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Medical Marijuana and the DEA
Phillip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Physician and Toxicologist
08-11-07|Salem-News.com|Dr. Phil Leveque

I guess I’m just getting old (eighth decade). I just cannot understand the recent raids by Drug Enforcement Agency bozos on sick, debilitated medical marijuana patients. I suppose that if the U.S. Government pays these bozos enough, they will do anything they are ordered to, even against sick patients.

One of the worst I heard about was raiding and taking the medical marijuana crop of a bed-bound quadriplegic with the parting sneer, "We could take your car and house, too, if we wanted to."

The recent raid on Don Dupay, a former Portland, Oregon detective who is very sick with Hepatitis C and on a medical disability pension, stretches understanding. He was growing legally for forty other patients, which is a noble act considering the DEA "goon squads."

I will presume these goons are so brainwashed and regimented that they will just obey orders. The really weird aspect is that in California there are 160 legal dispensaries where 300,000 medical marijuana patients can buy their medicine.

THE DEA IS TRYING TO STOP THIS. What birdbrain hallucinated this? In Oregon there are about 15 thousand patients and 7 thousand caretaker/growers; the DEA is trying to stop this. Am I hallucinating? They must be!

British Columbia grows about 20 billion dollars worth of marijuana per year. California is about the same. Oregon, a smaller state, grows about one billion dollars worth.

Even the U.S. Government estimates 70 million people have tried marijuana and as many as 10 million use it regularly. I won’t call this strange; I’ll call it schizophrenic. Who is running this insanity? Whoever it is, they need to burn a little weed and chill out. PLEASE.

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Buzzby

Dr. Leveque really doesn't get it. DEA agents don't have moral qualms about screwing around the lives of sick people. Their indoctrination is that they are soldiers in a "holy war" against The Devil's Weed. Soldiers are conditioned to dehumanize the "enemy" so that they can do to him what no decent human being would do to another.

To them it's a big game and I'm sure there are lots of high-fives in the locker room after they're done with a day of "protecting us" from our "perverted desire" not to suffer in pain. If you get a chance, watch "In Pot We Trust". It's worth it just for the interviews with the DEA agents who are ripping out a pot field.

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Broliette

I thought of In Pot We Trust also. In particular the agent they follow the most with the long hair that says something like, I can be a hippie and a DEA agent at the same time...

IMO, DEA agents such as him or ones that say "We could take your car and house, too, if we wanted to." actually think they are doing the right thing. They almost seem "brainwashed" while doing their actions. They probably feel they are making a difference! Well, they are, from their perspective.

I never wish anything bad or negative on anyone; but I would be curious to know how one of those agents might feel if their close friend, family member, or even themselves had an illness to which medical marijuana was the best source of relief.

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