WALL OF SHAME

Movement challenges

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Implemented Drug War policies first introduced by Reagan. Launched Operation Green Merchant (1988), sent National Guard to eradicate marijuana gardens in Green Sweep (1989), comparable operations in Hawaii, Kentucky and other states.

Bush, President George, Sr.

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California Correctional Peace Officers Assn.

Lobbyists against medical marijuana and legalization who profited from imprisoning cannabis community.

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CNOA. Lobbyists against medical marijuana and legalization who profited from imprisoning cannabis community. Set up police trainings falsely claiming every pot plant yields a pound of bud, no such thing as medical use, etc.

California Narcotic Officers' Assn.

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LAPD Police Chief who instigated the DARE program, which led to an increase in adolescent drug use, testified before Congress that marijuana smokers “should be taken out and shot.”

Gates, Chief Darryl

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Federal prosecutor for Northern California, one of many who countered President Obama’s plan to tolerate state-legal medical use with a massive national crackdown wit raids on state-legal marijuana and leading to the Cole Memorandum being issued.

Haag, Melinda

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CNOA chief trainer, prosecution expert against medical marijuana patients, testified that every plant yields a pound but he’d personally seen small plants yield less than an ounce of bud.

Mollica, Mick

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Drug War President set up Blue Ribbon “Shafer Commission” that called for decriminalizing up to an ounce of cannabis (1972), but instead declared marijuana “Public Enemy #1”

Nixon, US President Richard

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Drug War President responsible for property forfeiture, mandatory minimum sentences, conspiracy law, snitch culture, pre-employment drug testing and depriving cannabis consumers of housing, education and other social benefits, and “Just Say No” approach to drug education through DARE. Meanwhile, Oliver North made cocaine distribution plans out of the White House basement.

Reagan, US President Ronald