Free Republic

Where I live right now there are MASSIVE FIREWORKS going off. And they have been for past 30 minutes non stop. It is the Sound of FREEDOM! In my State and area, they are totally legal. Every year when I hear a FREE PEOPLE blowing off such a massive amount of PERSONAL FIREWORKS, I thank God that I live in one of the FREE STATES of AMERICA. The first many years of my life it was not so, having grown up in NANNY/COMMIE STATE where fireworks were illegal. Big government had to protect you from hurting yourself, controlling as many...

In an escalation of the ongoing conflict between the U.S. government and the nation's burgeoning medical marijuana industry, California's four U.S. attorneys sent letters Wednesday and Thursday notifying at least 16 pot shops or their landlords that they are violating federal drug laws, even though medical marijuana is legal in California. The attorneys are scheduled to announce their coordinated crackdown at a Friday news conference. Their offices refused to confirm the closure orders. The Associated Press obtained copies of the letters that a prosecutor sent to 12 San Diego dispensaries. They state that federal law "takes precedence over state law...