From the the bottom of my official Colorado Department of Health and Environment MMJ application:
WARNING! THE USE, POSSESSION, DISTRIBUTION AND MANUFACTURE OF MARIJUANA REMAINS A FEDERAL CRIME IN COLORADO, AND POSSESSION OF A REGISTRATION CARDPROVIDES NO PROTECTION WHATSOEVER AGAINST FEDERAL PROSECUTION.
That's encouraging. I am waiting for Governor to grab some balls and do what they can
and are supposed to do to put an end to federal busts of legal MMJ grows. I am also waiting for the state of California to start taxing it. If California does that, no way in hell they are going to want to lose money from the feds busting 100,000 W grows.
It would no longer be Joe Schmoe v. The United States in the Supreme Court. It would be The State of California v. The United States.
The boys and girls in DC have taken the
Interstate Commerce Clause way, way outside its original intention.
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keep it illegal to buy and sell
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It will
always be bought and sold. Legal or illegal.
I understand your sentiment and agree with elements of it, but I think decriminalization a good thing. It is the only thing available to us and we must accept the reality of the situation that the easiest and most clear path to legalization is MMJ and decrimnalization.
Like I said, I certainly understand and don't wholly disagree, but it gets down to something my Dad told me when I was young and
wishing for things:
Hold out both hands. Now, sh@t in one and wish in the other. Tell me which one fills up first.
We have to deal with what we got. The way the situation is today. One good thing that comes from decriminalization and MMJ is a reduction of the money going to really bad people south of the border. And north of the border. Seedy characters in Colorado are going to have competition from MMJ grows.
'Course, I am a bit seedy myself.
