Attorney General Holder & the DEA.
He does not need Congressional approval to do this.
It's Executive Action, pure & simple!
I'm not talking about "legalization" or even 'decriminalization" of marijuana.
That would need Congressional approval and is probably several years off.
I'm saying, as are MANY Democrats in high places, (like Nancy Pelosi,) that Obama MUST cease these wasteful, stupid raids on legal medical marijuana dispensaries; or he is going to find himself out of a job come January 20, 2013.
There are millions of voters who will simply stay home this November, Democrats & Independents mostly, if he continues (as you put it) "his heavy-handed way"
and continues to waste DOJ & DEA resources on trying to make it harder for medical pot patients to get their "medicine' in those states which have approved medical marijuana
The DEA & DOJ should only raid those pot growers who are in violation of federal AND state law, since they are definitely committing illegal acts, and they SHOULD be prosecuted.
There are plenty of these huge illegal pot gardens, many on government land, with booby traps & guards with guns etc...THESE guys need to be caught & prosecuted, not the legal, state sanctioned medical marijuana dispensaries.
"Nineteen states have legalized medical cannabis or effectively decriminalized it.
Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Washington D.C."
(Wikipedia)
Note that many of these states are "blue" states, and if millions of Dems & Independents stay home, then the Republicans might will win many "safe" Democratic Congressional seats, as well as some Senate seats + a few governorships too.
Obama HAS to know that to continue to raid these legal pot dispensaries is
essentially "giving aid and comfort to the Republicans."
THESE MEDICAL POT RAIDS MUST CEASE, or soon we will be talking about our new leader,
President Willard Mitt Romney, and possibly a totally Republican Congress as well.
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