[secretagent]

As soon as it's about drugs, everybody falls all over themselves holding up beltway bureaucracies as a moral authority.

Yes, and local authorities as well. It serves a lot purposes, does the drug war.

[tacticalogic]

Yes, and local authorities as well. It serves a lot purposes, does the drug war.

According to the Constitution, it is the jurisdiction of the local authorities, not the federal government. One of the purposes it serves is to make people forget there is a difference.