DOJ will allow WA, CO marijuana laws to go into effect

[Lief 🗽]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/29/eric-holder-marijuana-washington-colorado-doj_n_3837034.html

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[Nutmeg]

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Easy there, Holder. You can let these laws go into effect, but let's not get too crazy.

[King]

But 0bama is teh fascist hypocrit

[© tweed]

+1.

[Supersonic]

Meh.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

The administration's best policy yet.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Really didn't see that coming.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Smart move.  It'd be a shame if Colorado and Washington were both in play in three years.

[TDAS04]

Smart move.  It'd be a shame if Colorado and Washington were both in play in three years.

A smart move that also happens to be the right thing to do. 

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

So how are the libertarians going to spin this one into Obama being a terrible fascist and there's no difference between the parties?

[Lief 🗽]

So how are the libertarians going to spin this one into Obama being a terrible fascist and there's no difference between the parties?

They'll attack him for unconstitutionally and tyrannically picking and choosing which federal laws to enforce.

[Maxwell]

Good. That's a step in the right direction.

See? Libertarians won't just criticize Obama just cuz it's Obama.

[badgate]

So how are the libertarians going to spin this one into Obama being a terrible fascist and there's no difference between the parties?

They'll attack him unconstitutionally and tyrannically picking and choosing which federal laws to enforce.

This is already the angle John Cornyn's going for.

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[memphis]

So how are the libertarians going to spin this one into Obama being a terrible fascist and there's no difference between the parties?

They'll attack him for unconstitutionally and tyrannically picking and choosing which federal laws to enforce.

I'm very pro-marijuana, but that's not an inconsequential argument.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

So how are the libertarians going to spin this one into Obama being a terrible fascist and there's no difference between the parties?

They'll attack him for unconstitutionally and tyrannically picking and choosing which federal laws to enforce.

Because laws on the books are always perfectly logical. Here are two laws from New York.

1. Women may go topless in public, providing it is not being used as business.
2. It is illegal for a woman to be on the street wearing "body-hugging clothing".

[Goldwater]

The administration's best policy yet.

[greenforest32]

+1.

Really didn't see that coming.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

The administration's best policy yet.

[Torie]

So is the Feds' war on dispensaries in California now over too? I mean, it is inconvenient when dispensaries keep getting shut down and having to reopen, so one has to keep track of their location, like that of a traveling salesman. It just isn't very consumer friendly now is it? And isn't the government rather short on funds right now to be spending money on this sort thing?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

So is the Feds' war on dispensaries in California now over too? I mean, it is inconvenient when dispensaries keep getting shut down and having to reopen, so one has to keep track of their location, like that of a traveling salesman. It just isn't very consumer friendly now is it? And isn't the government rather short on funds right now to be spending money on this sort thing?

Oh, that's right,  you don't need to buy it from Julio on a street corner, you have (wink wink) a prescription (wink wink) as it's medically necessary (wink wink). 

[Torie]

So is the Feds' war on dispensaries in California now over too? I mean, it is inconvenient when dispensaries keep getting shut down and having to reopen, so one has to keep track of their location, like that of a traveling salesman. It just isn't very consumer friendly now is it? And isn't the government rather short on funds right now to be spending money on this sort thing?

Oh, that's right,  you don't need to buy it from Julio on a street corner, you have (wink wink) a prescription (wink wink) as it's medically necessary (wink wink).  

Yes, and when one goes into the shops, one is referred to as a "patient," and the cute chicks behind the counter (they are almost all cute chicks - which reminds me that I need to check out some dispensaries in West Hollywood), with tattoos and metal accoutrements stuck in their face or nose or tongue, are characterized as "care givers." The bud of course is referred to as "medicine." It is all very compassionate.

[Lief 🗽]

So is the Feds' war on dispensaries in California now over too? I mean, it is inconvenient when dispensaries keep getting shut down and having to reopen, so one has to keep track of their location, like that of a traveling salesman. It just isn't very consumer friendly now is it? And isn't the government rather short on funds right now to be spending money on this sort thing?

Most of the dispensary busts in California are because local governments ask the feds to help them out, because the dispensaries in California are shady as f[inks] and are obviously selling probably a majority of their weed to people who don't actually need it for medical reasons. There have been many fewer problems in other states that have medical marijuana.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

$5 says the feds still conduct raids despite saying they won't.

[Sbane]

So is the Feds' war on dispensaries in California now over too? I mean, it is inconvenient when dispensaries keep getting shut down and having to reopen, so one has to keep track of their location, like that of a traveling salesman. It just isn't very consumer friendly now is it? And isn't the government rather short on funds right now to be spending money on this sort thing?

Oh, that's right,  you don't need to buy it from Julio on a street corner, you have (wink wink) a prescription (wink wink) as it's medically necessary (wink wink). 

Isn't that preferable to buying it from some random person off the street? Of course full legalization while ending this charade is even better but you know...suburban moms.

[DemPGH]

That's the best news of all, but a future administration could, and probably would were it GOP, reverse course on this. But there may be some risk in doing that. Still, I think the stigma of Marijuana's perception amongst conservatives is the problem: it vastly overtakes the fact that the prohibition of alcohol was as senseless as the current prohibition of Marijuana.