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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
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On May 8, 2015, mastermindreader wrote: How are they not? If the law applies equally to all, then under what circumstances should it be selectively enforced? Federal law is law, no? How can it be ordered to be ignored, esp. in this context? People have started businesses. Should they be subjected to having everything swept away on the whim of some fool politician? If ex post facto law isn't absurd, then it should be applied to the banking industry. After a few new laws are enacted, that is.
If you need fear to enforce your beliefs, then your beliefs are worthless.
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
NYCTwister- I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm saying that selective enforcement, ex post facto, etc. are valid ways of challenging the validity of laws.
I was merely suggesting a strategy that I believe would be effective in challenging the sudden enforcement of anti-marijuana laws in jurisdictions that have previously legalized its sale and distribution. The fact that the federal government has chosen to not enforce federal law confers, in my opinion,a de facto federal legal status on the state's actions, reinforced by the federal direction to banks that they accept accounts from marijuana dealers in states where its sale has been legalized. |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
What of the federal government's reminder on the White House website that notwithstanding states' actions, marijuana use continues to be a federal crime? Complete with preface that it's "important" to note that.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
That doesn't change the fact that the executive branch has directed the DOA not to pursue enforcement of federal law in states that have legalized marijuana. Nor does it seem consistent with the direction to banks that they may indeed grant business accounts, loans, etc. to legitmate marijuana dealers.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
What a dumb drug. That is its cognitive effect. Potheads, they become ridiculously dumb, unable to solve the simplest problems or utter a coherent sentence. It is good for controlling things like prison populations as it keeps them happy, so long as they have got enough.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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The Hermit Veteran user 301 Posts |
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On May 8, 2015, mastermindreader wrote: No backtracking. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/natio......6367137/ A section of the federal tax code known as 280E was meant to prevent tax write-offs for illegal drug activity. It was enacted in 1982, before medical marijuana was legalized in any state. The Internal Revenue Service applies 280E to pot shops operating legally under state law. Because of 280E, the effective tax rate for many marijuana businesses is 50% or more, according to Taylor West, deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, and Henry Wykowski, a lawyer representing marijuana businesses. The majority of businesses audited by the IRS end up settling, but Canna Care, a medical marijuana dispensary in Sacramento, is fighting the IRS' charge that it owes nearly $875,000 in back taxes. |
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The Hermit Veteran user 301 Posts |
Bob: The IRS allows you to write off pot inventory, but not other normal operating expenses.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/04/14/26......ess.html |
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