Now Obamas Crew Going After Advertisers

[BrnCow]

More Fun and Games Chasing Pot as the World Flies By...

http://reason.com/blog/2011/10/12/you-cant-say-that-on-tv-us-att


Wonder what HT will say about this?

 

[THCphd420]

Absolutly shocking how far reaching this is.

btw u should post the actual article, alot of ic members dont feel comfortable clicking external links.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy, whose district includes Imperial and San Diego counties, said marijuana advertising is the next area she's "going to be moving onto as part of the enforcement efforts in Southern California." Duffy said she could not speak for the three other U.S. attorneys covering the state, but noted their efforts have been coordinated so far.

This looks like state, not federal initiative.

Duffy has apparently taken that as a license to go after publishers as well:

Duffy said she believes the law gives her the right to prosecute newspaper publishers or TV station owners.


"If I own a newspaper ... or I own a TV station, and I'm going to take in your money to place these ads, I'm the person who is placing these ads," Duffy said. "I am willing to read (the law) expansively and if a court wants to more narrowly define it, that would be up to the court."​

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Sounds like Duffy is interpreting law, not necessarily receiving federal directive.

... Duffy allows that the law that legalized medical marijuana had "good intentions." But those good intensions, she tells California Watch, "have almost completely been taken over by people who are trying to use that permission law to get rich, to distribute marijuana and traffic drugs to people who aren't sick, to our youth and to people who are using drugs on a recreational basis."

Does this mean Duffy wouldn't go after non-profits? Sounds like making bank is the onus of her actions.

 

[megayields]

whoah...thats pretty F'd up!

 

[ogenko]

traffic drugs to people who aren't sick, to our youth and to people who are using drugs on a recreational basis.

"the government" hates competition

another reason i support Ron Paul =)

 

[DuskrayTroubador]

This is absolutely ridiculous that in her mind she has nothing better to do than try to squash marijuana use and industry. It is just so frustrating that the "educated" "respected" and "successful" people in society are just so damn mind numbingly ignorant to the uses and benefits of marijuana and hemp. Like what the fuck?

Just imagine if all this drug war money was put into education or other areas of law enforcement. They fly fucking helicopters day and night with FLIR technology and send heavily armed task forces through the forests of California yet our response to armed robberies is taking a description of the suspect on a notepad and then going to get coffee and donuts. Maybe review the security tape the next day, if there is one.

 

[dank.frank]

How sad...we must remove all fascists from every level of government to win this war...


dank.Frank

 

[COOKIE MONSTER]

So basically if your one of those "god hates fags" christian groups or some scumbag neo-nazi group you can print whole news papers of hate material/racist bullshit.

But you cant advertise a dispencery or weed related stuff, you Americans in med states need to tell the Govt. to fuck off and mind their own business.

 

[budbasket]

dozens of ads for escorts, blatant prostitution, but god forbid the evil weed is actually gaining acceptance and must be banished from our society

 

[Mr. Bongjangles]

This stupid bitch must not have Google....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44_Liquormart,_Inc._v._Rhode_Island

"In 44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island (1996) the Court held states cannot use the Twenty-first Amendment to abridge freedom of speech protections under the First Amendment. Rhode Island imposed a law that prohibited advertisements that disclosed the retail prices of alcoholic beverages sold to the public. In declaring the law unconstitutional, the Court reiterated that "although the Twenty-first Amendment limits the effect of the Dormant Commerce Clause on a State's regulatory power over the delivery or use of intoxicating beverages within its borders, the Amendment does not license the States to ignore their obligations under other provisions of the Constitution."

Furthermore...

"In the federal law, an exception is made for ads that advocate the use of illegal drugs but don't explicitly offer them for sale or distribution. Newspapers, Panzer said, could argue that they have a right under the First Amendment to run the ads, and any "prior restraint" before publication is itself illegal."

Hopefully one of these publishers will call their bluff and ride this one to its conclusion in court, cause its a wildly strong First Amendment case.

 

[OjoRojo420]

No hope...

Obviously she went FULL RETARD!:

Downey: "Everybody knows you never do a full retard."

Stiller: "What do you mean?"

Downey: "Check it out. Dustin Hoffman, 'Rain Man,' look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Count toothpicks to your cards. Autistic, sure. Not retarded. You know Tom Hanks, 'Forrest Gump.' Slow, yes. Retarded, maybe. Braces on his legs. But he charmed the pants off Nixon and won a ping-pong competition. That ain't retarded. You went full retard, man. Never go full retard."

Ojo

 

[supermanlives]

well the reader is full of ads. their gonna be busy

 

[resinryder]

SEIG HIEL!!! Just practicing my seig hiels for future use.

 

[crazybear]

The government can't track all the weapon's that were put into the hands of mexican mafia, but they sure can keep the drug war alive not gonna change until we fight for change in Washington!
Reschedule the PLANT & get off our asses & quit giving drugs to kids to make them mindless zombie's & saying cannabis is the root of all evil!

 

[Yes4Prop215]

yea this is absolutely mind-fucking....this dumb bitch has nothing better to do than waste money going after things that GENERATE SMALL BUSINESS MONEY! the article even says itself, without the extra revenue from MMJ advertisements they would have to lay off writers and staff...

MMJ is so crucial to many aspects of local economies....

i guess all the cocaine and human trafficking going on in San Diego keeps the local governments paid pretty good, so they get bored and attack MMJ.....

 

[Jenn]

Hmmm I really thought Cali was going to get marijuana legalized but with the way everything is headed now its not looking so good anywhere....

- Jenn

 

[Captain Ginyu]

Now don't you growin folks who never registered feel a little a little bit relieved, maybe just a little?

 

[pearlemae]

Next she'll be after Bill Mahr for saying he smokes on his TV show. The thought police are alive and well in Amerika. Gotta vote these assholes out.

 

[resinryder]

Next she'll be after Bill Mahr for saying he smokes on his TV show. The thought police are alive and well in Amerika. Gotta vote these assholes out.

Naw won't happen. Mahr is a big supporter and donor to Obama. It's like having a hall pass.

 

[wiesseweed]

Next she'll be after Bill Mahr for saying he smokes on his TV show. The thought police are alive and well in Amerika. Gotta vote these assholes out.

hell ya