“Robert Duncan moved from Los Angeles to Northern California in 2010 to manage marijuana growing operations for a collective of medical marijuana dispensaries. Although California voters legalized medical cannabis more than 17 years ago, the plant remains illegal under federal law, and the Obama administration launched a renewed crackdown on marijuana in California in 2011.
That October, Duncan’s grow house was raided. A few months later, U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner indicted him and others involved in the dispensary business on the grounds that it had grown too large. Despite California’s struggle with prison overcrowding, and despite new federal guidelines that say size should no longer be considered in prosecution decisions, Duncan, 31, was sentenced to two years in prison. He is scheduled to report to Mendota Federal Correctional Institution near Fresno, Calif., on Monday afternoon. HuffPost Live will go with him.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more here from Matt Ferner, Carly Schwartz, Robert Duncan / The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/03/robert-duncan-marijuana_n_4877072.html?1393850765
Comments
The DEA raids peoples houses, they have been doing so for a long time now. Obama is the president under which several states have been able to get away with legalization, and has made his stance on the issue clear. I suppose you think he can just write a bill to shut down the DEA?