The blunt Federal threats were recently delivered to Oakland City Attorney John Russo by anonymous officials in the Justice Department’s Civil Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco. “The warning is clear: These are illegal, large-scale pot growing operations, with Oakland planning to get a cut of the illicit profits,” officially, said one officially anonymous official.
Back in November when Prop 19, the ballot initiative to legalize weed here in California, failed…Oakland stuck it to medical marijuana patients state-wide by approving a business tax-hike of 5-percent on all medical marijuana operators and future growers that’ll surely lead to a windfall of cashola for Oakland when these factories open next year. So Oakland ain’t gonna be giving up on the idea of mainstreaming marijuana any time soon.
Russo admits the Justice Department officials have been barking about the large-scale grows since last month. “They’ve expressed their concerns that the path Oakland is taking is in violation of the law,” he’s admitted on record. Anyhow, supporters and weed opportunists looking to cash-in on the large scale grows are behind Attorney General Jerry Brown’s recent guidelines calling for a closed-circuit cycle of “marijuana cultivation and consumption with no purchases or sales to or from non-members,” which is really just a reminder of how marijuana collectives and cooperatives are set-up in the first place…as a result of Proposition 215, the measure that legalized medical marijuana back in ’96.
As far as we know, Oakland hasn’t responded yet and their plan for factory weed-farming is still underway. Of course, we’ll let you all know more when we hear more…
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The FEDs could also use the same bogus reasoning that they use to gain jurisdiction of marijuana in the first place.....interstate commerce.
They claim they can regulate marijuana even when it is not sold outside of the state because it might influence pricing in neighboring states. Imagine the "influence" on pricing the 4 huge grow operations would have.
someone needs to pin sarah palin douwn that if she wins, would she honor states rights on med pot
everyone smoke your weed, and dnt forget to pass the torch