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The IRS is now being used as a strong-arm
of the federal government in a desperate attempt
to shut down the medical marijuana industry.
Steve DeAngelo, owner of Harborside medical cannabis
dispensary and his attorney, Henry Wykoski,
sat down to discuss the attack that has been place upon his
business by Uncle Sam when they took Time 4 Hemp!
Also featured in this segment is Debra Busmeyer,
Communications Director for the New Mexico Health Department.
Below is the press release for this segment
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Monday's Are TAXING At Time 4 Hemp!
of the federal government in a desperate attempt
to shut down the medical marijuana industry.
Steve DeAngelo, owner of Harborside medical cannabis
dispensary and his attorney, Henry Wykoski,
sat down to discuss the attack that has been place upon his
business by Uncle Sam when they took Time 4 Hemp!
Also featured in this segment is Debra Busmeyer,
Communications Director for the New Mexico Health Department.
Below is the press release for this segment
.
Monday's Are TAXING At Time 4 Hemp!
For immediate release - 11/11/11
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Another federal agency, in a desperate attempt to prevent hemp from being a legal cash crop, has begun to strong-arm the closure of California’s medical marijuana industry. The IRS is now auditing dispensaries and is suddenly applying a section of the tax code, (280-E, designed to bring down drug lords) to filings from years gone by. In doing so, dispensaries such as the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana (MAMM) in Fairfax (owned by Lynette Shaw) and Harborside in Oakland (owned by Steve DeAngelo) are being handed 'PAST-DUE' bills of 2.5 million dollars with 45-days to pay-up or shut-down.
Kicking off a media blitz on 'Time 4 Hemp - LIVE!' 11/07/11, Steve DeAngelo and his lawyer, Henry Wykoski, discussed the lawsuits they filed against U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder, Drug Enforcement Administration head Michele Leonhart and each of the four federal prosecutors, including U.S. Atty. Andre Birotte Jr. in Los Angeles. On the program, DeAngelo stated; “federal prosecutors are not trying to clean up the regulated medical cannabis industry, they are trying to destroy it. Their real target is not criminal gangs, but rather the systems of licensing and regulation implemented by dozens of communities state-wide. This will destroy tens of thousands of jobs, and hundreds of millions of tax dollars in local, state and federal tax revenue. The federal government’s war on medical marijuana threatens to force patients to purchase their medicine from criminals, drug dealers, and violent gangs instead of from state-sanctioned, locally-regulated facilities that are safe and create decent jobs. California now has an entrenched cultivation and distribution network of medical cannabis that supplies approximately 1,000,000 patients and generates annual revenues between $1.5 billion and $4.5 billion, and annual sales taxes of $50 million to $100 million. Marijuana is California's number one cash crop, according to the federal government's estimates and is worth double the state's vegetable and grape crops combined -- or about $14 billion a year."
Another federal agency, in a desperate attempt to prevent hemp from being a legal cash crop, has begun to strong-arm the closure of California’s medical marijuana industry. The IRS is now auditing dispensaries and is suddenly applying a section of the tax code, (280-E, designed to bring down drug lords) to filings from years gone by. In doing so, dispensaries such as the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana (MAMM) in Fairfax (owned by Lynette Shaw) and Harborside in Oakland (owned by Steve DeAngelo) are being handed 'PAST-DUE' bills of 2.5 million dollars with 45-days to pay-up or shut-down.
Kicking off a media blitz on 'Time 4 Hemp - LIVE!' 11/07/11, Steve DeAngelo and his lawyer, Henry Wykoski, discussed the lawsuits they filed against U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder, Drug Enforcement Administration head Michele Leonhart and each of the four federal prosecutors, including U.S. Atty. Andre Birotte Jr. in Los Angeles. On the program, DeAngelo stated; “federal prosecutors are not trying to clean up the regulated medical cannabis industry, they are trying to destroy it. Their real target is not criminal gangs, but rather the systems of licensing and regulation implemented by dozens of communities state-wide. This will destroy tens of thousands of jobs, and hundreds of millions of tax dollars in local, state and federal tax revenue. The federal government’s war on medical marijuana threatens to force patients to purchase their medicine from criminals, drug dealers, and violent gangs instead of from state-sanctioned, locally-regulated facilities that are safe and create decent jobs. California now has an entrenched cultivation and distribution network of medical cannabis that supplies approximately 1,000,000 patients and generates annual revenues between $1.5 billion and $4.5 billion, and annual sales taxes of $50 million to $100 million. Marijuana is California's number one cash crop, according to the federal government's estimates and is worth double the state's vegetable and grape crops combined -- or about $14 billion a year."
