Your War on Drugs

Remember last summer, at the end of the Supreme Court's term, when the decision in Raich was handed down a lots of law enforcement officials said that they had no desire to vigorously go after medical pot users? Well, that was horseshit. Consider this tale of Steven Tuck, a veteran who grew his own pot which he used to treat chronic pain from a variety of sources. He fled to Canada in 2001 after his pot patch was raided. Last week, Canadian authorities, acting on behalf of your US government, was taken from a hospital and dragged before a US court for prosecution. As if that weren't enough:

Tuck then went five days with no medical treatment and only ibuprofen for the pain, the attorney said.

Tuck, 38, was still fitted with the urinary catheter when he shuffled into federal court Wednesday for a detention hearing Wednesday.

It gets worse:

U.S. Magistrate Judge James P. Donohue ordered Tuck temporarily released so he could be taken to a hospital for treatment. But by the time Donohoe issued his order, King County Jail officials had received a detainment request from Humboldt County, California, so Tuck was not released Wednesday, Hiatt said.

Certainly sounds like a fine use of my tax dollars.