US Supreme Court rejects states' efforts to overturn Colorado marijuana legalisation - Polidicks

[QUOTE=The Pretender;49978771]How arrogant and intrusive do you have to be to try and change other state's laws? These being conservative states, you'd think they would have heard of something called "states' rights".[/QUOTE] It's almost like 'states rights' is often just a throwaway excuse for conservative states to be able to pursue their own agenda

[QUOTE=Cheshire_cat;49980605]The Drug Enforcement Administration is under the executive branch, which is concerned with enforcing the law. They're not the ones who pass the laws or sentence offenders, they just arrest them. If you want citizens directed to centers for narcotic assistance, then that's largely in the domain of Congress.[/QUOTE][QUOTE=catbarf;49981082]Generally it's seen as a [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Davis_%28county_clerk%29]bad thing[/url] when government officials decide not to follow the law and take matters into their own hands. The DEA's job is to enforce the law as written, not to decide on their own which laws are valid and which to ignore. That's the job of the courts.[/QUOTE] The DEA—and the executive branch— holds the power to unilaterally reschedule drugs without the authority of Congress.

[QUOTE=Cheshire_cat;49980097]Yeah, because they're totally concerned with marijuana alone and not other drugs like cocaine, heroin, meth, prescriptions, et cetera. It's fairly likely that pot will be legalized on the federal level sometime in the future, but the DEA will still have quite a lot to "justify its existence".[/QUOTE] You do know they literally started the war on pot because they needed money right?

[QUOTE=CrumbleShake;49981401]It's almost like 'states rights' is often just a throwaway excuse for conservative states to be able to pursue their own agenda[/QUOTE] Holding a state to the constitution generally isn't being against state's rights.

Bernie should run for supreme court. Hell he'll have a lot more power than he would as president.

[QUOTE=Megadave;49982065]Bernie should run for supreme court. Hell he'll have a lot more power than he would as president.[/QUOTE] You don't run for the supreme court... ......

[QUOTE=Starpluck;49981489]The DEA—[B]and the executive branch[/B]— holds the power to unilaterally reschedule drugs without the authority of Congress.[/QUOTE] Bolded the important part. As soon as Obama gives the order to reclassify weed I'm sure the DEA will (grudgingly) do it. Until then, I don't buy Godwin comparisons that imply that they should be setting federal drug policy themselves or resigning in act of protest for some reason. Besides, nothing Chesire_Cat said was wrong. If you want citizens arrested for possession of controlled substances to be referred to substance abuse rehabilitation rather than prison, that's on Congress and the judicial system, not the DEA. The DEA only makes the decision of whether or not to arrest them in the first place.

[QUOTE=sgman91;49982007]Holding a state to the constitution generally isn't being against state's rights.[/QUOTE] Marijuana is unconstitutional? [editline]22nd March 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=catbarf;49983076]Bolded the important part. As soon as Obama gives the order to reclassify weed I'm sure the DEA will (grudgingly) do it. Until then, I don't buy Godwin comparisons that imply that they should be setting federal drug policy themselves or resigning in act of protest for some reason. Besides, nothing Chesire_Cat said was wrong. If you want citizens arrested for possession of controlled substances to be referred to substance abuse rehabilitation rather than prison, that's on Congress and the judicial system, not the DEA. The DEA only makes the decision of whether or not to arrest them in the first place.[/QUOTE] Apparently only the letter of the law matters and not the families made victim of the government.

if I were in Nebraska, I'd be happy that CO has their marijuana laws in place. Makes for nice drug interdiction on I80

[QUOTE=Nautsabes;49978674]who the fuck would want to go to nebraska or oklahoma anyway[/QUOTE] nebraskans and oklahomans go to colorado to get a ton of legal weed and then sell it back in their home states [editline]22nd March 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=sgman91;49982007]Holding a state to the constitution generally isn't being against state's rights.[/QUOTE] There's a difference between federal law and constitutional law. Some may argue that constitution doesn't give the federal government the right to regulate the possession and consumption of drugs. They previously had to amend the constitution to ban alcohol, but only a federal law is required to prohibit other drugs