isn’t it a fact that marijuana is illegal under federal law? I know a number of states have legalized marijuana, but what exactly is the process, if federal and state laws contradict each other?
Is this an area of “prosecutorial discretion” or whatever the legal term is, to sort of look the other way if a federal law is being violated somewhere?
Maybe it’s time for some court cases? Can states openly legalize marijuana in violation of federal law? What about the issues of federal/state responsibilities, the 10th amendment concept, etc?? There’s a lot legally to chew on. It would be good to get this out in the open.
It's a fact that there is no such thing as an illegal drug, there are only controlled substances.
Actions taken with those substances are what are illegal.
See, after Prohibition Congress knew it couldn't make marijuana illegal so the controlled substance angle was created so the law would be considered Constitutional.
1938 to 1951
Commissioner Anslinger, sitting in Washington, seeing these marijuana insanity defenses, one after another successful, he writes to the pharmacologist from Temple University and says, "If you don't stop testifying for the defense in these matters, we are going to revoke your status as the Official Expert of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics." He didn't want to lose his status, so he stopped testifying, nobody else would testify that marijuana had turned them into a bat, and so these insanity defenses were over, but not before marijuana had gotten quite a reputation, indeed.
Don't believe laws based upon lies!!! If you do you have to support Obamacare.
Did the Feds openly violate the 10th Amendment when they made weed illegal?