The nation's marijuana laws are an overlapping mess. Possession is illegal under federal law while an impressive list of states, including California, brazenly defy Washington's edict by allowing marijuana for medical use. Congress should have resolved this conflict years ago but now at last it has its chance. A bill, whose sponsors include Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colorado, would not legalize marijuana, but rather remove it from the federal government's list of controlled substances. That would enable states that have legalized medical marijuana, which includes California, New Jersey and Michigan, to craft and enforce their own laws without conflict with the feds.
The traditionally conservative doctors attending the California Medical Association's annual meeting earlier this month weren't high on the state's No. 1 cash crop when they called for the legalization and regulation of marijuana. They were simply acknowledging the obvious: Our current laws and the resulting war on drugs aren't working. The consequences of pushing pot underground, CMA docs argue, are worse than the potential problems of legal pot shops.
Some local anti-medical-marijuana officials believe an increase in marijuana use in California is the result of relaxed state laws toward medical marijuana. In evaluating the statistics, it shows states that have a medical-marijuana program have a significant increase in use of those who are using marijuana," said Paul Chabot, founder of Rancho Cucamonga-based Inland Valley Drug Free Community Coalition.
Some local anti-medical-marijuana officials believe an increase in pot use in California is the result of relaxed state laws toward medical marijuana. In evaluating the statistics, it shows states that have a medical-marijuana program have a significant increase in use of those who are using marijuana," said Paul Chabot, the founder of Rancho Cucamonga- based Inland Valley Drug Free Community Coalition.
Using the conflict over medical marijuana as a timely case study, this article explores the overlooked and underappreciated power of states to legalize conduct Congress bans. Though Congress has banned marijuana outright, and though that ban has survived constitutional scrutiny, state laws legalizing medical use of marijuana not only survive careful preemption analysis, they constitute the de facto governing law in thirteen states. This article argues that these state laws and most related regulations have not been and, more interestingly, cannot be preempted by Congress, given constraints imposed on Congress's preemption power by the anti-commandeering rule, properly understood. The article develops a new framework for analyzing the boundary between permissible preemption and prohibite...
A state representative and former Cumberland County sheriff has quit the board of Maine's largest medical-marijuana nonprofit organization. Rep. Mark Dion, D-Portland, resigned from the board of Northeast Patients Group on June 8, citing tension between state and federal law regarding medical marijuana, as well as his workload as a first- term legislator and his opening of a law office in Portland.
FARMINGTON -- A forum on current and proposed marijuana legislation and its consequences will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 4, in the North Dining Hall of Olsen Student Center at the University of Maine. Maine lawmakers, police officers and attorneys will discuss and debate whether Maine's current marijuana laws are too harsh, too lenient or just right.
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