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In reply to the discussion: Police Groups Furiously Protest Eric Holder's Marijuana Policy Announcement [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Their responsibly is simply to enforce State, County, and Local laws within their jurisdictions, the laws they mourn against recreational cannabis are dead on a State, County, and local level and so no longer their concern. They need to get familiar with the regulatory laws as they come out in their states and worry about issues like ID check for minors and whatever else is codified, they need to move on, literally to doing their new jobs of enforcing cannabis regulatory rules put in place - the same way they do now with alcohol and tobacco, if they can manage that is.
I don't even understand why they are having this conversation.
If they want the old laws back so that they can enforce them, I'm afraid their only solution is to vote for politicians that will bring back their beloved cash cow prohibition laws. They don't make the laws in their States, their jobs are only to enforce them and their only valid opinion on dead laws is as voters.
Holders policy to not enforce Federal laws in conflict with State laws is quite frankly none of their business or concern (other than as citizens and voters just like the rest of us), the only officers entitled to that conversation are those responsible for enforcing Federal laws and even they have a chain of command like all other LE officers (I think I hear their boss talking now....)