Marijuana Industry Projected To Create More Jobs Than Manufacturing By 2020

[Warren DeMontague]

44. and the authority of the federal government to dither around in it when it doesn't involve

interstate commerce, via the commerce clause, hinges on one rather dubious piece of supreme court reasoning, nothing more.

We feel citizens united is bad law, too, don't we?

Beyond that, it has NEVER been the job of the federal government to enforce low level drug laws on the ground in the states; that falls to the state and local authorities themselves. And surely one so well versed as yourself in the law realizes that the Feds cannot FORCE a state to criminalize marijuana at the state level.

Conversely, if they fuck too much with legal states, the states have a "nuclear option" which would be distinctly unpalatable to the feds, and that potentiality as much as Obama being POTUS may have been what drove the logic of the cole memo:

http://www.thestranger.com/news/2016/12/21/24755256/one-way-to-protect-washington-states-legal-weed-market-from-trump-burn-it-to-the-ground