Comments on: Support The Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act

By: MichaelBoldin

MichaelBoldin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:44:17 +0000

Right, Bryce – but sadly, it's not uncommon. The whole problem of centralizing power and policy is that the state governments, rather than acting as independent, localized agents of the people who live there, are little more than oversized counties for a national government.

The root of the problem, as usual, is federal policy and federal funding. As long as the national drug war continues, you'll see state agents going along with it….hopefully less and less as more people demand it.

By: Bryce Shonka

Bryce Shonka — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:04:52 +0000

Though, based on my understanding of states rights given by the tenth amendment, trying someone on medical cannabis charges in federal court is the only way the feds would exercise any power in these cases where a state has made a determination of legality.

It's nice that the Feds are talking about backing down, but the states do not need permission to legalize medical marijuana. DC simply does not have enough manpower to do more than make examples of a few unfortunate souls without the cooperation of the state governments and agencies.

Even in CA, when clinics were being busted up, it typically involved personnel from STATE AGENCIES to actually administer the raid.

What a strange thing- for State Agencies to allow use of their personnel to arrest those selling what the state considers legal…

By: Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act Introduced in Congress « HempNews

Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act Introduced in Congress « HempNews — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:45:00 +0000

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By: MichaelBoldin

MichaelBoldin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:47:22 +0000

The important thing, though, is even if it DID work as they claimed, it would still be a violation of the constitution. That's what we're talking about here – limiting government to the rules of the constitution.

By: KentJ

KentJ — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:43:07 +0000

It amazes me that people still think prohibition works. I saw yesterday that some repub senator was talking about banning tobacco now too!

By: Michael Boldin

Michael Boldin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:52:41 +0000

Jeff: It was only introduced on June 11th...and then referred to some committee. It appears to have a long way to go still, and needs some popular support. Track it here

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:44:33 +0000

Wasn’t this voted on already on June 11, 2009?

By: johnny

johnny — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:35:10 +0000

Got my support.!

By: Michael Boldin

Michael Boldin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:53:30 +0000

I rarely support any federal action, but things like this which are directly calling for the federal government to cede power back to the states, are something I can get behind. HR1207 – on auditing the fed – is another rare one that I support.

By: Jeffersonian

Jeffersonian — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:46:05 +0000

There’s no reason at all that the federal government should be involved in this costly, awful drug war. Any efforts to bring it back to a state level with state funding and state regulations, while not perfect, is where the founders would’ve preferred this.