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DEA Seizes Medical Marijuana During Denver Lab Raid
On Wednesday, DEA agents raided Full Spectrum Laboratories, a lab in Denver, Colorado, that tests medical marijuana for dispensaries. Bob Winnicki, president of the lab, said the DEA issued a subpoena requesting that it turn over customer and patient records from the past six months.
Winnicki said he wasn’t charged with a crime, but agents seized about $10,000 worth of marijuana, some of which was going to be made into capsules for people with multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease.
Winnicki said his operation isn’t a dispensary, but rather a lab that tests marijuana for mold, fungus and pesticides, and tests the effectiveness of different strains of marijuana for treating various ailments for dispensaries and patients. He said he applied for a DEA license back in October to use standards needed to test the marijuana, but didn’t hear from them until Wednesday.
Though the circumstances involved are still unclear, there is no doubt that federal law enforcement agents have bigger fish to fry. While this company was trying to ensure that medical marijuana—the use of which has been sanctioned by the Obama administration—is safe for patients, Mexican drug cartels are operating in 230 cities across the country.
If the DEA truly cares about public safety, this is the last place they should be spending their time—and a single dollar spent on any kind of prosecution of these individuals would be one of the most egregious misuses of government resources imaginable.
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Obama
I thought the Obama justice department wasn't going to do raids like this any more. I guess that was just another in a long list of his lies.
Follow the motive
After reading this I scratched my head for a while.
Why would the DEA suddenly foist themselves upon what seems like the least likely target for a raid ?
Maybe the pharmaceutical industry finally said, that's enough!!
We want our share, and this is where it starts.
Measuring the potency of THC and putting it into pill/capsule form is the first step towards the creation of quantifiable MMJ dosages, this sets it apart from just, " smoking some weed."
Prior to the abolition of cannabis , practically every pharmacy had tincture of cannabis on their shelves. It was one of the most widely used remedies for pain.
Maybe this is the beginning of the end for this burgeoning cottage industry.
Only time will tell
Without the complaint that caused this raid to be done,we don't know why they were even raided. The laboratory,is of course,saying they have done nothing wrong ,and the DEA ,is of course saying nothing at all.
When you have a federally funded law enforcement agency,that is required by congress to lie,buy false studies showing harm,and skew statistics showing success,where there is none,what do you believe when they do say something.
When our congress enacted the mandate that a federal agency is required to do anything necessary to keep all schedule 1 drugs from being legalized,they screwed the pooch.
Of course,the only schedule 1 drug trying to be legitimized is the only schedule 1 drug that has never killed anyone from an overdose,has a lower addiction level than any of the other schedule 1 drug or even caffeine and has more medicine in it than any other plant on the planet.