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Feds won't sue to stop pot use in Wash., Colo.
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Posted on 08/29/2013 12:05:17 PM PDT by djf

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1 posted on 08/29/2013 12:05:17 PM PDT by djf
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Unusually sensible for a DOJ policy release.


2 posted on 08/29/2013 12:07:23 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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It’s stupid.

Just decriminalize it.


3 posted on 08/29/2013 12:11:19 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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Funny when the 10th amendment is recognized...


4 posted on 08/29/2013 12:12:41 PM PDT by TomServo
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5 posted on 08/29/2013 12:13:20 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: djf

As The Great Choomer himself once observed:
(or thought, or dreamed, or meant to say)

“Let ‘Em Be - A Stoned Electorate Is A Compliant Electorate”


6 posted on 08/29/2013 12:13:23 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("You bring me the man, I'll find you the crime" - Lavrentiy Beria [and Eric Holder])
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So HOLDER respects state laws regarding pot, but DISREGARDS state laws regarding voting and sodomite “marriage”. Got it.


7 posted on 08/29/2013 12:16:57 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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Stopped clock -- blind squirrel.

Don't see this standing for long, though ... when the fed jackboots realize how much power they're relinquishing, they'll probably change course and start kicking in doors again.

8 posted on 08/29/2013 12:17:18 PM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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So much for the constitutional requirement of uniform enforcement of federal laws. One can argue that the federal governments drug laws themselves are not constitutional, but clearly granting certain states an exemption from the enforcement of criminal laws violates the rights of people who live in states where they are enforced.

You can’t pass a Federal law that makes violation a crime in Texas but not in Colorado.

But since the constitution means nothing to these people anymore, who is going to complain?


9 posted on 08/29/2013 12:18:13 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: Vendome
Just decriminalize it.

They can decriminalize all recreational drugs, as far as I'm concerned.

10 posted on 08/29/2013 12:19:45 PM PDT by Kip Russell (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)
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U kiddin?

I’ll bet they are holding their breaths waiting to see what the tax revenue adds up to!

We’re talkin one big time cash cow here.


11 posted on 08/29/2013 12:20:29 PM PDT by djf (Rich widows: My Bitcoin address is... 1ETDmR4GDjwmc9rUEQnfB1gAnk6WLmd3n6)
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To: SoFloFreeper
So HOLDER respects state laws regarding pot, but DISREGARDS state laws regarding voting and sodomite “marriage”. Got it.

As I noted in post #8: 'Stopped clock -- blind squirrel'.

Every g**d*mned thing these jerks do is political. As soon as it becomes politically expedient to do so, they'll be sending the jackboots after the potheads again.

12 posted on 08/29/2013 12:21:15 PM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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Funny when the 10th amendment is recognized...

My thoughts exactly. Selective enforcement/compliance.

13 posted on 08/29/2013 12:22:18 PM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Vendome

They just did. It’s called equal application of the law. At least at the federal level. The states are still on their own over the matter.


14 posted on 08/29/2013 12:23:56 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: P-Marlowe

You might want to read a bit more.

Historically, and traditionally, and tenth-amendment-wise, the “police power” belongs to the states.

The “police power” refers to the essence of criminal jurisdiction, and has to do with matters that effect the health and welfare and general well being of the citizens.

Federal government has criminal jurisdiction where Congress controls things according to their “exclusive legislative authority”.

There are DOJ documents and Supreme Court rullings out there that explain it more, you can research them if you like.


15 posted on 08/29/2013 12:26:43 PM PDT by djf (Rich widows: My Bitcoin address is... 1ETDmR4GDjwmc9rUEQnfB1gAnk6WLmd3n6)
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We’re talkin one big time cash cow here.

Maybe, but I'm not sure they even care about that. Their primary currency is POWER, and they'll use whatever means they have at their disposal to gain/retain it.

Remember from the 2008 debates: when Charlie Gibson noted to 0bama that keeping capital gains tax rates low results in greater income to the treasury, 0bama's response was that 'fairness' (ie. screwing the 'fat cats') was more important. Pure, unabashed political power (which, according to one of 0bama's heros comes from the mouth of a gun) is really what they traffic in.

16 posted on 08/29/2013 12:27:38 PM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The Injustice Department has a different stance when it comes to states that enforce border security and immigration laws.


17 posted on 08/29/2013 12:29:56 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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I don’t care what is historical or traditional, federal criminal statutes apply to all citizens regardless of which states they commit the crime. The Federal Government can’t make a criminal law that only applies to the residents of one state. Federal laws are Federal laws.


18 posted on 08/29/2013 12:52:36 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: djf

The only laws this Nazi government is interested in enforcing are gun and tax laws. Everything else, meh!


19 posted on 08/29/2013 12:57:54 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The time for impeachment has come.)
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To: Vendome

They will once they figure out how much tax money they will get.


20 posted on 08/29/2013 12:59:51 PM PDT by funfan
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