{"id":11994,"date":"2011-11-09T12:41:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T16:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11994"},"modified":"2011-11-09T13:44:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T17:44:33","slug":"federalism-does-not-mean-do-what-the-feds-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/11\/09\/federalism-does-not-mean-do-what-the-feds-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Federalism does not mean &#8220;do what the Feds say&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US government is actively undermining California law when it comes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/politics\/97203\/Obama-medical-marijuana-crackdown\" target=\"_blank\">medical marijuana<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When you get a new car, you start noticing the same model all over the highway. It\u2019s the same way when you figure out what California\u2019s marijuana dispensaries look like &mdash; green crosses and signage about \u201cmedicine\u201d and \u201c420\u201d start popping up all over the City of Angels: On your commute to work, in your neighborhood, around the corner from your favorite restaurant. To put it bluntly, it\u2019s not hard to find weed in California.<\/p>\n<p>But that all might be about to change. The state\u2019s four U.S. Attorneys are gamely trying to alter the broadly popular status quo with arrests and threats of prosecution and property seizure for landlords who rent to dispensaries, a campaign announced in a rare joint press conference in October. Medical marijuana advocates call it an \u201cintense crackdown\u201d and have launched a lawsuit claiming the federal attorneys\u2019 tactics violate California\u2019s tenth amendment rights (Rick Perry, call your office).<\/p>\n<p>State and local officials, meanwhile, are divided in their reactions to the influx of dispensaries in California, but many say that overly eager federal intervention is undermining the state-regulated medical marijuana system that they have taken pains to set up. In other words, as long as the federal crackdown contained itself to targeting egregious offenders of state law, it was hard for anyone to object; many applauded. But by raising the prospect of a federal assault on city mayors and town councils, Obama\u2019s Department of Justice could be making more enemies than friends in California.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government is actively undermining California law when it comes to medical marijuana: When you get a new car, you start noticing the same model all over the highway. It\u2019s the same way when you figure out what California\u2019s marijuana dispensaries look like &mdash; green crosses and signage about \u201cmedicine\u201d and \u201c420\u201d start popping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,9,13],"tags":[35,715,83],"class_list":["post-11994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law","category-usa","tag-california","tag-constitution","tag-marijuana"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-37s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11995,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994\/revisions\/11995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}