Marijuana

* I don't care if you're for it, or against it*

* Do not turn this thread into a marijuana is better than >* etc**

* If your from Canada, we don't care if it "legalized", were you are from. Take the "" into consideration, as in they are not in context. Please keep it to USA laws*

I am a rather lazy person, so I will ask the question. And I DEMAND answers

Marijuana is classified as a schedule I drug. Meaning it has no medicinal purposes etc etc. Now my question is.... How can California "legalize" marijuana for medicinal use, seeing under (federal) law, it is classified as a schedule I drug?

Federal law trumps all state laws correct? Does the DEA not care about these "medicinal clinics"?

If someone could dig up a loophole in the federal law, that would we greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Well, federal classification is actually incorrect about it's no medicinal purposes claim.

And also, occasionally DEA feds raid a few clinics, but as to why they don't shut the whole thing down, I'm as curious as you are.

California is my next home when Wisconsin and Mississippi aren't doing it for me.

Skillet42565 wrote: Also, California state police don't enforce marijuana laws, but FEDERAL officers do enforce them.

The DEA raids the dispensary's all the time but local police can't touch them.

and LOL MARYJANE

I'm not sure how the DEA decides which clubs to raid, but it happens. They make a huge scene too. Bust through the door, guns drawn, etc. They raided one of my favorite clubs last year :(

Here you go: Compassionate Use Act of 1996

Opponents of medical marijuana usually cite the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, claiming Federal Law trumps State Law, thus invalidating Proposition 215. However, the interaction of the U.S. Federalist system of government is not that simple. Proposition 215 has been through the Federal Court systems multiple times and never been struck down.

lulz mary jane

DaveEllis wrote: pb125 wrote: I'm not sure how the DEA decides which clubs to raid, but it happens. They make a huge scene too. Bust through the door, guns drawn, etc. They raided one of my favorite clubs last year :( Is there any other way to do it?

Go with a warrant and shut it down?

It isn't a crackhouse.

rednekk98 wrote: There is a ballot question this year about decriminalization. MJ offenses would not count on the state's criminal record checks, and getting caught with <1oz(of either weed or THC pills, that's a crapload of THC) would result in a $100 fine. However, a positive drug test would also count as possession. Currently, 1st offenders are typically not charged in this state, just put on probation. I know it would certainly bring in revenue to the state, but other than that, I think it's partly a ploy to assure that democrats and young people show up to vote much like the anti-gay marrige initiatives were o encourage republicains to show. The positive test as posession thing freaks me out a little. If I'm in a car that's getting hotboxed, I'd legally be in posession of canibis for a month

Assuming you're saying you weren't smoking and would
test positive for THC,
that's not how it works.

Edited by Glassjaw - 28 September 2008 at 4:07pm

the feds can't do anything because Arnold will make them hit the road...hard