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CU Boulder has been the location for the 4/20 right to use Cannabis protests for years and now they want to violate our Constitutionally protected Rights.
This is a quote pulled from the Denver Post yesterday: (link)
Those not affiliated with CU-Boulder will not be permitted on campus and face tickets for trespassing. Those cited for trespassing face punishment of up to six months in jail and a $750 fine. District Attorney Stan Garnett has discussed April 20 enforcement operations with CU Police officials. His office will handle the prosecution of those who receive tickets. “As always, healing the District Attorney’s Office will work to support the efforts of the CU Police Department,” Garnett said.”
This is only weeks after Boulder D.A Stan Garnett sent U.S. Attorney John Walsh a letter that sent a very different and encouraging message. In the letter, Garnett recommended law enforcement focus instead on “terrorism, serious economic crime, organized crime and serious drug dealing (involving significant amounts of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine).”
The threats are now directed back at We The People for walking on CU Boulder’s campus, an activity the public has participated in since the campus opened as a public institution in 1877. This is a direct attack on our Rights and must be confronted with truth and education.
It is strange how law enforcement has stepped up their threats and how they refuse to protect the will of the people, especially as we head towards November’s elections and a vote to possibly legalize Cannabis in Colorado. This is a free speech issue and 420 is a protest expressing the problems with Cannabis prohibition.
Stan Garnett may be doing his job and we must do ours, this is still a movement and that movement requires WE THE PEOPLE to stand up and protest against what is inherently wrong and stand up for that which is in our best interests.
America is amazing because we have the right to express our individual beliefs in regards to our health, religion and in regards to using Cannabis as we choose, among so many other areas. Remove the government from our bodies and lifestyles!
Stan Garnett sent me a Facebook message, “The issues with 4/20 are public safety/public order issues, not use of marijuana issues. I think the whole 4/20 event is counterproductive to the legalization effort, but we will treat whatever tickets we get individually and on a case by case basis.”
This is not about my personal opinion of the legalization effort, it is about the right of WE THE PEOPLE to protest. I agree that public safety is a very important issue and should be handled as such. These include simple services such as access to bathrooms and first aid as well as peace officers stationed in places where people can get help if they need it, among other things. In past years of the 420 protest, there have been few safety/public order issues and the closure is unwarranted.
In fact, the response of CU Police could result in a riot. With a potential attendance of over 15,000 people and the probability that police will violate people’s Rights, the likelihood of problems is increased substantially.
There are quite a few problems with what CU Police are threatening to do. Many people walk through CU Boulder as it is right in the middle of the city, do they are they going to be given tickets for trespassing? Sounds like unfair treatment and use of a law.
At this point, if you get a ticket, take it to court and fight it. Unfortunately this will cost the city quite a bit of money either way. Keep in mind we have a weak economy and the city will do what they can to take more from you. One person said that this is another way to extort more money from the public.
Stan Garnett did respond to my request for an interview and we are aiming to meet this week. I plan to address the communication with John Walsh as well as the situation that is being created by the 420 events in Boulder. I am hoping a positive relationship, between the city and the people, can result from this years protest.
CU Boulder should retract this IMMEDIATELY, before the police create a situation where a riot may start. Try working with us as people and things will get better instead of worse. Government control is too totalitarian at this time and WE THE PEOPLE must STAND UP to protect our CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS!
From what I understand, the government is not allowed to discriminate against activities due to the controversial content of the message. If we demonstrate that similar events have been allowed in the past, in which their was city involvement, that can be used as precedence, and that the government is involved in selective enforcement.
Please write letters NOW to the media demanding a retraction of the 420 articles and that a CORRECTION is printed saying this is a CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED PROTEST!
As of April 11th, sales 2012 HB12-1099 is taking root in Colorado. This will allow a study of non-drug hemp as a phytoremediator for soil, air and water. Yesterday the Bill passed the final vote in the Appropriations Committee with a 10-3 vote, COW as amended. The amendment motion passed without objection.
This was a long germination period since the Hemp Bill passed the House Local Government committee on February 13th, 2012, where it was passed with a unanimous vote of 11-0.
