Medical Marijuana and the DEA

Aug-11-2007 22:29

Medical Marijuana and the DEA

Dr. Phil Leveque Salem-News.com

Phillip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Physician and Toxicologist.



(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I guess I’m just getting old (eighth decade). I just cannot understand the recent raids by Drug Enforcement Agency bozos on sick, debilitated medical marijuana patients. I suppose that if the U.S. Government pays these bozos enough, they will do anything they are ordered to, even against sick patients.

One of the worst I heard about was raiding and taking the medical marijuana crop of a bed-bound quadriplegic with the parting sneer, "We could take your car and house, too, if we wanted to."

The recent raid on Don Dupay, a former Portland, Oregon detective who is very sick with Hepatitis C and on a medical disability pension, stretches understanding. He was growing legally for forty other patients, which is a noble act considering the DEA "goon squads."

I will presume these goons are so brainwashed and regimented that they will just obey orders. The really weird aspect is that in California there are 160 legal dispensaries where 300,000 medical marijuana patients can buy their medicine.

THE DEA IS TRYING TO STOP THIS. What birdbrain hallucinated this? In Oregon there are about 15 thousand patients and 7 thousand caretaker/growers; the DEA is trying to stop this. Am I hallucinating? They must be!

British Columbia grows about 20 billion dollars worth of marijuana per year. California is about the same. Oregon, a smaller state, grows about one billion dollars worth.

Even the U.S. Government estimates 70 million people have tried marijuana and as many as 10 million use it regularly. I won’t call this strange; I’ll call it schizophrenic. Who is running this insanity? Whoever it is, they need to burn a little weed and chill out. PLEASE.

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/august112007/dea_oregon_81107.php



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