Likely involves some of these.
Posted on 12/17/2014 11:22:21 AM PST by ConservingFreedom
Dispensaries in the 23 states that have legalized medical marijuana can all breathe a sigh of relief. The massive “Cromnibus” spending bill passed Saturday night includes an amendment that essentially shuts down the DEA’s pricey prosecution of state-sanctioned medical marijuana.
The amendment bans the Justice Department from using funds to “prevent [medical marijuana states] from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.”
The bill now awaits approval from President Obama.
The Obama administration has regularly raided and prosecuted medical marijuana dispensaries regardless of state laws. According to a study by Americans for Safe Access, the administration has spent $80 million each year prosecuting medical marijuana, amounting to $200,000 every day and $300 million since Obama took office.
The amendment won’t eliminate all the legal problems medical marijuana producers face due to federal marijuana prohibition. It does not address banking issues that prohibit them from depositing their profits, for example. But advocacy groups are hailing it as a significant step in the right direction.
“The federal government will finally respect the decisions made by the majority of states that passed medical marijuana laws,” Rep. Sam Farr (D-Calif.), a co-sponsor of the amendment along with Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), told The Huffington Post. “This is great day for common sense because now our federal dollars will be spent more wisely on prosecuting criminals and not sick patients.”
The amendment will also shield industrial hemp production from the DEA. Industrial hemp production is legal in eighteen states and has been approved by the Obama administration, but just this year the DEA seized hemp seeds intended for a legal research program.
A majority of Americans support leaving marijuana laws up to the states, according to a recent study from Third Way. 78 percent support legalizing medical marijuana, and 67 percent support granting states who pass legalization a safe haven from federal laws. 60 percent prefer state control over marijuana legalization, rather than federal.
Meanwhile, the fate of weed in Washington D.C. post-Cromnibus remains in question. A group of congressmen banded together to quietly include a measure intended to freeze D.C.’s legalization by pulling funds to enact it. But now some lawmakers think there’s a loophole in the language that could end up making weed even more freely available in the District.
“Based on a plain reading of the bill and principles of statutory interpretation, it is arguable that the rider does not block D.C. from carrying out its marijuana legalization initiative,” said Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), speaking on the House floor last week.
Instead of blocking legalization, some now argue it would allow legalization to move forward but prevent enacting regulation to go along with it—leaving marijuana legal but unregulated.
It d@mned sure does. You don't get to make pipe bombs Ted Kaczynski. You don't get to spread ANTHRAX Dr. Hatfill. You don't get to run a Prostitution ring out of your bedroom Senator Frank.
There are certain activities which are detrimental and damaging to the community and which you don't have a right to do in or out of "your bedroom."
If "Your bedroom" is connected to "OUR" public swimming pool, you do not get to leave poop there which will migrate out to the areas we swim in.
Nor will anyone else whose mind is already made up - but I'm not talking to them, just through them to those interested in facts and logic.
My point being that it has been used for many centuries in other cultures, for it’s benefits. The Chinese don’t use it very often because of it’s side effects, and they only use it in very small doses.
Even though you deny it you are still pushing pot on this forum. There is nothing medical about these pot head boutiques and you know it.
Not at all. Just because the "legalize pot!" crowd is drowning in made-up phone baloney research and statistics, does not mean that people involved in other issues are also doing so.
Generally it's just the forces of evil that make crap up to get what they want. You know, homosexuals, abortion advocates, feminists, Race Baiters, and drug supporters.
Weapon? I don’t think that word means what you think it means. Unless you cede to the federal government the power to regulate every rock, bush or tree in which case you must love the destruction of the second amendment.
Then YOU don’t get to read your Bible...or hang up any copies of the Constitution in your home, or discipline your kids in your own home. Hell, I bet you clean your guns in your living room. This is a DIRECT threat to your neighbor, should you accidentally fire the weapon and it goes through the walls! No, you’re right. We DO need to regulate EVERYTHING you do in your own home, because it ALWAYS affects everyone else. Lol. Are you really this ignorant?
Likely involves some of these.
You may find this of interest regarding your point.
Harvard Prof: If you take away religion, you can't hire enough police
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/grace_notes/harvard_prof_if_you_take.php
Who cares?!?! IT DOESN'T MATTER why someone uses it, it's NOT YOUR BUSINESS. If you don't like it, don't buy it. PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!!!!
It's not liberty, it's libertine. It's right up their with legalized sodomy and abortion in terms of moral validity.
Wrong. "the available evidence from animal and human studies indicates that cannabinoids can have a substantial analgesic effect. [...] The profile of cannabinoid drug effects suggests that they are promising for treating wasting syndrome in AIDS patients. Nausea, appetite loss, pain, and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting, and all can be mitigated by marijuana. [...] The accumulated data suggest a variety of indications, particularly for pain relief, antiemesis, and appetite stimulation." - Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base (1999), Institute of Medicine
Check out the billions of dollars in Hemp uses:
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/ncnu02/v5-284.html
Great, drug the country and see how that goes!
The already drugged warriors have been such losers and such a drag on us already. Making this legal is a BIG mistake.
I can understand a cancer patient with the drug, but not recreational users.
“From personal experience I can quite assure you the consequence of other people smoking their weed will definitely come back and bite other people in the A$$.”
So what?
Have you ever heard the concept of freedom explained by the statement “your freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins”? Just because the exercise of a freedom has the potential to impact others is no argument to ban the exercise. It is simply an argument that legal consequences may be necessary IF and WHEN that exercise impacts others.
Don't act the child. What you did here is a form of deliberate lying. You falsely equated my point that "medical" marijuana is a bunch of hooey, with wanting to deprive weak and old people of pain relief.
You are deceitfully ignoring the fact that THE VAST BULK are not "70 and 80 year old geriatric cases". If you are going to lie, I don't want you talking to me anyway.
What DiogenesLamp wants to do is liberty - what someone else wants to do is libertine. I get it now.
It's right up their with legalized sodomy and abortion in terms of moral validity.
You said in post #118 that it's not a moral issue - make up your mind.
And note that abortion kills a nonconsenting person, unlike pot use.
The legal definition of "sodomy" also includes such things as oral sex between two heterosexual partners.
You want to outlaw that, too?
You really do LOVE big government.
It's clear you don't know, so I'll enlighten you - MJ has been around for many, many many years, and in use. It DIDN'T just pop on the scene with legalization. As for use, consequences, etc., the only difference between now and then is that it's legal now. That's it. The ONLY difference. Nothing else has changed, really.
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