I'm not defending anything! We get it, TheMan. You hate Obama, along with every other "progressive/liberal" to ever walk the earth. It's all the fault of the evil pinko commies. I think it's sickening that people like the Green family have their daughter taken away from them. I think it's disgusting that police manipulate numbers and bust an otherwise compliant grow over a few ounces just to reap the forfeiture windfall. BUT, there are also clear cut cases of abuse that you don't seem to be able to distinguish between. It's ridiculous to pretend that a group of 27 people, growing hundreds of pounds of weed should be afforded the same protections under THIS law that a cancer patient growing for himself should. One is a for-profit enterprise who's only objective is to get rich, and the other is a terminally ill person trying to save his life. Not everything is as black and white as you're trying to portray it here. If you don't like the law, then work towards changing it. But as it stands this law was passed by the people of this state for ill people who can benefit from the use of marijuana. It was never intended to be cover for some group of people, or some corporation to profit from.
Anyone who doesn't hate Obama at this point probably is unaware of the things he's stood for. That's all I can assume. His position that the executive can decide who lives or dies is particularly disturbing. Especially given the legal argument he used for it - that due process and judicial process aren't the same thing and the constitution doesn't guarantee the latter. The extension of that argument is that the executive can do anything it pleases to it's citizens.
There's another word for this - Dictatorship. The only thing in the way is the purse strings, but if you have a pliable and sufficiently stupid enforcement arm that's not a problem (Hey Congresman, you're a terrorist for not voting yes, oh by the way the NSA was spying on you and has all your dirty laundry too, do whatever the fuck I say).
Enforcement arms become especially vulnerable to following obviously horrible and illegal orders if things are hard economically and you can guarantee they have food in their stomach and a roof over their head - there's a reason dictatorships tend to form in turmoil.
Regardless of the President's beliefs, most of the things he believes in are blatantly illegal and they were made that way by the constitution to avoid complete tyranny.
As far as black and white portrayal, I suggest looking into the mirror. Profits aren't evil and neither is working to provide medicine for people. 2400 a unit in the United States is pretty cheap last I checked. Units go for 1000 around here. Black market, people trying to make a living (because it's difficult to make a living doing other things these days, have fun finding a job) .
Yet still, supply and demand brings the price way down. Large scale producers such as the above do just that. Bring prices down, whether they want to or not. And this is good for patients (and all really), especially those who can't grow themselves for whatever reason.
You're sitting here acting like it's wrong to want to live comfortably. To not have to stress about paying bills and/or unforeseen disasters because you have the cash in the bank to deal with them. And that requires quite a bit of cash these days. Ever busted all your front teeth? Hello about 20-30 dollars later for a long term solution. Trust me, I know.
The reality is we should all be working about 1 day a week at this point with our current productivity levels. Except for some funny reason it hasn't worked out like that.
Could it be the ponzi scheme monetary system, government corporatism that's been going on for years funneling your tax dollars to guys like "Tax me harder" Buffet in sweet heart deals all the while making the tax code so incomprehensible and ridiculous that only a small number of people know all the loop holes - the very same people who wrote it of course - and wind up paying no taxes at all? Nah, it couldn't be that.
By the way, mathematical certainty here - no debating the point -, those who receive new dollars first in a fiat monetary system will also always receive the benefit of lower prices on the initial infusion of cash, very largely distorting the supply and demand curve with fraudulently created funds courtesy a system designed from the word jump to fuck you up your asshole.
All the while you are intended to fight over the ridiculous left vs right paradigm when the real fight is freedom vs authoritarianism. Because both the left and right wingers in the US government largely want authoritarian government and authoritarian governments always end up with an elite few ruling over the rest regardless of whatever they decide to call it.
