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Oaksterdam University founder Richard Lee, right center, marches with other cannabis supporters at a 420 day rally in front of the Federal Building in downtown Oakland, Calif. on Friday, April 20, 2012.
Oakland 4/20: “Obama, You’re Alienating Your Base” | Drug War Chronicle
4/20 is supposed to be a day of cannabis celebration, but in Oakland Friday it was a day of protest and demonstration. Angered by the ongoing federal crackdown on medical marijuana distribution and shocked and infuriated by the April 2 raids on Oaksterdam University and associated businesses, protestors gathered outside the federal building in downtown Oakland to denounce the administration before marching to President Obama’s Northern California campaign headquarters to deliver a letter demanding the administration cease and desist.
[…] it’s not just marijuana advocates who are angry. “What happened here two weeks ago with the raid of Oaksterdam was an attack on our local and our members,” said Matt Witemyre, special project union representative for UFCW Local 5, which represents Northern California dispensary workers. “We’re here to register our displeasure with the administration’s actions and we’re stopping by campaign headquarters to let them know we do not support these policies. We’re here in solidarity with our brothers and sisters. They had good jobs and good benefits, and in the midst of the worst economic crisis in the country in decades, the administration is destroying these jobs. It makes no sense,” he fumed.
[…] ”What advantages do we derive from continuing this failed policy of prohibition?” asked [Richard Lee’s replacement as head of Oaksterdam, Dale Sky] Jones. “They’re committing robbery with a badge, empowering terrorists and cartels, and denying a proven medicine to patients in the guise of keeping it from our kids. We ended the first failed Prohibition. We can do it again, President Obama. We must repeal prohibition,” she insisted.
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Oaksterdam University founder Richard Lee, right center, marches with other cannabis supporters at a 420 day rally in front of the Federal Building in downtown Oakland, Calif. on Friday, April 20, 2012.
Oakland 4/20: “Obama, You’re Alienating Your Base” | Drug War Chronicle
4/20 is supposed to be a day of cannabis celebration, but in Oakland Friday it was a day of protest and demonstration. Angered by the ongoing federal crackdown on medical marijuana distribution and shocked and infuriated by the April 2 raids on Oaksterdam University and associated businesses, protestors gathered outside the federal building in downtown Oakland to denounce the administration before marching to President Obama’s Northern California campaign headquarters to deliver a letter demanding the administration cease and desist.
[…] it’s not just marijuana advocates who are angry. “What happened here two weeks ago with the raid of Oaksterdam was an attack on our local and our members,” said Matt Witemyre, special project union representative for UFCW Local 5, which represents Northern California dispensary workers. “We’re here to register our displeasure with the administration’s actions and we’re stopping by campaign headquarters to let them know we do not support these policies. We’re here in solidarity with our brothers and sisters. They had good jobs and good benefits, and in the midst of the worst economic crisis in the country in decades, the administration is destroying these jobs. It makes no sense,” he fumed.
[…] ”What advantages do we derive from continuing this failed policy of prohibition?” asked [Richard Lee’s replacement as head of Oaksterdam, Dale Sky] Jones. “They’re committing robbery with a badge, empowering terrorists and cartels, and denying a proven medicine to patients in the guise of keeping it from our kids. We ended the first failed Prohibition. We can do it again, President Obama. We must repeal prohibition,” she insisted.
