Depending on what goes down once the laws go into affect we’re guaranteed another episode in ideological hypocrisy. If Obama’s drug warriors go after them then the left is exposed once again that they don’t give a rats ass about civil liberties and personal choice. If the right starts to scream for the drug warriors to go after them then they’re exposed again on how they don’t give a rats ass about states rights and the “will of the people” as these measures were voted on, not decided by a judge(s) or the state government.

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Easy Judas, Vic is just another racial nationalist paleocon that has seemed to lost his way onto a libertarian blog. I think it’s a record that three of them have stumbled here within a week. The other two commented on Radley’s Prediction post. Who knows maybe us Agitators will get a treat and Lonewacko will make an appearance.

Really? What color were the drugs?

Oh… jackass!

NOT TRUE. Crack evolved. Drug use evolves. Users and dealers do whatever they can to get a better high. The most successful marketer of crack was Ricky Ross in Los Angeles. He was a colored drug dealer. His crack – he called it ready rock – got people higher and did so faster. He “cooked” it so his buyers could buy it and smoke it immediately. Get higher and do it faster that’s drug use evolution.

Inhaling gets users higher. That people taught themselves to freebase in the 1960′s and 1970′s then developed crack in the 1980′s was inevitable. It wasn’t caused by drug policy it was caused by people choosing to dope themselves and wanting to get higher.

“Misdemeanor cases of marijuana possession will be dropped in Washington’s largest counties after voters legalized the drug, prosecutors said Friday.

King County was dropping 175 cases, prosecutor Dan Satterberg said. Pierce County prosecutor Mark Lindquist said his office will do the same, but he didn’t immediately know the number of cases affected.

Under Initiative 502, possession of an ounce or less of marijuana will be legal for people 21 years or older after Dec. 6. The initiative passed on Tuesday with 55 percent of the vote.

“Although the effective date of I-502 is not until Dec. 6, there is no point in continuing to seek criminal penalties for conduct that will be legal next month,” Satterberg said in a statement.”

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019648488_apwalegalmarijuanacases3rdldwritethru.html

But I’m willing to bet that when the contagion that is municipal foreclosure starts to raise it’s ugly head in Oregon, they’ll be ready to bend the law for “creative” finance alternatives like asset forfeiture.

I don’t believe that lie for one second. The local LEOs will do the bidding of the feds. Period.

They don’t have the morals or the courage to tell the feds to go screw themselves.

Nor do they have the balls to arrest any fed that attempts to arrest a citizen on these charges.

“Will SPD assist federal law enforcement in investigations of marijuana users or marijuana-related businesses, which are legal, at the state level, under I-502?

No. Officers and detectives will not participate in an investigation of anything that’s allowed by state law.”

http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2012/11/09/marijwhatnow-a-guide-to-legal-marijuana-use-in-seattle/

Idk, what if the local police just decide they like marijuana being illegal so they’re going to bust people anyway? What if the federal government decide to give some more grant money to local law enforcement, undermining their loyalty to the local jurisdiction they work for?

Anyway, Bob#40 said it better than I can.

Do not hold your breath for an elected politician with principles. Although seeing a sheriff arrest a DEA thug would make my year.

what makes you think the federal government has the resources to stop wholesale legalization of marijuana in two states?

Two words: “Asset Forfeiture”. The feds will just enlist local law enforcement to be their bitches on the ground by waving that in their faces. This is assuming, of course… that the “Legal System” doesn’t strike down the laws.

If the legal system actually does it’s job, and says it’s the FEDS that are overreaching their constitutional limits by infringing on State’s rights in the first place… well then we could have a pretty big ideological divide brewing with the country split between the “blues” and the “reds”, both groups knowing the country is fucked up, and blaming the other group instead of the real puppet masters in DC.

I, with sadness, think not. I am convinced that his reversal was a simple, venal, disgusting sop to the police unions. I hope whatever he got from them was worth it.

I disagree. City police and county sheriffs piss their pants when the feds show up.

The feds bitch-slap them and tell them how many sugars to put in the coffee.