A photo snapped today by Micah Daigle at the dispensary in San Francisco.

BREAKING:   I have just received a report from Micah Daigle, Associate Director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, that he is watching a DEA raid unfold.  This was sent on SSDP’s mailing list:

SSDPers,

Looks like Obama’s pledge to end the raids on medical marijuana
dispensaries was a lie. (Or the DEA is being insubordinate.)

I’m currently standing outside a dispensary in San Francisco that is
being raided by the DEA. There are already a couple dozen protesters
gathered chanting “DEA to away!”

More updates to come…

The Obama Administration recently pledged not to interfere with medical cannabis dispensaries in states where their operation is congruent with state law, as is the case in California.  As always, I’ll keep you posted.

UPDATE 8:42PM:

(from Micah, on the scene)

The DEA still hasn’t come out of the dispensary. They brought in a
sledgehammer and a crowbar, so it look like this is yet another no-
arrest “smash and grab.” In other words, a robbery.

All the local media is here.

From what I understand, this dispensary was operating in compliance
with state law.

I’ll be uploading lots of video tonight.

ANOTHER UPDATE: A local CBS affiliate is apparently first out of the gate with this coverage, including a video.

YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Another witness to the scene contacted me and sent me this video:

This will come as no shock to those that have been following the abhorrent practices of AstraZeneca, one of the world’s most destructive pseudoscience corporations in this blogger’s humble opinion.

The Washington Post (not my usual first news source) has produced a surprisingly decent and balanced report about a study from 1997 showing that AstraZeneca’s flagship poison which they call Seroquel, was no more effective than older ‘antipsychotics’ (industry term) and had far worse side effects.

Psychonauts the world over will lament, “Well, duh!”  This Serotonin Antagonist is designed to disable the tryptamine system in the human brain – one of the most important and study-worthy neurochemical systems.  It’s a sledgehammer of a drug, and really has no business as a therapy for people who have any possibility of recovery and leading a normal life.

As students of the psychedelic mind, it’s important that we question this toxin and all others that seek to disable the neurochemical system that we know to be connected to spirituality, insight, love, and our sense of the profound.  It is alarming that this drug is available for a medical professional to administer, but not LSD, Psilocybin, or MDMA.