Ok, but at least lose the laws prohibiting old weed dealers from getting into the legal market.
You know there's a site called reparations.me, you can donate to black families, believe me or not I've given one of my old mountain bikes, an old cell phone, an old laptop cpu and some winter coats and pants to black kids in need.
Reparations doesn't mean handouts. If you were a tad more thoughtful, you'd research how reparations programs would play out, and it wouldn't be a massive handout to anyone, but instead provide programs for training and education to the most vulnerable in society. But I know that you disagree with any kind of gov. assistance for anything and that's fine, it's America. You can be in favor of a unequal distribution of resources as most American conservatives are!
And overall, it really sucks that something which is legal in several states and the nation's capitol is illegal in many other parts of the country and the cops there practice zero tolerance (in fact, in some areas, weed interdiction is the only law enforcing that goes on).Back to the ot, this is another example of outlaws vs inlaws.
Every generation has the outlaws; the hell be damned, hell be served, lovin the hate fire breathing rebels. They almost always get busted.
And every generation has the inlaws; either the been-there-done-that or the evil-as-sin crowd. These are the people guarding all the doors and holding all the keys. They have the capital and the juice to get things done politically and they use it.
The two groups will never be happy together, even though they are at times one and the same, and one usually becomes the other over time.
As a society we don't like sinners running sinful enterprises. We don't allow felons to work in the gambling, liquor, or financial trades. This is just an extension of those prejudices.
So I guess we are talking to what degree do you want to grant amnesty? Surely someone busted for simple possession shouldn't carry a felony conviction. But what about the knee busting, cap popping dealers? Are they different from the 20 unit mule?
It's not plain and simple me thinks.......
Seeing this industry take shape here in Michigan I have one takeaway...fuck dispensaries. Turns out that whether they are run by corporate interests or former black market weed dealers, they're all greedy mofos.
It won't just be the retailers and dispensaries. Breeders and growers will be targeted, online personalities will be put away, any outlet that merely tolerates a pro-cannabis message will be attacked.
Yes, I agree. It's very possible that Jeff Secessions could order the state authorities to start searching homes door to door (there'll be exemptions for the homes of the wealthy).
He doesn't have the authority to order the states to do that, and how many would obey? You think California would?
Back in the dayz of ronnie raygun they were seizing yachts and homes for "one" (1) joint. You can still find the stories on google. The feds don't need state cops to do this. They can get federal warrants and enter your home. They just need boots on the ground, and they have an unlimited budget to fill those boots.
But they won't use federal cops to do it. It'll be more efficient to empower the eager staties to do it, and it foments statie loyalty to the federales.
Back to the ot, this is another example of outlaws vs inlaws.
Every generation has the outlaws; the hell be damned, hell be served, lovin the hate fire breathing rebels. They almost always get busted.
And every generation has the inlaws; either the been-there-done-that or the evil-as-sin crowd. These are the people guarding all the doors and holding all the keys. They have the capital and the juice to get things done politically and they use it.
The two groups will never be happy together, even though they are at times one and the same, and one usually becomes the other over time.
As a society we don't like sinners running sinful enterprises. We don't allow felons to work in the gambling, liquor, or financial trades. This is just an extension of those prejudices.
So I guess we are talking to what degree do you want to grant amnesty? Surely someone busted for simple possession shouldn't carry a felony conviction. But what about the knee busting, cap popping dealers? Are they different from the 20 unit mule?
It's not plain and simple me thinks.......
Called federal court injunction, and the feds have used it over and over to make states comply with federal law. There's a long history of jurisprudence on this. There will be a fight. Some states will appeal any injunction, but that could take years, and eventually, with the GOP stacked courts, the fighting states will lose.
ATF, CBP, FBI and DEA do this today. They like to have local support, but they move independently as well.
and when the states ignore the injunction? With the shitstorm going on in Washington right now they aren't about to start with this. If things cool down and I don't see how, then they might try something, but not something like this.
I agree, and we also have an army of state jackboots and many different state bureaus of narcotics that are itching for the federal order to crackdown on weed, whether in legal or illegal states. It would make more sense for Jeff Secessions's states' rights ideology to empower staties to do the crackdown. It gives an illusion that the federales are kowtowing to states' rights.