Dr Kynes
Well-Known Member
we are treading perilously close to sophistry here, but...Correct but until the laws prohibited such acts they were legal.
some things are Legal, in that they are set forth affirmatively in law.
others are Not Illegal, in that they are not prohibited by law.
and other things are specifically Prohibited by law.
for some time cannabis was SPECIFICALLY LEGAL as the growing of cannabis was REQUIRED for all farms over a certain acreage specifically for the navy and the congress' needs.
then cannabis became ILLEGAL for a very short time. until the law was overturned by the supreme court as unconstitutional.
then cannabis was taxed by the stamp, but they never printed nor offered to sell any stamps. this too was overturned by the supreme court as unconstitutional
then the Controlled Substances Act was created as a cunard. and canabis is now REGULATED into illegality with zero legislation behind the prohibition save the fuzzy and easily manipulated CSA
so therefore, cannabis is still currently LEGAL as long as you have the Tax Stamp (of which they print and "sell" 30 or so a year to the university of missouri to grow "investigational" dope for "clinical trials") or you have a "Research Waiver" from the mandarins at the FDA
so technically cannabis is STILL not illegal, but also not legal, it is trapped in the Bureaucratic Phantom Zone with General Zod.