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"Let local residents handle it" is also how we have legal marijuana and gay marriage.
by throwaway201103 6y ago
"Let local residents handle it" is also how we have legal marijuana and gay marriage.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> "Let local residents handle it" is also how we have legal marijuana and gay marriage. Well, no, we nationally have gay marriage because of federal court decisions voiding state actions prohibiting same-sex marriage as violations of the federal Constitution. And we don't have legal marijuana anywhere in the United States (we have states which have chosen not to layer state prohibition on top of federal prohibition for some acts involving marijuana, an federal law mandating deferring prosecution for certain acts involving medical marijuana that are consistent with state law. Anyone who actually makes significant money in marijuana would still be subject to the federal drug kingpin laws were the policy deferring prosecution ever to be lifted, and technically without that if any part of their business involved any acts not entirely within the required deferral of prosecution.)