Way worse than NSA fears 3: Idaho Medical Marijuana Advocates Return From Trip, Find Children Taken

[uhnope]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/idaho-medical-marijuana-advocates_n_3179958.html

Lindsey and Josh Rinehart and Sarah Caldwell, three of Idaho's most outspoken medical marijuana advocates, returned from a trip last week to find that their children had been turned over to Child Protective Services. They were quickly informed that authorities had raided the Rineharts' house, where the four boys had been left with a babysitter, on suspicion of marijuana trafficking, possession and injury to a child, the activists told KTVB last week.

[burnodo]

1. not surprised this "raid" happened while they were away

[cali]

2. this is out of control first the tragic story of the parents who had

their toddler taken by child protective services because they smoked pot after she went to bed. the child was murdered by her foster mother. Now this.

And to think we have a former pot head for President.

shame on this administration for this shit. It's contemptible.

[Scuba]

4. +1,000

[kestrel91316]

6. President Obama is in charge of Idaho's child protective services??

Do please show where the Obama administration bears any responsibility for this.

You would do better to look toward the ultra-conservative Mormon-dominated political power structure in Idaho.

But being one to NEVER pass up a chance to attack Obama, your misplaced blaming comes as no big shock.

[jmowreader]

7. Make that "ultra-conservative religious-dominated political power structure"

At the point where the Panhandle begins, Mormon influence wanes. Thanks to y'all in California sending us all your RWNJs, an act for which I stand eternally grateful, North Idaho is infested with Palin-style nonaffiliated fundamentalist Christians.

In South Idaho, tho, Mormonism remains strong. Between the Mormons in the South and the Palinites in the North, we're surrounded by Christian lunacy.

[liberal_at_heart]

10. Obama bears repsonsibility for his cabinet appointments. There are US attorneys

who are politically opposed to legalized marijuana or even just medical marijuana, and they use the DOJs and the DEAs resources to go after medical marijuana patients.

[GiaGiovanni]

15. It's a national policy that is trickling down

If the Feds were to lay off, the lower levels would do so as well.

[Comrade Grumpy]

13. The state of Idaho deserves the credit for this.

It's one of the most reactionary places in the country when it comes to marijuana. The Rineharts have become medical marijuana refugees, fleeing to friendlier climes in Oregon.

It's a stretch to blame this on Obama, unlike, say, DEA raids on dispensaries and Justice Department prosecutions of medical marijuana providers.

[WillyT]

3. Fuck... K & R !!!

[think]

5. While I agree both are not mutually exclusive IMO

Rather they are different heads on the same monster....

[sabrina 1]

8. Got to protect the War On Drugs Funding. Shameful to say the least.

And the CIA needs all that cash to do whatever it is they do without having to ask Congress for it. I wonder if there is any hope for this country or if it's at a point where people are going to start leaving for more democratic places.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. Good lord!

DU is really depressing tonight.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. War On Drugs! Keepin' Us Safe!

...

[Comrade Grumpy]

12. This is several weeks old. These people are now marijuana refugees.

They've now relocated to Medford, Oregon, in a state that recognizes medical marijuana.

Here's Lindsey's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/blueeyeddoll5463

[uhnope]

14. thx for update. I know this story isn't fresh

but it's also not isolated and I used it to make the point

[GiaGiovanni]

16. Do they have their kids?

?