DOJ will NOT take Washington and Colorado to court over marijuana legalization

[pscot]

http://blog.seattlepi.com/marijuana/2013/08/29/associated-press-reports-feds-wont-challenge-states-legal-marijuana/

The Obama administration will not go to court to stop Washington’s voter-approved law that makes pot legal. Nor will it take action against a similar law in Colorado.

Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes, a longtime advocate for marijuana reform, said the move means that the Obama administration will “let Initiative 502 stand.”
.........

A three-and-a-half page memo from Deputy Attorney General James Cole set down conditions under which the feds will step in. The conditions include:

•Growing marijuana on public (read federal) land with danger to public safety and the environment. A major marijuana “grow” operation was uncovered four years ago in the Ross Lake National Recreation Area, on the lower slopes of 9,000-foot Jack Mountain.
•The retail sale and marketing of marijuana to minors.
•The illegal use of firearms in the cultivation or retail sale of marijuana.
•Evidence that money from the growing and sale of marijuana is going to drug cartels and criminal enterprises. Evidence of Mexican drug cartel activity has been uncovered in Washington. The “B.C. Bud” trade in British Columbia is heavily controlled by Asian and biker gangs.
•Evidence that marijuana grown in legalization states is being shipped out of state. Attorney General Eric Holder made clear, in a meeting with Gov. Jay Inslee and AG Bob Ferguson, that what’s grown in Washington should sta in Washington.
•Evidence that growing of marijuana is being used as a front for the production and sale of illegal and more dangerous “controlled substances.”

U.S. attorneys, such as Durkan, appear to have been given considerable latitude in determining where to prosecute and deploy the federal government’s enforcement authority

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

1. Two down-forty eight to go!

[pscot]

2. The 1st glimmer of intelligence

from the DOJ.

[SomethingFishy]

3. This reminds me of a scene in the movie The Right Stuff

Where they were debating on whether or not Virgil "Gus" Grissom should be "allowed" to be called "Gus". In the end the government relented "Ok.. You can be Gus".

We got this on the ballot, we voted for it and a majority of people agreed with it. Now they want to give us "permission". LOL... "OK.. You can smoke pot".

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

4. Just between you and me

I've been known to do it,once or twice,without anyones permission.Don't tell anyone though.