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Judge rules Colorado's medical marijuana law is no defense for federal drug charges
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| September 22, 2010
Posted on 09/22/2010 5:46:41 PM PDT by george76
A pot grower won't be allowed to use Colorado's medical marijuana law to fend off federal drug charges.
The decision Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Philip A. Brimmer means that Christopher Bartkowicz faces a possible life sentence on federal marijuana cultivation charges.
Brimmer said that suggestions by the White House that the U.S. government wouldn't pursue pot cases in states that allow medical marijuana cannot be used as a defense on federal drug charges.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; US: California; US: Colorado; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 10thamendment; bartkowicz; chrisbartkowicz; colorado; dopefiends; libertarians; lping; marijuana; medical; medicalmarijuana; rapeofliberty; rinos; statesrights; wod; wosd
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posted on
09/22/2010 5:46:42 PM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
And why should the federal government have ANY jurisdiction here? This is a private citizen growing a plant on presumably his own private property. Unless even a seed of the plant went across state lines or into another country then the federal government should have no case here.
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posted on
09/22/2010 5:49:01 PM PDT
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: pnh102
Its pot. You make it sound so innocuous, 'growing a plant'. It is against the law. Yes, the fed gov is often overreaching, especially these days. But this dude was growing pot.
Facing a life sentence though? Thats massively crazy. 5 yrs at most I would say.
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posted on
09/22/2010 5:56:01 PM PDT
by
Celtic Cross
(Pablo is very whiney)
To: Celtic Cross
Spare me..It is just a plant.
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posted on
09/22/2010 6:04:43 PM PDT
by
Michael Barnes
(Call me when the bullets start flying.)
To: Michael Barnes
A flower is just a plant. A shrub is just a plant.
Pot is not just a plant...It ruins lives...It wastes your brain cells.
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posted on
09/22/2010 6:07:33 PM PDT
by
Celtic Cross
(Pablo is very whiney)
To: Celtic Cross
So what if it is a plant? So what if people choose to smoke it? And 5 years, much less a life sentence for growing a plant? Murderers, armed robbers and rapists get off with less time than that.
But still, how is growing a plant at your own house a federal issue? That is hardly interstate commerce.
6
posted on
09/22/2010 6:08:28 PM PDT
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: pnh102
The federal government ( DEA, FBI, and others ) may argue that States can not unilaterally abrogate federal laws .
This may end up at the US Supreme Court as the DEA and FBI are active in Nevada, California, Michigan...too.
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posted on
09/22/2010 6:09:31 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: pnh102
Pot is so much more potent that tobacco...It is just not worth it.
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posted on
09/22/2010 6:10:04 PM PDT
by
Celtic Cross
(Pablo is very whiney)
To: Celtic Cross
But is it interstate commerce?
To: tacticalogic
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posted on
09/22/2010 6:13:42 PM PDT
by
Celtic Cross
(Pablo is very whiney)
To: Celtic Cross
So does voting Democrat but you don’t see the Feds going after those poor deluded brain destroying idiots do you?
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posted on
09/22/2010 6:16:14 PM PDT
by
lastchance
(Hug your babies.)
To: Celtic Cross
That is the federal government’s claim of authority.
To: george76
Obama lied, Christopher fries.
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posted on
09/22/2010 6:18:42 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("It's amazing, A man who has such large ears could be so tone deaf" Rush Limbaugh 9/8/10)
To: lastchance
I'm sorry, I don't quite understand your comment.
And truly, i'm not being snarky. Try punctuation, eh?
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posted on
09/22/2010 6:20:00 PM PDT
by
Celtic Cross
(Pablo is very whiney)
To: pnh102
That agriculture of any kind is interstate commerce was decided long, long ago.
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posted on
09/22/2010 6:20:03 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("It's amazing, A man who has such large ears could be so tone deaf" Rush Limbaugh 9/8/10)
To: NonValueAdded
That agriculture of any kind is interstate commerce was decided long, long ago.And before that it was decided that it is not. Who was right?
To: george76
A court that upholds the law. The leftists will be furious!
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posted on
09/22/2010 6:23:44 PM PDT
by
Mojave
(Ignorant and stoned - Obama's natural constituency.)
To: Celtic Cross
Pot is not just a plant...It ruins lives...It wastes your brain cells. So do a number of other things that we can freely buy but are not illegal.
Bottom line is your mixing morality with liberty. If you and yours chose not to grow or ingest marijuana; awesome, more power to you like us! But, as long as a grower/user does not infringe on YOUR liberties; then why is it illegal?
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posted on
09/22/2010 6:26:30 PM PDT
by
Michael Barnes
(Call me when the bullets start flying.)
To: tacticalogic
And before that it was decided that it is not.No cite, of course.
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posted on
09/22/2010 6:32:33 PM PDT
by
Mojave
(Ignorant and stoned - Obama's natural constituency.)
To: Celtic Cross
Pot is not just a plant...It ruins lives...It wastes your brain cells. Wrong. Even if true the FedGov has no Constitutional authority to make it illegal even though they claim it does through the "Living Constitution." The actual Constitutional limits on the central government are far more important than a few brain cells anyway; almost all the brain cells in the Federal government are at least socially useless or in truth actually harmful.
But in fact cannibals leads to neurogenisis.
I don't use the product, (I tried it a few times in my long ago youth, it either did nothing or put me to sleep) but as I get older I'm thinking to talking to my doc about a recommendation (I'm in a medical marijuana state, but not one as good as Calif.) for cannabis, to slow down brain aging, and to deal with bodily pains that happen as one ages. =
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posted on
09/22/2010 6:40:34 PM PDT
by
Inappropriate Laughter
(Obama: Another illegal alien living in public housing)
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