Sorry I’m not a pearl clutching dinosaur like you. I’m Less concerned that the citizens of CA voted to make a state law making pot legal than the state just arbitrarily decided to ignore immigration law.
But what was it like to be involved in the temperance movement?
I guess being called a “dinosaur” is fair, I did say that using the legal authority of a letter was “stupid,” which it is BTW, though there was probably a less blunt way to put that. The immigration law thing is similar to the pot thing. We have laws because that is the most equitable and sane way of handling these issues that we’ve got.
It seems likely that either the Congress will have to address the pot issue or else a SCOTUS decision will do so. The California-ing of the whole rest of the country by the Obama administration only served to devastate the economy of the rest of the country and to p*ss lots of people off.
Personally, I have lobbied (successfully) for the decriminalization of pot. Basically, the only way people will be arrested locally is if they make a total nuisance of themselves. There are no large-scale pot growing enterprises to attract Federal scrutiny, and it would be a costly waste of Federal resources to come into our community and start chasing down all of our local stoners. I mean, if they want to donate law enforcement services to my community, I’m sure the local taxpayers won’t complain, but it seems like a no-win for the Feds ;)