{"id":6385,"date":"2013-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.canorml.org\/wp\/on-ground-and-in-sky-protesters-implore-holder-to-stop-war-on-medical-marijuana\/"},"modified":"2022-06-04T17:30:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T00:30:36","slug":"on-ground-and-in-sky-protesters-implore-holder-to-stop-war-on-medical-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.canorml.org\/wp\/on-ground-and-in-sky-protesters-implore-holder-to-stop-war-on-medical-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"On Ground and In Sky: Protesters Implore Holder to Stop War on Medical Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"65%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><iframe style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden; width: 450px; height: 35px;\" src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fstaging.canorml.org%2Fwp%2Fnews%2FActivists_Protest_Eric_Holder_in_Berkeley_on_ground_and_in_sky&amp;send=false&amp;layout=standard&amp;width=450&amp;show_faces=false&amp;action=recommend&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font&amp;height=35\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/td>\n<td><iframe style=\"width: 130px; height: 20px;\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets\/tweet_button.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.canorml.org\/wp\/images\/BannerInSky.jpg\" width=\"550\" \/><br \/>\nBERKELEY, MAY 11th. Cal NORML and ASA protesters sent a message to A.G. Holder as he addressed UC Berkeley Hastings Law School graduates at the Hearst Greek Theater on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Holder: End RX Cannabis War <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Peace4Patients\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Peace4Patients,<\/a>&#8221; read an airplane banner that circled the stadium for two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Just days earlier, Holder&#8217;s DOJ had delivered a forfeiture letter aimed at closing Berkeley&#8217;s longest-established medical cannabis dispensary, <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.canorml.org\/wp\/news\/Feds_file_forfeiture_against_Berkeley_Patients_Group\">the Berkeley Patients Group,<\/a> in defiance of city officials who called the BPG a &#8220;model citizen.&#8221; DOJ also filed a forfeiture suit against the Shambhala dispensary in San Francisco, allegedly for operating too close to a park. Not only is the park closed, but Shambhala is located over 1,000 feet from it door-to-door, while a liquor store is located much closer.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters flashed a banner &#8220;Fight Crime, Not Cannabis&#8221; in front of Holder&#8217;s limousine as he arrived at the event. One of them called out to him in person as he walked into the venue, evidently annoying the A.G. &#8220;The Attorney General saw our message loud and clear,&#8221; says Cal NORML director Dale Gieringer, &#8220;There&#8217;s no way he can come to the Bay Area and not be reminded of his bad faith with regards to medical marijuana.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.canorml.org\/wp\/images\/GroundTeamweb.jpg\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.canorml.org\/wp\/images\/BannernPlane.jpg\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/05\/13\/eric-holder-marijuana-protest_n_3264683.html?utm_hp_ref=tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HuffPo: Eric Holder Marijuana Protest In Berkeley: Attorney General Greeted By Unfriendly Crowd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERKELEY, MAY 11th. Cal NORML and ASA protesters sent a message to A.G. Holder as he addressed UC Berkeley Hastings Law School graduates at the Hearst Greek Theater on Saturday. &#8220;Holder: End RX Cannabis War #Peace4Patients,&#8221; read an airplane banner that circled the stadium for two hours. Just days earlier, Holder&#8217;s DOJ had delivered a &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"On Ground and In Sky: Protesters Implore Holder to Stop War on Medical Marijuana\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.canorml.org\/wp\/on-ground-and-in-sky-protesters-implore-holder-to-stop-war-on-medical-marijuana\/#more-6385\" aria-label=\"Read more about On Ground and In Sky: Protesters Implore Holder to Stop War on Medical Marijuana\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":6616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.canorml.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.canorml.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.canorml.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.canorml.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.canorml.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.canorml.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.canorml.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.canorml.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.canorml.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.canorml.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}