I don’t know the answer, but I hope someone does. This is a clear conflict of federal and state laws.
I’m not clear on how a state can override a federal law, when there is already a federal law on the subject. Hopefully someone can educate all of us.
I would hate to see federal agents arresting people in Colorado based on this.
A state can't. The only thing standing in the way of prosecution is restraint on the part of the feds. Most laws are selectively enforced anyway.
Feds seize $1M in marijuana from Boulder County grow, raid Nederland dispensary - Boulder Daily Camera, 21 November 2013
Laws are enforced selectively now...(not like they weren't before...) Didn't you know?
FMCDH(BITS)
The Obama regime rules by executive fiat. They enforce the laws they like, and ignore the laws they don't like. Heck, His Heinous even makes up laws when it suits him.
Remember how the regime came down on Arizona for having the temerity to enforce the federal laws on illegal immigration within the borders of their own state?
And what does Congress have to say about it? Not a whisper.
I’m not clear where the Constitution gives the Federal government the power to regulate recreational drugs. Didn’t we have to amend the Constitution to give Washington the power to outlaw alcohol?
“I’m not clear on how a state can override a federal law, when there is already a federal law on the subject. Hopefully someone can educate all of us.”
10th Amendment.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.