Posted on 11/21/2024 11:41:45 AM PST by DFG
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the City of Dallas after it adopted a voter-approved charter amendment that decriminalizes possessing less than 4 ounces of marijuana.
About 67 percent of Dallas voters approved Proposition R in the November election.
The amendment prohibits Dallas Police from making arrests or issuing citations for possession of up to 4 ounces marijuana. It also blocks the smell of marijuana from being used as probable cause for search or seizure and prohibits the use of city resources for THC tests, except as a part of a violent felony or felony narcotics investigation.
The City of Dallas directed the city to comply with the amendment earlier this week.
Recreational marijuana is still illegal in Texas.
Paxton's lawsuit says that municipalities cannot refuse to enforce Texas drug laws.
"Cities cannot pick and choose which State laws they follow. The City of Dallas has no authority to override Texas drug laws or prohibit the police from enforcing them. This is a backdoor attempt to violate the Texas Constitution, and any city that tries to constrain police in this fashion will be met swiftly with a lawsuit by my office." wrote Paxton in a statement.
The lawsuit is far from a surprise.
In January 2024, Paxton sued cities who passed similar measures, including Denton, Austin, San Marcos, Killeen and Elgin.
Judges overturned Paxton's lawsuits against Austin and San Marcos.
The lawsuit against the city names Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, city council members, interim city manager Kimberly Tolbert and interim police chief Michael Igo.
On Tuesday, Dallas City Council member Cara Mendelsohn proposed adding a clause to the amendment stating that Proposition R would not be enforced unless the state legalized marijuana. Council members voted against it.
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Illegal Aliens and legalizing Happy Smoke is how the RATs build their voter base.
Yep illegals, drugs, killing babies, gender dysphoria and voter fraud. These are the things that elect Democrats.
Millions of weed smokers vote Republican across the board.
There are laws per state.
Move to a state that lets you indulge, I guess.
I agree with him. Want pot legalized, then do it at the State level. Then it becomes legal in the entire state. It, like abortion, should become a State issue. That is another area that does not need to be at the Federal Level. Because neither issue is mentioned in the Constitution, and therefore rightfully becomes a State issue that is up to the state to vote on by the entire state, not a city here & a city there.
yep
Mu point exactly, change it at the State level where the power for the entire state is located. They are trying to weaken state laws along with their Constitution. Thi is who liberals operate at all governmental levels.
Millions of weed smokers vote Republican across the board.
Republican David Boyer who spearheaded the Maine weed law about 10 years ago is now in his second term in the state legislature. Also Republican Eric Brakey who has served in the Maine Senate and run for US Rep and US Senator also was part of the campaign.
“Millions of weed smokers vote Republican across the board.”
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Your source?
Millions voted against legalized Marijuana (and “medical” Marijuana).
“Republican David Boyer who spearheaded the Maine weed law about 10 years ago is now in his second term in the state legislature.”
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For many months, Red China has bought land and been operating illegal “growhouses”.
Did David Boyer take this fact into account?
“Illegal Aliens and legalizing Happy Smoke is how the RATs build their voter base.”
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Ever notice how Marijuana-legalization always appears on the same ballot alongside abortion issues?
(Sometimes even written into the State’s Constitution)...
You would have to ask David. I was just reporting the facts. Got one fact wrong, the measure passed in 2016, 8 years ago.
And it’s usually the “provisional” ballots from out of state that sends that crap from being voted down into “the miraculous Hail Mary ‘win’ territory.”
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