DeAngelo also stated; "with the
state in the midst of an historic economic crisis, the move
towards regulating and taxing marijuana would generate much needed
revenue, restrict
access to only those over 21, end the environmental damage to public
lands from illicit crops, and improve public safety by redirecting law
enforcement efforts to more serious crimes. It would also resolve one
of the problems associated with marijuana are arrest, imprisonment,
and other penalties that accompany prohibition. More than 74,000
Californians were arrested for marijuana offenses in 2007, nearly 80
percent of them on misdemeanor charges. This costs $1 billion a year and
taxpayers are footing the bill, while black marketers control the
flourishing market. Ending prohibition would cause a sudden and
dramatic transference of wealth. Instead of Mexican Cartels developing a
trillion dollar underground economy, California would - over night -
transfer all that money into a controlled industry that generates
millions of jobs and a trillion dollar tax base to pay for schools,
better roads and salaries of state employees."
Henry Wykoski stated; "the rule
does not allow for the deduction of business expenses by persons
engaged in drug trafficking. The state law permitting the activity is
not being recognized by IRS agents and 280-E should not be
applied, dispensaries are NOT engaged in trafficking. They are engaged
in a legal activity
that benefits their patients. The federal government's threat to
prosecute dispensary owners and their landlords is in conflict with an
agreement that has already led a federal judge to dismiss one case on
the grounds that the government has said it would not use federal
resources against
medical marijuana patients who complied with state law. Federal
prosecutors are violating equal protection laws and states'
rights, and constitutional protections for in-state commerce. We are
talking about responsible citizens and corporations who pay state sales
and business taxes."
U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner in
Sacramento has stated; "California prosecutors will continue to enforce
federal
narcotics laws, unless and until ordered to do otherwise." The
government's stance is that all marijuana – medical or otherwise –
is illegal under federal law. Common sense now demonstrates the need to
negotiate standards for medical marijuana distribution that would ward
off federal intervention. In a parallel effort to the lawsuit,
advocates are drafting a ballot
initiative for statewide regulation of California's medical marijuana
industry. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) has also filed in four federal districts in California a challenge to the Obama Administration’s recent crackdown on medical marijuana operations
'Time 4 Hemp - LIVE!' (M-F on
AmericanFreedomRadio.com at 10-11a.m. PST) is following this growing
dilemma with a 'Taxing Monday' segment each week concluding on December
26,
2011. The IRS has given Harborside until Christmas day to pay $2.5
million dollars or shut their doors and surrender all their property and
assets. Each segment is archived and easily located through the Time4Hemp.com website. The Discovery Channel features DeAngelo in 'Weed Wars' (12/01/11) - check their website for more information. PBS recently aired the documentary; 'The Roots To Prohibition' by Ken Burns, concluding it to be a failed policy that nearly destroyed the economics of America in the early 1900's by trying to enforce an unenforceable law. You can go to www.PBS.org to
review the program or buy the DVD.
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Posted by Time 4 Hemp at 11/11/2011 3:39 PM 
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Categories: music and talk, politics, medical marijuana, marijuana reform, marijuana, The Time 4 Hemp PotCast, war on drugs, music, War On Drugs, hemp, HEALTH
Tags: Debra Busmeyer Steve DeAngelo Harborside medical marijuana dispensary Henry Wykoski IRS american freedom radio gary johnson new mexcio medical marijuana billion dollar crop marijuana cash crop hemp norml mpp marijuana marijuana music free mp3 download hemp podcast LEAP NORML high times Casper Leitch hemp music medical marijuana marijuana podcast War On Drugs medical marijana congress war on drugs pot time 4 hemp legalization casper leitch lynnette shaw CNN dpa marijuana activists skunk magazine drug policy alliance jack herer Peter Christ homeland security leap US HEMP cia dea ed rosenthal Paul Stanford United States Justice System drug truth network dean becker mistaken global commission on drug policy jodie emery big brother cannabis common sense chris conrad Ed Rosenthal freedom freedom activists medical cannabis journal veterans administration cato institute Chief Green Bud libertarian marijuana arrest mikki norris CA Prop 19 Green Bud red dirt AIDS AIDS RESEARCH ethan nadelmann gatewood galbraith libertarian party roger christie The Tall Brothers california prop 19 Red Dirt west coast leaf Green Fever hemp food hemp plastic irv rosenfeld the tall brotheres the tall brothers
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