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Feds Bust Former Portland Police Detective for Medical Marijuana
Tim King Salem-News.com
The people of Oregon passed medical marijuana legislation that is now regarded as the most conservative program in the nation, but it is in danger as the federal government does what they can to trample on state's rights.
(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The Portland Tribune's article Monday on the federal government's persistent hassling of a medical marijuana patient in Oregon, underscores the Bush administration's failure to value state's rights, and shows how they in fact do everything possible in some cases to eliminate them.
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None of it sits well with 71-year old Don DuPay, a retired Portland Police detective with a long, successful law enforcement career under his belt. He suffers from degenerative hip disease and hepatitis C, so he grows medicine for himself and for sick people within Oregon's legal Medical Marijuana program.
Regardless of the fact that medical marijuana is legal under Oregon state law, DuPay says DEA investigators threatened to arrest him if he did not cooperate with their federal marijuana investigation.
The former Portland police detective was hot under the collar in his reaction toward a DEA agent that threatened him. DuPay spent his life as a police officer arresting people for actual crimes. He comes from a world different than today's DEA agents with questionable jurisdictional issues.
“I was probably carrying a homicide detective badge before this punk was born,” he said, steaming at the federal agent heading the investigation. "I said, ‘As far as I’m concerned, you’re a baldheaded punk.’"
On June 14th federal agents seized growing equipment, guns, surveillance cameras, and 135 plants from his property, and also raided four smaller grows that he maintains elsewhere.
Defiant and angry, DuPay's position is online with thousands of other Oregonians like Dr. Phil Leveque of Molalla, who says the only reason marijuana remains illegal is because big money organizations like the pharmaceutical groups, the oil and petroleum industries, and liquor and alcohol manufacturers fear losing money to a harmless herb that grows naturally.
"Marijuana can treat more ailments than any other single thing like it; it is not addictive, that is a bunch of garbage. It brings people relief from pain and suffering," commented Dr. Leveque.
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Now the Bush government's troops in suits are in our state and they are in our neighboring states, and they are here to jail Oregonians and demonstrate that as the president talks out of two sides of his mouth over state's rights, his true intentions are anything but what he said they were.
Representing the DEA, Spokesman Bernie Hobson stated the agency's position to the Tribune, "From a federal standpoint, there is no such thing as medical marijuana."
Tim King Salem-News.com
The people of Oregon passed medical marijuana legislation that is now regarded as the most conservative program in the nation, but it is in danger as the federal government does what they can to trample on state's rights.
(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The Portland Tribune's article Monday on the federal government's persistent hassling of a medical marijuana patient in Oregon, underscores the Bush administration's failure to value state's rights, and shows how they in fact do everything possible in some cases to eliminate them.
...
None of it sits well with 71-year old Don DuPay, a retired Portland Police detective with a long, successful law enforcement career under his belt. He suffers from degenerative hip disease and hepatitis C, so he grows medicine for himself and for sick people within Oregon's legal Medical Marijuana program.
Regardless of the fact that medical marijuana is legal under Oregon state law, DuPay says DEA investigators threatened to arrest him if he did not cooperate with their federal marijuana investigation.
The former Portland police detective was hot under the collar in his reaction toward a DEA agent that threatened him. DuPay spent his life as a police officer arresting people for actual crimes. He comes from a world different than today's DEA agents with questionable jurisdictional issues.
“I was probably carrying a homicide detective badge before this punk was born,” he said, steaming at the federal agent heading the investigation. "I said, ‘As far as I’m concerned, you’re a baldheaded punk.’"
On June 14th federal agents seized growing equipment, guns, surveillance cameras, and 135 plants from his property, and also raided four smaller grows that he maintains elsewhere.
Defiant and angry, DuPay's position is online with thousands of other Oregonians like Dr. Phil Leveque of Molalla, who says the only reason marijuana remains illegal is because big money organizations like the pharmaceutical groups, the oil and petroleum industries, and liquor and alcohol manufacturers fear losing money to a harmless herb that grows naturally.
"Marijuana can treat more ailments than any other single thing like it; it is not addictive, that is a bunch of garbage. It brings people relief from pain and suffering," commented Dr. Leveque.
...
Now the Bush government's troops in suits are in our state and they are in our neighboring states, and they are here to jail Oregonians and demonstrate that as the president talks out of two sides of his mouth over state's rights, his true intentions are anything but what he said they were.
Representing the DEA, Spokesman Bernie Hobson stated the agency's position to the Tribune, "From a federal standpoint, there is no such thing as medical marijuana."
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/a...ogues_8707.php
Maybe some day the cops(current and former) will start protecting themselves from the feds, via force if necessary. One can hope.
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