Congress quietly ends federal government’s ban on medical marijuana
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-medical-pot-20141216-story.html
Approval of the pot measure comes after the Obama administration directed federal prosecutors last year to stop enforcing drug laws that contradict state marijuana policies. Since then, federal raids of marijuana merchants and growers who are operating legally in their states have been limited to those accused of other violations, such as money laundering.
Isn’t it amazing, the Feds intimidated the banking system to refuse these MJ merchants having a banking account and allow the merchants to have the ability to accept charge cards. So all transactions had to be in CASH. The State of Colorado imposed a penalty on any business that paid their sales tax with CASH. So the judicial system went after these MJ merchants for money laundering … Who would have seen that coming ?
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“Since then, federal raids of marijuana merchants and growers who are operating legally in their states have been limited to those accused of other violations, such as money laundering.”
I don’t know if I would agree with that, nor am I sure this is an historic move by Congress. The DEA will always do whatever it wants, regardless of who’s in charge in the administration. Does Congress think it has power over the DEA? Like it has power over Wall Street?