Posted on 04/11/2019 12:21:02 PM PDT by Ken H
Is that how legality of alcohol works now?
>>Is Barr going down the pot rabbit hole just like Sessions?<<
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Just the opposite.
The 18th and 21st amendments make it absolutely clear the federal government has no authority regulating substances.
Good move on the part of Barr.
I suspect President Trump is with this.
Plenty of pot smokers in CA. They should try to sell. I can’t stand the smell of pot or cigarette smoke. Makes me ill.
Barr is smart!
Just like Sessions, it is not up to Barr.
Congress makes laws, DoJ enforces them.
One thing that is probably reasonable, would be for Congress to re-schedule marijuana under the Controlled Substance Act.
Currently, marijuana is listed as a schedule one drug - worse than Meth or fentanyl, and supposedly with no recognized medical use.
Schedule 3 or 4 would be more realistic, and would allow companies to be legally involved in production and distribution, subject to whatever regulations apply.
Amen!
Maybe not.
I read an article several weeks ago regarding the plight of some pot growers in Oregon. When Oregon removed restrictions on growing, some people invested their life savings in setting up large scale growing operations.
Unfortunately, their analysis of the risk versus return on that investment was evaluated using a market price for pot which turned out to be double the actual market value. They are losing everything they had.
If you intend to do the same, what presumed market value would you put on pot? I have seen bales of alfalfa, which perhaps weighed fifty pounds, going for ten dollars. Is there some inherent reason why pot cannot be grown, harvested, and sold for that? That works out to less than two cents per ounce.
I think you are confused about what legalization entails.
Using what funds?
See: Rohrbacher-Farr, now, Rohrabacher–Blumenauer amendment...
The funds to stop criminal activity . The stuff done by DEA every day. Change the law or comply or go to jail.
Any state that allows marijuana to be sold. Got it?
Article VI of the U.S. Constitution declares the constitution, laws, and treaties of the federal government to be the supreme law of the land to which judges in every state are bound regardless of state law to the contrary.
Civil war settled that. Get off this states rights crap or try to stop abortion.
I am amazed at the misguided pot heads on here. My Gosh!!you should be ashamed.
Is there anything about the law today that is NOT confusing?
An AG who intends to follow the law, unless they fix it
I asked a question. You replied with another question. Not much help.
As an Oregonian, I can tell you that when it was legalized here a lot of people lost substantial (for them) amounts of money on growing pot.
Their thinking was just like you are saying -- too much money in it for me not to do it.
The problem is that today's price includes a risk premium for it being illegal. Once it is legal that premium rapidly disappears. The price falls to just a little bit over the cost of production for a fairly efficient farmer.
That first year was amazing. The local Home depot brought in a truckload of freezers for growers to store their pot in. But I bet a lot of that pot is still in those freezers 2 or 3 years later. Unsold and now almost unsellable.
There is a reason it is called "weed" -- it is very easy to grow. Maybe not the super-potent stuff, but certainly stuff that is good enough.
Almost everyone who thought they were going to make a killing in the pot market ended up poorer and worse off...
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