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GOV. GARY JOHNSON CALLS FEDERAL RAID ON MARIJUANA ADVOCATE’S HOME AN “OUTRAGE”
Calls Obama Crack-Down Harrassment
April 3, ampoule DC – Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, seeking the Libertarian Presidential nomination, today assailed the Obama Administration for ” a systematic crack-down on medical marijuana as allowed by state law”. Johnson said the Obama Administration’s action was contrary to the President’s assurances on the issue in 2008 and a memo released by his Justice Department two years ago.
Responding to searches conducted Monday by federal agents of the home and business of a long-time Oakland, CA, marijuana legalization advocate, Johnson called on the Obama Administration to “find better things to do with our tax dollars than raiding Richard Lee’s home in a selective enforcement of bad law.”
Monday morning, federal agents executed search warrants at the home of Richard Lee, a well-known advocate for marijuana legalization in California, and at an Oakland cannabis industry trade school Lee founded. The school, as well as Lee’s other medical marijuana businesses, are operated in accordance with California law and local ordinances. Monday’s searches appear to be part of an on-going effort by the government to assert federal enforcement against California’s medical marijuana laws.
Johnson, a vocal advocate for drug law reform, said, “It defies belief that, at the very same time that President Obama is standing in the Rose Garden with the President of Mexico talking about efforts to reduce drug-related violence, his federal agents are harassing a respected advocate for sensible drug law reform by raiding his home and business and ‘detaining’ him for questioning. Richard Lee isn’t the problem. Failed marijuana prohibition is the problem, and making an ‘example’ of a citizen who is operating within state and local law is not only offensive, but a massive waste of law enforcement time and money.
“It wasn’t enough to send in the DEA and the U.S. Marshals. They felt compelled to send the Internal Revenue Service in as well. The voters of California have made it clear that they regard medical marijuana, regulated and dispensed in a safe manner, to be acceptable in their communities. Do the Feds not have more pressing responsibilities than to persecute those, like Richard Lee, who are simply trying to provide a service those communities have clearly said they want?
“I would like to think America is not a place where the federal police come knocking on the doors of legitimate businesses and private homes just to ‘enforce’ laws that make no sense and to shut down private enterprises that are, in fact, reducing harm and offering an alternative to the dangers of the illegal drug trade.”
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For more information regarding Governor Johnson, please visit www.garyjohnson2012.com.
About Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson: Gary Johnson, two-term Governor of New Mexico from 1994-2002, has been a consistent and outspoken advocate for limited, efficient government and personal liberty.
We spoke with Rico Colibri and Crystal Guess about Initiative 70 and here is what we talked about:
“I can see no legitimate basis in this judicial district to focus the resources of the United States government on the medical marijuana dispensaries that are otherwise compliant with Colorado law or local regulation.”
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Interview with Gary Johnson
Cannabis Health News Magazine presents an interview presidential candidate Gary Johnson. We talk about medical Cannabis, sovaldi sale education and families.
Recorded 2/18/2012.
NJweedman, activists, enlightening the public to JURY NULLIFICATION, and signing his book “Public Enemy #420″. Filming everything, we are calling this a ROADAMENTARY (Road/Documentary) titled: ” 6 MORE WEEKS OF FREEDOM or NOT?”.
The State of New Jersey, NJ Gov Christopher Christie wage a “http://home.njweedman.com/node/17 -) This is a David vs Golitah story for the modern ages. ( Citizen vs Government )
THE PROPOSED ROUTE AND ITERNIARY will be posted on this website – www.njweedman.com -, but the plan is to leave Los Angeles on March 20th, – If you live near one of these cities and want to help, or contribute please link up. ( BTW – NJWeedman will not be traveling with marijuana, so everyday he hopes to link up with a supporter or two who will smoke him out as he passes thru – ” NO SWAG”)
ONCE NJWEEDMAN IS IN NEW JERSEY HE WILL FIND A LOCATION TO CAMP OUT IN HIS VAN – NEAR THE COURTHOUSE. ARE YOU A LICENCED DRIVER? NJWEEDMAN WILL NEED A DRIVER DAILY – TO DRIVE HIS WEEDMOBIL ONCE HE IS IN NEW JERSEY.
