Attorney general defends medical pot crackdown.

[Webster Green]

"Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday defended the Justice Department's pursuit of medical marijuana growers and dispensers, saying they "took advantage" of state medical marijuana laws.

Appearing before the House Judiciary Committee, Holder acknowledged the Justice Department had broken with the Bush administration and pledged not to go after anyone acting within state law.

Nevertheless, those involved in large-scale marijuana growing and distribution have "come up with ways in which they are taking advantage of these state laws and going beyond that which the states have authorized," Holder said in response to questions from Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. "Those are the only cases that we have been going after."

Nadler pointed out that as a presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama had promised that he wouldn't use "Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue." "

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/07/MND51OULC1.DTL

[br]Holder is lying. His DEA thugs are closing down legal dispensaries. Lots of them!

[PossumSqueezins]

1. Attorney General defends the indefensible

This isn't going to win Obama any votes. What are they thinking? If only they would go after Wall Street thieves with half the fervor.

[Cali_Democrat]

2. Holder has proven to be an unmitigated disaster

Why go after medical marijuana? What about the war criminals and banksters?

[99th_Monkey]

3. I saw that on C-Span, and kept waiting for a brave Congress person

to ask Holder why, if as he claims, the Medical Marijuana peeps he's cracking down on
are "taking advantage" of loop-holes in STATE LAWs, then isn't that the business of
the STATE ENFORCEMENT agencies to deal with? ... not Federal Storm Troopers.

I'm still waiting

[Vincardog]

4. Isn't Bain Capital '"taking advantage" of' Federal tax laws? AG holder

should do his job and jail some banksters; not fuck with MM patients.

[jaysunb]

5. I have to call "bullshit" on Holder AND Obama on this one

Holder is lying through his teeth ! You are 100% correct that they have raided and ROBBED all legal entities.

[rhett o rick]

6. Be careful, you will bring the wrath of the neighborhood watch down on you.

This is "election time" and the DU Constitution no longer applies.

[kestrel91316]

7. Fuck Holder. Betcha he has huge holdings of stock in the prison-industrial complex and

Big Pharma and alcohol/tobacco. He's feathering his own nest by attacking MMJ.

[frylock]

8. cough*bullshit*cough