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RainDog

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11. I do think the public is at that tipping point
Mon May 28, 2012, 02:25 AM
May 2012

and public opinion on this is not going to go back to what it was pre-legal mmj in various states.

now it's just a matter of the politicians coming around to accept they cannot continue biz as usual, even if it makes some of their contributors unhappy.

you know what I would REALLY love?

I would love it if the claim that Congress legalized medical marijuana all over the nation because it voted on funds to make it possible for D.C. to enact the mmj laws that people there voted for. I don't know what, if anything, will happen with that claim, but wouldn't it be great to have the courts say - well, yes, this action means that medical marijuana is legal in all 50 states.

If one prominent attorney is right about the legal ramifications of the District of Columbia's marijuana law -- specifically, that it was approved by the U.S. Congress -- then it could be a game-changer nationwide.

D.C.'s medical marijuana law was the first time that the United States Congress had ever given its explicit assent to any state or local law that permits the medicinal use of marijuana -- and, according to a California attorney who specializes in health care compliance, that is enormously significant under the Equal Protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.

​In 2009, noting that it was "allowing" the voters of Washington, D.C., to vote on and implement that city's Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment law, Congress approved medicinal cannabis in the federal District of Columbia, over which it has all governmental power.


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