Justice Department Just Says ‘Yes’ To State Pot Legalization
August 29th, 2013After a majority of voters in Colorado and Washington said yes to marijuana legalization, the question became: How would the federal government respond? Marijuana remains illegal under federal law and critics like to point out that President Obama’s Justice Department has been even more aggressive than the Bush administration when it comes to cracking down
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How States Are Making It A Felony To Enforce Federal Gun Laws
May 3rd, 2013by Lois Beckett, ProPublica In mid-April, Kansas passed a law asserting that federal gun regulations do not apply to guns made and owned in Kansas. Under the law, Kansans could manufacture and sell semi-automatic weapons in-state without a federal license or any federal oversight. Kansas’ “Second Amendment Protection Act” backs up its states’ rights claims
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New Bill Would Let States Legalize Marijuana
February 7th, 2013Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) want to end the prohibition of marijuana in the U.S. and begin to regulate it as we do alcohol and cigarettes. Their new bill would remove marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, shifting its regulation to the renamed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Marijuana
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Add Same-Sex Marriage To The List Of Things Rand Paul Doesn’t Understand
February 1st, 2013Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) doesn’t understand how the Civil Rights Act of 1964 improved America. He doesn’t understand why you shouldn’t introduce unfounded WorldNetDaily conspiracies into Senate testimony. And now he doesn’t “understand” same-sex marriage. “I believe in traditional marriage,” Paul told Bryan Fischer on the Focal Point radio show. “I really don’t understand any other kind
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Obama Won’t Go After State Marijuana Legalization: ‘We Have Bigger Fish To Fry’
December 14th, 2012In an interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters, President Obama made his first statement on how his administration will react to ballot measures that legalized the recreational use of marijuana in Colorado and Washington. “We’ve got bigger fish to fry,” Obama said. “It would not make sense for us to see a top priority as going
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