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December 18, 2014 02:09 PM UTC
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What has always been true for beer now applies to weed:
If you take an Okie fishing you's better take two of them.
If you only take one he'll smoke all of your weed.
Maybe Governor Sam "Skidmarks" Brownback could close his gaping (and ever growing) budget deficit by pushing for legalization in Kansas.
P.S. I presume Kansas will soon join the other two Great Plains states in the lawsuit.
Reminds me of another grandstanding AG from a dry state.
40-odd years ago the Kansas AG, Vern Miller (doesn't that sound just perfect?), raided an Amtrak train for serving liquor while traversing Kansas, which still outlawed alcohol at the time. It also resulted in airlines halting alcohol service while flying over the state.
We know how that turned out. I suspect legal weed will also win out slowly in other states.
Case dismissed with extreme prejudice. Lawsuit already violates the 10th Amendment before it started.
Oklahoma and Nebraska needs to learn how to be progressive, not assholes. Oh, med marijuana is now legal in the United States – as the CRomnibus removed that criminality.
Therefore, the case has no standing.
Colorado should counter-sue them to collect what I call the "idiot tax" of $50m each from both states and set up border crossings from Nebraska and Oklahoma, and the tolls should be hefty for these morons. Then these morons can complain to the elected morons. Then the elected morons will formally apologize after travellers complain about the taxes levied on them for crossing Colorado.
Great job, Nebraska and Oklahoma. I had planned on a I-76 trip through the shitty state of Nebraska over the summer, but instead I'll take the I-70 east to Chicago. Long way, but worth it to avoid tainting myself with idiots. But then Kansas is also an idiot state, but it's their fucking problem and they didn't bother to join their border states…
Maybe want to check a road map before you plan any interstate driving trips . . . um, anywhere??? . . .
. . . just sayin'
I hear that neighboring states are already stopping anyone on the youngish side with Colorado plates to search for weed. In the process they can ticket them for any little infraction, real or imagined, they can come up with. I suspect our legalization is more of a money maker than an expense for neighboring states.
I suggest you fly instead of drive.
Own stock in Frontier do ya, Frank? 🙂
Regarding the Cromnibus: not quite. It does defund any federal intervention to prevent states that have legalized medical marijuana from "implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana."
It is a direction regarding how to allocate enforcement resources. It does not, in any way, legalize medical marijuana. That would require delisting marijuana from Schedule I.
Also–the Cromnibus amendment prevents the Department of Justice from interfering with medical marijuana laws, so it doesn't do much to solve the problems that the medical marijuana industry has with the IRS, which is under the Department of the Treasury.
Go home boys….you're drunk.
Digital blurb on that opinion. Nice work.
Have they forgotten they recently sued the Feds over 'states rights' re: Obamacare? They're more confused than a two-peckered billygoat in a field full of nannies.
Bifurcated huh? Their case isn’t worth the paper its written on, Unlike the Declaration of Independence & the Constitution, 1st & 2nd drafts were written on hemp containing paper (Dutch) (final was on parchment) Both states afflicted by "second hand fumes", one sucks the other blows.
The biggest drug problem we had in Colonial America is the biggest problem we face today: alcohol
There is a reason I live in Colorado. Although it may be more expensive than some states, you get what you pay for.
Why don't those states just raise taxes, in order to pay for more enforcement? Have they even explored that option?
Illustration from Rolling Stone article:
There is no question that Colorado could decriminalize marijuana. However, in taxing and regulating an industry that is clearly illegal under federal law, the state has taken an enormous risk, and it is not surprising that there are legal repercussions from neighboring states. It is not a stretch to think that the Supreme Court will find that Colorado cannot create or permit a marijuana industry that violates federal law.
Consider these situations:
Utah starts issuing state licenses to industries to allow them to emit mercury into the air, creates a regulatory and trading system for such permits, and collects taxes based on the amount of mercury released. If air-borne mercury finds its way to a neighboring state–say, Colorado–could Colorado sue to enjoin Utah on the grounds that, since mercury emissions are illegal under federal law, Utah is prohibited from creating and profiting from a market in mercury pollution?
Can Utah exempt foodstuffs manufactured in its prisons from safety and sanitary regulations, and then sell salmonella-tainted foodstuffs in state-regulated stores set up at the border with Colorado?
Is a Virginia gun store that sells weapons that it knows are illegal in New York to buyers that it knows (or should know) will transport those weapons to New York immune from suit by or on behalf of New York?
Can Oregon regulate assisted-suicide?
My understanding of the Oregon assisted suicide statute is that it essentially decriminalized assisted suicide. In other words, a physician and patient who meet certain requirements and satisfy certain protocols are immune from state prosecution. Otherwise, the state is not encouraging, facilitating, or regulating the practice. Assisted suicide might still break federal law regarding prescribing the drugs used, but I don't know if there is a case on point. In the medical marijuana area, there is most definitely a case–Oakland Cannabis Club–in which the Supreme Court held that, notwithstanding state-level legalization, medical marijuana activities violate federal law.
I have zero clue on the legal issues you bring up, but I do know that, in the big historical picture, change around social issues always begins at the state and local levels, then gradually percolates upwards to the Federal level.
Examples: women's suffrage, abolition, civil rights, access to abortion and contraception, equality in marriage.
So I'm not too worried about the Supreme Court ruling that Colorado can't enact laws contradictory to Federal ones. These people are all about "state's rights", as Michael brought out. Ruling in favor of the Federal Government and against a State law would be, well, anti-Freedom.
And use of medical and recreational cannabis is not restricted along party lines – the staunchest conservatives uphold the individual's rights to choose his/her own remedies.
Nebraska Complains About Colorado Weed While Enabling South Dakota Alcoholism
Yeah, that is a pretty stunning bit of hypocrisy on the part of Nebraska.
When you have no hope…
Like David Wilcox said..”You can always get what is second best, but you can never get enough..
What you call 'hypocrisy' the ministers call quid pro quo.