Will California assert her state’s rights to defy The One? How far will The One and his minions go to stifle rights of Californians?
If only there was a Bay of San Francisco or something where they could have an incident, the pretext for some kind of invasion or something.
>”We will vigorously enforce the CSA against those individuals and organizations that possess, manufacture or distribute marijuana for recreational use, even if such activities are permitted under state law,”
Meanwhile he, and virtually every other member of the Federal Government fail to remember that in order for the restriction of Alcohol [Prohibition] to be valid a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT was needed.
It therefore stands to reason that the Federal Government is acting contrary to the Constitution in its National illegalization of drugs.
What a target-rich environment for the Feds! Fish in a barrel. They’ll have to turn all the Fed land in Nevada into a prison camp!
Bet he still won’t go after illegals, though.
I have mixed feelings about this. I agree with California as a “State’s Rights” issue. I’m not sure I agree with legalizing pot, though. It’s one of those things; if it fails there’s no way to put the Jeanie back in the bottle. It will be like enforcing prohibition after booze was legal for two hundred years.
Didn’t this same administration state earlier that it was not activity pursuing what they felt were lessor crimes.
I think the difference here is in the wording.
Recreational use has a criminal supply chain.
Medicinal use is a taxed and regulated supply chain.
Buy off the street = busted.
Buy from an authorized dispensary using a med card = relief from pain or whatever ails you but “not busted”.
I am against Prop 19 but this is the best reason yet to vote for it. Didn’t Holder say last year that he wasn’t going to use federal resource to go after marijuana busts? Isn’t this a change of course.
Well, Californians would probably lose at the Supreme Court level if and when the first person to appeal his/her federal conviction (if it goes that far) but it will be fun to watch the states fight the fed and vice versa, just as it will be fun to watch conservatives assert the Commerce Clause against the right of the state to legalize MJ.
Sb1070 fight proves that the liberals believe the Fed has the right to stop legalization of pot.