Are You As ‘Fed’ Up As Me With Federal Marijuana Policies?

​Danny Kushlick, head of external affairs at Transform, the drug policy foundation that has consultative status with the U.N., said “What we have here is the greatest collection thus far of ex-presidents and prime ministers calling very clearly for decriminalization and experiments with legal regulation.

“It will be a watershed moment,” Kushlick said.

As of Wednesday, the pollsters including Nate Silver say Obama has about 46 percent of Americans voting for him. And get this: He has 46 percent of Americans voting against him. This will be an election, as the way it’s been for the last few election cycles, in which there’s a run for independents. You know, those crazy undecided voters who usually live in a retirement community in Florida or are slugging slag in Ohio, who by default usually decide our elections for us.

Even with Mitt “Ken Plastic-Genitalia” Romney, Sarah “I’ll Show The Kids But Not The Husband” Palin, Tim “Wake Me Up When I’m Over” Pawlenty, and the Besty Ross of the Tea Party sampler, Michelle Bachmann running, President Obama doesn’t have a lock on this race if the economy doesn’t start handing out some new jobs soon.

​So where is our President who had the intestinal fortitude to stand up and say confidently to the lamestream media when asked, “Of course I inhaled! That’s was the point!”?

Why is President Obama, who seemingly had a real understanding of the cannabis culture, allowing the Feds to run roughshod with “Operation Shake and Bake” (my terms), over the rights of the medical marijuana community and businesses in America?

Why are world leaders and Richard Branson (I bet he’s bringing the herb) meeting, discussing a changing globe and the need to change with it, including statements made from our President for the need to transform?

And why is our President somewhere in another universe allowing the Feds to create a State of Fear when it comes to marijuana?

In the last 10 days, the Feds have amped up their behind-the-scenes attacks on the medical marijuana community throughout the states. Starting with financial institutions, the Feds pressed for audits of banks that do business with dispensaries and the like. Then there were the closing and limiting of dispensaries up and down the State of California. Credit card company American Express canceled its service in dispensaries.

​In Arizona, their U.S. Attorney, not to be left out by his colleagues in other states, wrote a “you-better-watch-out” letter warning the fledgeling medical marijuana industry that if you open your doors, we’re going to be there to shut you down, or worse.

Even their wacky, “Arizona’s higher than Chong” Gov. Janny Brewer is trying to rescind Proposition 203, voted on and passed by the people because… she doesn’t like it.

Even as a few doors of opportunity and progress open for medical marijuana patients and the industry, more and more activists are fighting the Drug War on two fronts: locally and federally.

It might be time for us who are trying to make a change, not to go backwards, but to say — as most oppressed groups eventually reach — “We’ve had enough. We’re Fed up!”

Then the question persists, “Whose side are the Feds really on?”

In the last weeks my people (don’t ask) have found connections between Big Pharma owning fields and gardens full of raging cannabis all over America. They’re gearing up like other outlaws for the possible Green Rush profits coming their way.

Meanwhile, medical marijuana activists, patients, new dispensary owners stand in lines, fill out forms for the latest regulations that change daily, and jump through the state’s hoops in order to move ahead.

​Big Pharma has the cooperation of the Feds to look the other way when they grow. Plus, I’m guessing when Bristol-Myers mines the earth for a garden, they’re planting more than 99 plants at a time.