09-10-2018, 12:38 PM
Punatic007 - That's why the dispensaries in California were shut down.
I'm not sure when you are referring to, but California moved from medical to recreational marijuana this year. There has long been motivation for the feds to raid dispensaries regardless of state laws - the spoils of civil forfeiture.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/institutefo...ge-savings
Perhaps you are talking about more recent raids in L.A. for unlicensed shops? I'm sure that is entirely to protect people's health and has nothing to do with the lack of taxes being collected. But no doubt, the raid on Ruggles had to be the government looking out for people's health by removing their source of legally approved daily medication.
Drug enforcement is a means to an end (historically mostly imprisoning immigrants, radicals, minorities, and the poor while seizing their assets) and has nothing to do with promoting health or well-being, which could actually be better addressed if that funding was spent on treatment programs instead like much of the developed world.
I'm not sure when you are referring to, but California moved from medical to recreational marijuana this year. There has long been motivation for the feds to raid dispensaries regardless of state laws - the spoils of civil forfeiture.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/institutefo...ge-savings
Perhaps you are talking about more recent raids in L.A. for unlicensed shops? I'm sure that is entirely to protect people's health and has nothing to do with the lack of taxes being collected. But no doubt, the raid on Ruggles had to be the government looking out for people's health by removing their source of legally approved daily medication.
Drug enforcement is a means to an end (historically mostly imprisoning immigrants, radicals, minorities, and the poor while seizing their assets) and has nothing to do with promoting health or well-being, which could actually be better addressed if that funding was spent on treatment programs instead like much of the developed world.