Today’s raid of Oaksterdam University and museum by federal agents, the U.S. Marshall and the Drug Enforcement Administration should come as no surprise to anyone. In fact, many have known, it’s been a long time coming, because under Federal law, possession, cultivation and sale of marijuana is illegal.
Richard Lee, founder of Okasterdam and financier for a large part of California Proposition 19, has been pushing a duplicitous drug legalization agenda and it’s about time someone held him accountable.
First, he made the cultivation of marijuana for medicinal purposes, under the guise of Proposition 215, into populist movement of provocateurs, who for the most part could care less how marijuana legalization efforts affect our society. Then, Lee bankrolled the failed ballot measure Proposition 19, which asked voters to legalize pot for recreational use, in violation of federal law.
It doesn’t take an expert on drug policy to recognize, that what people call medical marijuana today, is not really a product mostly sold to those who have “medical necessity.” Instead, those who want to get high are hiding behind the sick, so they can raid the “medicine cabinet”, pretending they are patients, when in fact they have no serious medical necessity at all. I know it, they know it, we all know it; today’s medical marijuana is a sham and we would be better off isolating the truly ill, of which according to statistics there are few, and abandon the idea of “medical marijuana” once and for all.