I’m not sure I catch your meaning. Are you saying that if Sessions decides to crack down and arrest some owners of pot stores, that Brown will try, physically, to stop them? I’m sure he’d be willing to “tell” Trump and Sessions they were in the wrong, but I’d be surprised if he actually tried to stop them.
The obscure burg of Huntington has a very busy one that is considerably closer than Baker City. About 20 miles or so. Shows up on Yelp, I think.
LOL, that’s what you got from his post?
The state has records of who is growing and dispensing. If the feds asked for those records, could the state send them packing?
The feds asked for voter records (the short-lived and non-lamented Voter Fraud Panel), and the state told them to pound sand.
AFAIU, The states and municipalities are not required to assist the Feds in enforcing federal law. This would be similar to the issue surrounding “Sanctuary Cities”. The reason I asked more about active resistance (i.e., physically trying to stop) is that was what was mentioned in the post that jsc1953 was responding to. But the feds wouldn’t need state records of who is selling pot at the retail level. They’d get all the yelp they needed from the internet.
I think I understand the problem.
Growers probably don’t advertise on the internet, but would be in the state’s database. Plus having that data would be evidence against either grower or seller. Just curious as to how it would play out if the feds demand access to that database as well.
I would think that it would be more local than state cops that get involved in “defending” from the feds. If the county sheriff and a few deputies just happen to be hanging out around a dispensary when the feds show up… I have no idea what would happen.
Was that intentional?
Heroin is a drug, cocaine is a drug. Both are killer drugs, mostly because they are so illegal that there’s a shit ton of money to be made off them. Alcohol is a drug that just plain kills
Weed is milk and cookies.
Yes.
I think Deppity Dawg is doing pot growers a favor here, the threat of FEDERAL PROSECUTION puts the kibosh on big investors thus creating favorable market conditions for the mom 'n Pop growers. Consider this, pot is fully legalized Jan 1 201?, that is the day Bezos flips the gro-lite switch on 100,000 acres of feminized Trainwreck and MK Ultra, then pays off the Feds springing El Shorty G from SuperMax to run the whole operation, red white and green drones crowd the urban airspace bringing magic pain relief opiate free to the masses and we are all so happy…
As of May, 2016. MJ industry was generating $90,000,000 in tax revenue for Colorado (since it was legalized in 2013). Employed 16,000 people. Good luck shutting us down.
What a bunch of stupid assholes are trying to run the country.
I doubt it will ever be unregulated. But, if it as regulated as alcohol and tobacco, that would be about appropriate.
Here, please watch some interviews of the voters on your team. Come back when you have a better clue.
The conventional narrative among those that study these things is that a lot of opiate addictions begin as opiate treatments, after a significant injury or surgery. Doctors were very casual for a lot of years about handing out bottles and bottles of pills to people and offering little warning about developing a chemical dependency nor guidance for stepping down. People keep abusing opiods after the pain is gone, but the pain was where it started–not at party or something.
There are still times where people really need major painkillers and the risk of creating addicts is real. If some of that could be replaced with marijuana, fewer addicts would be created.
As I said elsewhere;
1> Good luck in jury selection.
2> Good luck gaining the cooperation of the states.
3> Good luck convincing US Attorneys to prioritize the prosecution of thousands of misdemeanor and felony pot cases in the face of potentially hostile juries and without the cooperation of the states; as opposed to more serious criminal matters.
While this is certainly true, this isn’t my main motivation and it isn’t what is ultimately going to prevent pot from being illegal again.
That thing is, for me, this: I won’t be shamed any more.
I won’t be silent about my pot smoking any more. I won’t keep quiet and on the down low out of fear that I’ll lose my house, my job, my freedom. I’ve been living a lie as far as my pot smoking goes, for most of my life now, and I won’t do it any more.
I’m a decent person: I earn my money, I vote, I pay taxes and I do what I can do to try and make the world a better rather than a worse place for us all to live. But I’m not going back to shady deals and code words and the constant low-level background stress of worrying because this thing that I (and so many others) like is illegal for no good reason.
I’m done compromising on this issue. And I don’t think I’m alone or even in the minority on this any more, which is fantastic. Pot will stay legal but more importantly it will be allowed to become acceptable, normal and unremarkable.
Fuck you; we’re not going back.
Err, not “you” Jackie, btw; yer cool. General whole-wide-world third-person “you”, I meant. Oh, and Jeff “Suck It” Sessions, I did mean you: fuck you.
Preach.
If General Beauregard, who has recused himself from the possible firing of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, wants to best serve his Dear Leader (wasn’t Jeffie Beau the first top Gopster to endorse the short-fingered sociopath?) then he needs to find an excuse to resign. Perhaps his War on Pot is his effort to go out in a blaze of glory. I expect a resignation speech where he says he’s too disgusted to continue serving in the liberal Sodom and Gomorrah.
Do we have another thread to Pit Jeffie Beau? Progressives overwork the term ‘racist’ but there is much evidence that this contemptible excuse for a man really is a Despicable Racist Pig.
It’s about time society got over the whole “drug” thing. Drugs of all kinds are pervasive. Some are great, some not so much. Some are deadly at infinitesimally small doses, yet miraculous in their beneficial therapeutic effects in certain use cases. The problem with Cannabis is the stigma that goes along with decades of government suppression for motives completely unrelated to the thing itself. Brains don’t get "un"washed quickly or easily.
The medical narrative around weed is another thing society could really use a wake-up call on. Opiate replacement therapy is a big opportunity, but of lesser importance in the larger scheme of medicinal applicability. The drug itself is by no means a one-off compound like most pharmaceuticals, but an amazingly complex group of substances called cannabanoids with markedly different effects coming from different plant strains and correspondingly wide ranging implications in numerous different medical applications.
Apart from that, from a recreational standpoint, it’s like catnip for people - literally fucking harmless, used responsibly.