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To: NobleFree

How do you determine whether the pot is intrastate or interstate?

Would you agree then that if someone is caught selling pot in Colorado that was grown in California or Hawaii that the federal government has the right under the laws of the Federal Government to arrest that person and throw that person into a federal prison in Colorado?

Can Sessions prosecute such a case?


152 posted on 03/03/2017 6:21:14 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: P-Marlowe
How do you determine whether the pot is intrastate or interstate?

One possible way is to establish a chain of evidence: X acquires pot in state A and is found with pot in the same quantity and packaging in state B, and so on.

What one DOESN'T do is say that since it can be difficult to distinguish intrastate from interstate pot, that therefore the feds get to exceed their Constitutional authority and ban ALL of it.

Would you agree then that if someone is caught selling pot in Colorado that was grown in California or Hawaii that the federal government has the right under the laws of the Federal Government to arrest that person and throw that person into a federal prison in Colorado?

Can Sessions prosecute such a case?

Yes and yes.

154 posted on 03/03/2017 6:28:50 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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