machine. In my opinion the policies that the Un implement always end up having the opposite outcome. The Un telling Bush to eradicate poppy fields in 2002 actually destabilised the country and became a greater threat by pissing off farmers that had welcomed Us intervention against the Taliban. ESR | May 3, 2010 | The UN's hopeless war against Afghan opium

I hate to say that the Un is doing way more harm than good and needs to be F$)cked off asap. The Us and the world would be a much safer place without these moralistic douchebags calling the shots.
 
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Dated April 26, one letter to a San Jose landlord stated: “The office has been advised that there is a marijuana dispensary ... operating at the real property located at ..., which property you own or have under your management control. The dispensary is operating in violation of federal law, and persons and entities who operate or facilitate the operation of such dispensaries are subject to criminal prosecution and civil enforcement actions. Since the dispensary is operating within a prohibited distance of a [Art Academy], the unlawful operation of the dispensary is subject to enhanced penalties.”

The part the Gov't leaves out is there is a major 8 lane freeway between the collective and the school. I didn't realize that kids these days have wings and can fly.
 
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For weed, kids would run across the freeway like those in the signs one sees just south of San Diego.

However, again....all smoke, no fire.
 
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Dude,
I'm not gonna lie, I looked at her and thought she was kind of hot for a 52 yr. old woman. Maybe she just needs to smoke a couple bowls and get laid.

Any volunteers for chatting her up?

Ps. I do not intend for this to be construed as incitement toward anything unwilling or undesired on her part. I'm just saying that the right person, doing a little flirting might go along way toward mellowing her sexy ass out.


Still one of my all time favorite posts!
 
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Glad you got a chuckle out of my tomfoolery J9Black.
 
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