Below the jump is a press release from Sensible Colorado.
From their website:
Sensible Colorado envisions a system where drug use becomes a health issue, not a crime issue, through innovative drug policy reform that focuses on prevention and harm reduction education, provides accessible treatment opportunities, and reduces incarcerations, crime, drug use by minors, and strains on the judicial system and police departments while increasing the resources available for healthcare and treatment.
Treating drug use like a health issue? Whoaaaa now… that’s just crazy talk.
For those “conservatives” that profess a belief in the Tenth Amendment and state sovereignty, do you mean it? Or do you only mean it when it is convenient?
My position is clear: Medical marijuana is a state issue, and the feds should stay the hell out of it.
All “conservatives” that support the DEA in this matter, please, never mention the Tenth Amendment again.
You don’t believe in it.
I will be at this event, waving a Tenth Amendment sign. I hope you’ll join me.
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MEDIA ADVISORY — For event on Thursday, February 18
Contact: Brian Vicente, Sensible Colorado, 720-280-4067
Medical Marijuana Patients and Supporters to Rally at President Obama Event
Protesters call for end to recent “rogue” DEA raids; Release of licenced provider and recent arrestee Mark Bartkowicz
DENVER, CO — On Thursday, February 18, at an event to be attended by President Obama, medical marijuana patients and supporters will participate in a protest of the continuing federal raids of medical marijuana patients and providers in Colorado. This event is a response to the recent Drug Enforcement Administration raids of two front-range medical marijuana testing facilities and the Feb. 12 raid of a licensed medical marijuana grower in Highlands Ranch.
“These DEA raids are out of compliance with both the will of Colorado voters and that of the White House,” said Brian Vicente, event organizer and director of Sensible Colorado. “In particular, the recent, armed raid and arrest of licensed medical marijuana provider Mark Bartkowicz, highlights the rogue nature of the regional DEA office. “President Obama needs to be made aware of this agency’s miscreant actions.”
Colorado voters passed a medical marijuana law in 2000. In October, 2009, the Department of Justice issued a memo instructing federal agents to refrain from focusing resources on the arrest and prosecution of individuals following state medical marijuana laws. That memo is available here.
WHAT: Medical Marijuana Protest at Event Attended by President Obama
WHO: **PHOTO-OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE** with Sign-Waving Medical Marijuana Patient, Providers, and Supporters.
WHEN: Thursday, February 18 from 12-1pm
WHERE: Across from the Fillmore Auditorium, at the corner of Colfax and Clarkson in Denver, CO. See Directions HERE
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Sensible Colorado is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting a more sensible, evidence-based approach to drugs and drug policy in Colorado. For more information visit http://www.SensibleColorado.org.
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Brian Vicente, Executive Director
Sensible Colorado
P.O. Box 18768, Denver, CO 80218
Ph# 720 890 4247
Fax# 303 861 0915
brian@sensiblecolorado.org
Please visit www.sensiblecolorado.org to sign up for Sensible Colorado’s
free email updates.
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Brian Vicente, Executive Director
Sensible Colorado
P.O. Box 18768, Denver, CO 80218
Ph# 720 890 4247
Fax# 303 861 0915
brian@sensiblecolorado.org
Please visit www.sensiblecolorado.org to sign up for Sensible Colorado’s
free email updates.
As the Denver Post reports, “Major metro grower jailed,” federal agents have asserted their authority, primacy and superiority over its mere subjects in the district of Colorado.
I say “district,” because states have rights. Districts are mere political subdivisions of, and exist at the whim of, the larger federal government.
Last night the feds, asserting their supremacy, arrested a man who was in full compliance with Colorado state law.
With the federal government’s decision to completely ignore the Colorado Constitution and assert its statutes, any semblance of Colorado autonomy has been crushed.
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Lest there be any doubt, Special Agent Jeffrey Sweetin, who is in charge of the DEA’s office in Denver, was very clear:
“Technically, every dispensary in the state is in blatant violation of federal law. The time is coming when we go into a dispensary, we find out what their profit is, we seize the building and we arrest everybody. They’re violating federal law; they’re at risk of arrest and imprisonment.”
And you thought the Governor, state legislature and state Supreme Court had some say what goes on in Colorado.
Not if the feds decide they do not like it.
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TAKE ACTION
Remember, this is not about medical marijuana. It is about Colorado sovereignty.
In a polite, reasoned manner, tell the feds you do not appreciate them stepping into a Colorado law enforcement matter. Tell them if they have enough time and money to spend usurping Colorado’s sovereignty to enforce federal policy, they have too much time and money.
Tell them to leave us alone. We can handle our own business.
CALL NOW IF YOU CAN
Here is the Denver DEA office contact information:
Media Contact – Special Agent Mike Turner
Phone: 720-895-4214
Email: Robert.M.Turner@usdoj.gov
You can also call these other Colorado field offices:
Colorado Springs, CO — (719) 866-6100
Durango, CO — (970) 385-5147
Glenwood Springs, CO — (970) 945-0744
Grand Junction, CO — (970) 683-3220
And let your U.S. Representative and Senators know you want him/her to get the federal agents out of Colorado state business:
United States Representatives
District 1 – Diana DeGette
(303) 844-4988
District 2 – Jared Polis
D.C. # (202) 225-2161
District 3 – John Salazar
D.C. # (202) 225-4761
District 4 – Betsy Markey
D.C. # (202) 225-4676
District 5 – Doug Lanborn
D.C. # (202) 225-4422
District 6 – Mike Coffman
D.C. # (202) 225-7882
District 7 – Ed Perlmutter
D.C. # (202) 225-2645
Colorado Senators
Mark Udall
Toll free # 877-7-MUDALL
(877-768-3255)
Michael Bennet
Toll free # (866) 455-9866
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Please forward this to any other citizen concerned about Colorado’s sovereignty.
David K. Williams, Jr.
Little Brother had an idea, but he knew his big brother did not approve.
Little Brother went ahead and tried it, but tried to keep it small so as not to bring undue attention to himself. Big Brother eventually noticed, however, but said, “sure, Little Brother, go ahead and play with your little idea, I don’t care.”
Little Brother, no longer concerned about undue attention, really expanded his idea. He still had lots of issues to work out, but he felt he could work them out eventually.
Well, Big Brother decided one day he did not like Little Brother’s idea any more. So he stepped in and stopped it. Just like that.
He does not need a reason. He is Big Brother.
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This is exactly what has happened in Colorado and its burgeoning medical marijuana industry.
And Big Brother is not in a fairy tale or contained in an Orwell novel. He wears a windbreaker with “DEA” across the back in yellow letters.
See “Major metro grower jailed.“
