Marijuana IS LEGAL already under FEDERAL LAW. Now I know you think I'm crazy but actually if you understand that the Constitution is the SUPREME LAW of the land, that means the federal government CAN'T make laws which violate the Constitution. The 9th and 10th amendments clearly establish which powers the federal government has and those powers DON'T include the power to regulate what American citizens consume as long as it is not harming anyone else. Perhaps the most glaring and obvious contradiction to the federal government's illegal schedule one classification of marijuana is the fact that the federal government actually gives marijuana each month to four patients who are: Barbara Douglass, George McMahon, Elvy Musikka, and Irvin Rosenfeld. What that means is the FEDS are providing legal protection to one group of people but calling the the rest of medical marijuana patients criminals. This is another CLEAR, BLATANT AND WILLFUL violation of the equal protection under the law clause of the CONSTITUTION because it is unconstitutional for the federal government to give legal protection one group of citizens to use marijuana as medicine but for the rest of us it's illegal. Yes you heard that right, the federal government has two contradictory positions: 1. Marijuana is harmful 2. Marijuana is beneficial medicine The Compassionate Investigational New Drug (IND) program started in 1978 after a federal judge ordered the Food and Drug Administration to provide DC resident Robert Randall with marijuana to treat his glaucoma. Others patients petitioned successfully to join the IND program, and it supplied marijuana cigarettes to as many as 14 patients from 1978 to 1992 when it was closed to new applicants. Furthermore, the basic constitutional principle of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness clearly indicates that imprisoning or persecuting someone for what they consume in a responsible manner is UNJUST AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND THEREFORE ILLEGAL UNDER FEDERAL LAW. I repeat, Marijuana is LEGAL BECAUSE THE CONSTITUTION GUARANTEES US THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF CHOICE. The federal laws prohibiting Marijuana are ILLEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL just like the federal laws banning interracial marriage, the right of women to vote, etc. The federal government tried to exterminate Native Americans and had laws against them which were later struck down as unconstitutional. Additionally, the federal government actually has a patent (#6,630,507) which clearly spells out the medical benefits of the Marijuana plant. The fact that the federal government/Department of Health owns the patent does two things: 1. Grants us equal protection under the law 2. proves the federal government has been LYING to us for years saying this is a harmful plant In conclusion, even IF Marijuana WAS HARMFUL, WHICH IT'S NOT, cigarettes kill 500,000 Americans every year, alcohol 80,000/year, prescription medications 30,000+ year, why aren't those harmful substances illegal if we used the same logic the federal government uses? The reason is simple, the federal government patented Marijuana because they know it is beneficial and since they are in bed with big business and taking bribes, they don't want people healing themselves with this medicine. Ask yourself this question, if Marijuana kills 0 people per year yet it is "illegal" while the other harmful substances are "legal", why is that? Anyone with a reasonable amount of intelligence and a basic understanding of the Constitution, patriotism, individual liberty and CONSTITUTIONAL SUPREMACY OVER FEDERAL LAW can only conclude that the current laws prohibiting Marijuana are FASCIST, UNCONSTITUTIONAL, UN-AMERICAN, UNJUST AND against everything the founding fathers died for. The feds claim that federal law trumps state law which is true however THE CONSTITUTION TRUMPS FEDERAL LAW UNDER EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE AND THESE UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS MUST BE STRUCK DOWN. SEARCH THE WEB FOR United States Patent 6,630,507 THE PATENT THAT WE THE PEOPLE/THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OWNS
Marijuana and Cannabis News
| LAist |
The action once again leaves L.A. with no laws regulating the city's numerous dispensaries, but some council members were openly wishing for an expanded federal crackdown on the shops.
Tuesday's vote followed years of attempts by the hapless council to regulate the medical marijuana dispensary scene in Los Angeles, with more than 400 dispensaries located in the L.A. metro area. The city claimed its own count revealed more than 1,000 such shops.
Council members said it was time to go back to the drawing board, saying they'd ask state legislators to "clarify" state law on how cities can regulate dispensaries.
"Facing the choice of letting you vote on overturning the ban or doing so itself following a referendum effort that turned in almost double the number of signatures needed to bring the issue to ballot, the body stuck its tail between its legs and said smoke 'em if you got 'em," reports the LA Weekly's Dennis Romero.
| L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar -- responsible for the ban in the first place -- voted against repealing it, and openly hoped for a federal crackdown on city dispensaries |
"We're pleased that the city is not going to put us through months of arduous enforcement," said Kris Hermes of medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access."We welcome the opportunity to work with the city on sensible regulations that will work for patients and the communities."
The vote is set to be finalized next week, "but given the numbers it looks good to go," the Weekly reports.
Notoriously anti-cannabis Councilman Jose Huizar -- who led the effort to ban dispensaries -- cast one of only two votes against repealing the ban; the other was the vote of Councilman Joe Buscaino.
Huizar said a federal crackdown -- which is looking increasingly likely -- might accomplish what his short-lived ban could not. "That is our relief," he told the Los Angeles Times.
After a 2007 "moratorium" was instituted by the L.A. City Council, hundreds more dispensaries opened under boilerplate language included which allowed shops with paperwork in process to remain open.




