Positive sign from Attorney General Eric Holder on ending DEA medical cannabis raids

Apparently Holder stated that Obama's campaign promise to end Drug Enforcement Administration raids against medical cannabis providers is now U.S. government policy. This is very good news. Let's hope they stick to it.

Love & Liberty,
        ((( starchild )))

It is a very positive sign; the next step should be quashing the
convictions and prosecutions of people previously persecuted by Bush
and his cohorts.

  Apparently Holder stated that Obama's campaign promise to end

Drug

Enforcement Administration raids against medical cannabis providers

is

now U.S. government policy. This is very good news. Let's hope

they

stick to it.

Love & Liberty,
        ((( starchild )))

> From: "Dale Gieringer" <dale@...>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:30pm
> To: dpfca@..., aro@...
> Subject: CALCBC: US AG Declares DEA MMJ Raids Not US Policy
>
> Speaking at a press conference with DEA administrator Michelle
> Leonhart, Attorney General Eric Holder declared that ending

medical

> marijuana raids "is now American policy."
>
> A reporter asked, "shortly after the inauguration there were

raids

> during the campaign...is consistent with what we will be doing

here

> in law enforcement. He was my boss in the campaign....He is my

boss

> now. What he said in the campaign is now American policy." !!!
> The question appears about 25 minutes into the press conference,
> which was devoted to an operation against the Mexican Sinaloa

drug