Walmart Fires Cancer Patient for Legally Using Medical Marijuana

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As of October 2009 the Obama Administration is NOT seeking to arrest medical marijuana users in states that authorize it. It was big news 6 months ago. So, if you have a medical marijuana license you CANNOT be arrested, tried, etc. by federal authorities in that state..... about time.

The Department of Justice released new guidelines addressing the enforcement of marijuana laws and medical marijuana. The guidelines reverse federal policy under the Bush administration by instructing federal officers not to go after marijuana users or suppliers who comply with their states' medical marijuana laws.

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Its sad really that we cant see we are just like all religious zealots who ever lived. We will kill for breaking the law, torture (we call it caged rehibilitation though), judge, condemn, falsely accuse (especially for political gain and stature) ect... all under a blanket of so called justice. So, we are just replacing Gods law for our own. However, our law submits to money and power.

I agree. This guy deserves to be fired, he is clearly an asshole employee because he never would have lasted 5 years at wal mart, with a terminal illness, if he wasnt... right?

I hope one day we all see our own hypocrisy, only then will there be real good change. Hell, the judge, and the legislators (who passed the "weed law") are probably just as guilty. But how can that be when they are above the law? Surely no republican anti gay senator is actually a closet homosexual right? So, hypocrisy is against Gods law, but not against mans? I havent heard of anyone going to jail for being a hypocrite, but im also not a lawyer.

Again, just sad, that we as an advanced society cant see that punishing this guy by taking his job, his benefits, and possibly just a little dignity, just for using a proven medicine for his terminal cancer is not right. So, we are just like the zealots in that the law cannot be broken... not even with mercy and understanding. So sad.

Now most likely the ones who respond against this post and for the law will not hear their own hypocrisy, as it is buried in a very dark place, so that they do not have to judge themselves in the same way they judge others, but, they will be classed as the ones with integrity, who cannot do wrong, who obey the law at all times ect... just like the Pharisees of Jesus' time. Wake up people... please.

You think all these laws are doing us good? Just wait till you fall under one of them, especially when you had no idea you were. I had no idea that true freedom would be girded so tightly... unless... maybe we arent as free as we like to think?

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There is a reason that every Applebee's restaurant purposely builds right in front of a Walmart.

Very interesting observation. The local Applebee's is indeed right across the road from Wal-Mart.

Our local Applebees is right in front of Target.

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There is a reason that every Applebee's restaurant purposely builds right in front of a Walmart.

Very interesting observation. The local Applebee's is indeed right across the road from Wal-Mart.

Our local Applebees is right in front of Target.

Ours is no where close to either.

The only Applebees I frequent is no where close to any shops (close to hotels in WY)

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Hsve you every heard of Dynastar/Lange? We a??ll shop at walmart, why the fuck not? They save me a buck, I save them a buck. PERIOD

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I steal from Walmart.

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As of October 2009 the Obama Administration is NOT seeking to arrest medical marijuana users in states that authorize it. It was big news 6 months ago. So, if you have a medical marijuana license you CANNOT be arrested, tried, etc. by federal authorities in that state..... about time.

"Not seeking" is a WHOLE lot different than "CANNOT". As long as the laws are on the books, they can still nail you, so don't go blowing pot smoke in the cops' face just yet.

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As of October 2009 the Obama Administration is NOT seeking to arrest medical marijuana users in states that authorize it. It was big news 6 months ago. So, if you have a medical marijuana license you CANNOT be arrested, tried, etc. by federal authorities in that state..... about time.

"Not seeking" is a WHOLE lot different than "CANNOT". As long as the laws are on the books, they can still nail you, so don't go blowing pot smoke in the cops' face just yet.

That's exactly what I was about to point out. Saying that they won't is very different than actually repealing the laws that allow them to do so. Doing that would require that they actually cede some of their power, which isn't going to happen anytime soon with the people currently in Washington.

If (when) the feds decide that they're going to go after someone despite their prior promises, I'd really like to see the state(s) intervene and protect the accused from federal action, but I doubt any governor would take such a political risk.

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I believe that the feds said they would not go after MMJ users/suppliers as long as they were within the laws of their state.

meaning if you're outside the state laws, as in if you have more than an ounce on your person (too much as far as Colorado is concerned), you are in the hands of the federal fuz and the state would have no motivation to try and protect you because you were breaking state law.

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I believe that the feds said they would not go after MMJ users/suppliers as long as they were within the laws of their state.

meaning if you're outside the state laws, as in if you have more than an ounce on your person (too much as far as Colorado is concerned), you are in the hands of the federal fuz and the state would have no motivation to try and protect you because you were breaking state law.

Of course not, but because you were breaking state law, the feds shouldn't be involved anyway.