SAN FRANCISCO — Federal prosecutors have launched a crackdown on pot dispensaries in California, warning the stores that they must shut down in 45 days or face criminal charges and confiscation of their property even if they are operating legally under the state's 15-year-old medical marijuana law.Read the rest here.
In an escalation of the ongoing conflict between the U.S. government and the nation's burgeoning medical marijuana industry, at least 16 pot shops or their landlords received letters this week notifying them that they are violating federal drug laws, even though medical marijuana is legal in California. The state's four U.S. attorneys are scheduled to announce a broader crackdown at a Friday news conference.
The prohibitionists strike again.
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What the Feds are doing is clearly unconstitutional, as is most of what they do.
However, help for the growers may come from an unexpected direction. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been beavering away at Constitutional law issues like this for a generation now. The Tenth Amendment (which prohibits nonsense like this) may get a new lease on life soon. Read Walter Russell Mead's commentary here:
"Clarence Thomas and the Amendment of Doom"
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/08/28/new-blue-nightmare-clarence-thomas-and-the-amendment-of-doom/
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