Earlier today the Missoula Independent published a memo written by U.S. Attorney Michael Cotter to federal law enforcement officials in Montana. The memo discusses plant counts and weights in what appear to be threshold amounts as a basis for prosecution. Please take a moment to read both the article and the memo. We encourage you to pay particular attention to the comments by Diane Sands, which are quoted in the news story.
It is tempting to read this memo as a license to grow or sell a given amount of marijuana without repercussions, but we caution all providers to be sure to remember that any amount of activity as a provider is still considered illegal by the Federal government, and of course state law still applies. Let’s be careful out there everyone!
Sounds like another round of entrapment to me. I hope I’m wrong, but I would be very wary until we can affect some REAL change at the Federal level.
I believe the real change will come when people realize that the federal government is committing the act of slavery against the people. We did NOT give the feds permission to mess with our inalienable rights. Show me the authority that says we did and I will show you the authority that we, the people still own their own body, and that we have the inalienable right to choose how we medicate it, who we marry, if we have an abortion, etc.
Just realizing that I am in slavery does not necessarily mean that much change will happen. Mao is quoted as having the master’s perspective on this: “Power comes out of the barrel of a gun.” The slave-masters do not give a rat’s patootey about rights. Periodically somebody needs to bleed to have rights respected. Don’t be naive. They arrive unexpectedly and with guns.
Why does the Federal government feel the need to “register and own” the patent to the “cannabis canniboids” if there is, as they continue to state, “NO Medicinal value”?
Also Federal Cases; would have to allow evidence to be presented that clearly shows “equal protection” and “due process”, by way of “Act of Congress” and Federal Law granting District of Columbia (Federal) Medical Cannabis).