For one thing, the federal government has not acted in good faith re: marijuana legalization. Since they have deliberately acted in bad faith, disrespecting the Constitution while supposedly being its protector, they have no argument that the states are doing anything wrong in this matter.barry99705 wrote: I still don't know how states can legalize it, when it isn't legal at the federal level. Didn't know states could overrule federal laws.
The DEA has deliberately ignored scientific research on cannabis and other drugs, as well as legitimate petitions to get marijuana re-scheduled. They are abusing the regulatory powers granted to them by the Constitution, to the point of doing nothing with those petitions until being sued multiple times. They are obviously in this to defend their budget, and keep police and prison budgets artificially bolstered. I wouldn't be surprised if companies within the beer industry were pulling levers behind the scene, as well. It is a disgusting miscarriage of justice, an abuse of resources (including taxpayer dollars), and an abuse upon everyone who has ever been incarcerated for smoking a doobie.
The DEA's chief had to resign earlier this year because her employees were attending "sex parties" thrown by Colombian cartels. There isn't an emoticon on this forum to indicate how funny I think that is.
Sen. Ron Paul (or maybe it was his son Rand?) brought forth a bill to consider federal legalization. I don't remember who, but there's some stodgy old coot who gets to veto any bill brought up for consideration based on his whims, and whoever is paying him money to pretend to have opinions about things. He decided that our elected Senators need not consider the bill.
At this point, even the legislature can't ignore what's going on - and they have acted to curtail the DEA, and to stop them from interfering with state medical marijuana laws: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/201 ... dea-budget" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
My favorite part: They took $9 million away from the DEA and will spend it on body cameras for the same police who profited from the incarceration of pot smokers.
Even John McCain is saying now that marijuana legalization isn't an unreasonable topic. If a staunch conservative heavyweight like him is saying this, it's only a matter of time.
