The Feds and Weed

[kalm]

State's right's!

CHICAGO – Eight former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs say the federal government needs to act now or it might lose the chance to nullify Colorado and Washington's laws legalizing recreational marijuana use.
The onetime DEA heads are issuing joint statements Tuesday saying the Obama administration has reacted too slowly and should immediately sue to force the states to rescind the legislation.
The Associated Press received an advance copy of the statement Monday.
One of the former DEA administrators, Peter Bensinger, told the AP that the more time goes by, the harder it'll be to stop the two states. Marijuana is illegal under federal law.
Bensinger, who lives in the Chicago area, said not acting forthrightly to sue the states might create "a domino effect" in which other states follow suit.
"My fear is that the Justice Department will do what they are doing now: do nothing and say nothing," said Bensinger. "If they don't act now, these laws will be fully implemented in a matter of months."

Domino's are cooooooooool.


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Domino's are cooooooooool.

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[ASUG8]

The Justice Dept has been asleep at the wheel for a while now.

[bluehenbillk]

I'm curious as to what the Fed's argument would be....

[CAA Flagship]

I'm bi-curious as to what the Fed's argument would be....

FIFY

[Wedgebuster]

Colorado passed a Tourist Weed bill-

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02 ... a-in-colo/

[expandspanos]

Whatever happened to State's Rights?

The Fed needs to mind their own business, and stick to what they do best- bankrupting our nation and making us debt slaves- while creating unconstitutional legislation such as the Patriot Act, NDAA, and FISA Bills

Let us not forget, some of the best and brightest founding fathers not only grew Hemp, but smoked the Devil's weed- they didn't seem to have a problem with it.

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2000 Study finds Marijuana actually reduces the number of Cancer Cells

Marijuana And Cancer: Scientists Find Cannabis Compound Stops Metastasis In Aggressive Cancers

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If the government "Cares about our health" so much, they would ban cigarettes.

[Grizalltheway]

I'm curious as to what the Fed's argument would be....

Same thing they used with medical marijuana laws; that federal law trumps state law. In any event, Obama is on record as saying that the Justice Department "has bigger fish to fry" when it comes to drug enforcement, so I really don't see them doing much to stop WA or CO. These former DEA pricks should piss off and heed Ben Harper's words.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhKq9JvssB8[/youtube]

[89Hen]

There's a reason they were never recorded.

[ASUG8]

Whatever happened to State's Rights?

The Fed needs to mind their own business, and stick to what they do best- bankrupting our nation and making us debt slaves- while creating unconstitutional legislation such as the Patriot Act, NDAA, and FISA Bills

Let us not forget, some of the best and brightest founding fathers not only grew Hemp, but smoked the Devil's weed- they didn't seem to have a problem with it.

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If the government "Cares about our health" so much, they would ban cigarettes.

A couple of hypotheticals:
* What if my state bans it, I go to CO or WA and smoke it, then get busted upon my return by my employer 25 days later who has a zero tolerance policy?
* What if my WA or CO employer has a zero tolerance policy, but state law says it's OK? I'm not under the influence today at work, but I was two weeks ago and have THC in my system today?

I don't even partake and really don't have an issue with legalizing it - you don't really hear about some hippie under the influence robbing a convenience store, only a Taco Bell. Is it a gateway drug? Maybe - if so then there's another issue to grapple with. The Feds are sitting on a potential gold mine if they can find a way to regulate distribution, preserve quality so you know what you're getting, and tax the hell out of it like they do beer and cigs.

As for banning cigarettes, there isn't a huge elasticity curve with beer and cigs with higher taxation - people just tend to go for lower cost products, but higher taxation and the threat of breaking the law really don't diminish consumption that much. If people want it, they'll find it or a substitute. Prohibition brought moonshining, and the war on drugs really hasn't panned out too well.

[houndawg]

All kinds of plants will make you very ill or kill you, but the ones they go after are the ones that make you feel good.

Marijuana laws probably do as much or more to generate contempt for our excuse for a government. 100 million people personally know the feds are full of shit about the plant.

Why do there need to be any laws pro or con concerning the blessed herb? There aren't any for Morning Glory and you can get a heck of a buzz off of them.

[JohnStOnge]

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[CID1990]

Sent from the center of the universe.

[JohnStOnge]

BTW it is ridiculous that the People of this country have tolerated a circumstance in which the Federal government claims the power to tell people within a State that they cannot grow and ingest something when no interstate commerce is involved. Also ridiculous that we have tolerated having the Supreme Court say a farmer can't grow wheat on his own land to feed to his own livestock because it "affects" interstate commerce. We have allowed the Federal government way, WAY too much power and this marijuana thing is one example of that.

There is a serious need to put the Federal government back in its intended box. Will it happen? I doubt it. But it should.