Thursday, May 29, 2008

DEA and the Constitution (nice toilet paper!)

Okay, put your helmets on, because I'm about to go off on a major rant. Why? Because the federal government through its DEA has chosen once again to ignore the 10th Amendment of the Constitution.

The owner of six Southern California medical marijuana dispensaries, including one store linked to an accident that killed a motorist and paralyzed an officer, are facing federal drug and money laundering charges.

Federal law does not recognize the medical marijuana laws in California and 11 other states.
Federal law does not recognize. This is the depth to which we have fallen as a failed republic. This is what happens when the Constitution is treated as a "living document" (read: used as federal toilet paper).

Let me spell it out for you. Under the US Constitution, unless the marijuana in question has crossed state lines, the federal government has no authority to intervene where state law has established regulations permitting its limited sale. NONE, ZERO, ZIP.

The fact that the federal government has chosen to violate the Constitution and put itself above established state law is yet one more reminder that we are headed towards slavery. That they've chosen to do it by arresting those who provide a drug to chemotherapy patients and others who can't keep their lunch down any other way is contemptible. What next? You gonna arrest granny for growing her own so she can make it through this next chemo treatment? Oh......you are. Right.

Bastards.

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