So this slipped through congress on the last federal budgetary bill
“Sec. 538. None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin, to prevent such States from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana. Sec. 539. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used in contravention of section 7606 (“Legitimacy of Industrial Hemp Research”) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-79) by the Department of Justice or the Drug Enforcement Administration.”
Thanks for the heads up @jupiter00000; #stoners .... where are ya on this post: Seems deeply significant...
Steemit is strange like that. This makes marijuana effectively legal - or immune to legal repercussion to a large degree - in these states. I find that to be very significant.
Thanks for posting this on steemit. Wonder when the government will slip legalization by non-enforcement in:
Check out my post on full legalization:
https://steemit.com/marijuana/@melek/save-the-weed-save-the-usa-how-legalizing-marijuana-will-fix-all-our-problems
Do you have a link to the rest of the surrounding text? I'd like to read this in context.
It SOUNDS, to me, like they are disallowing funds to be used in 30+ states which already have legislation for cannabis/hemp. Are there sections mentioning the rest of the states??