This is a victory for advocates of States Rights. From the Blog: Tucked deep inside the 1,603-page federal spending measure is a provision that effectively ends the federal governments prohibition on medical marijuana and signals a major shift in drug policy. Under the provision, states where medical pot is legal would no longer need to worry about federal drug agents raiding retail operations. Agents would be prohibited from doing so. All these measures, whether for medical marijuana or recreational, have been instances in which states have nullified federal law to varying degrees. The recreation legalization measure in Colorado, which prohibits any state agent from arresting, ticketing, raiding, or otherwise interfering with users of cannabis (if over age 21, etc.) makes it unconstitutional (according to the Colorado constitution) to assist federal agents with prosecuting cannabis users. This is nullification pure and simple, and other states that declare various types of cannabis use to be legal are also nullifying federal law by passing laws in direct contradiction to federal law.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 15:28:41 +0000
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