...On October 5, the IRS ruled that one of the largest California dispensaries, Harborside Health Center, owed $2.5 million in taxes because federal law precluded standard deductions for businesses engaging in illegal activity.
In other words, Obama was not only blowing off state laws. He was declaring that legal businesses were now nothing more than criminal rackets. And he was carving away every tool they needed to function.
Why the reversal by Obama on medical marijuana? He indulged in it heavily when younger so why the crackdown now?
Because he’s a complete tool and giant flaming hypocrite, perhaps?
Why do you think it is Obama who makes any of these decisions?
No surprise there. The left has advocated drug use for years in order to foment revolution and alter and change the moral fiber of America. Now that the goal of communism is almost here he needs to clamp down so he can better control the populace.
Aren’t these dispensaries supplied by domestic farms? I thought that was the case in California. If they were getting weed off the Mexican narco market, I could see landing on this with both feet. But as it is, even if all of this weed ended up going to recreational users with lame excuses, it represents a lot of weed that would not be bought from Mexico.
In the meantime, it looks like American tolerance for the idea of legal marijuana has gotten to the 50% point according to one poll. I would not “recommend” marijuana (unless for a specific medical use that could be documented) any more than I would “recommend” tobacco or “recommend” getting habitually drunk on alcohol, but certain things may not be worth banning given that the unintended consequences of doing so are worse than the consequences of the habit.
He probably noticed that politicians “hard on drugs” get re-elected, and politicians who want to change the drug laws don’t, pretty much ever.
Drug warriors get votes, that’s why we have the laws we do.
The doper fools think it’s o.k. if the feds go after those who smoke tobacco, as long as one of their number is Prez.
The truth is a government that is able to take prohibit one thing that’s considered to be a vice is able to prohibit any other thing that’s considered to be a vice.
Eventually that government will prohibit all things that have been determined to be bad and require all things that have been determined to be good.
That's a lot of sick people.
He swore an oath to the Constitution, which permits the federal government no role in intrastrate commerce. If Californians are growing for their own consumption, then California law — not federal law — determines its legality.