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Originally Posted by seeric
So, because they verbally state that they won't pursue people, it's cause to party? Shit. The federal laws are on the books still. Put your party hats down for now. California will legalize very soon, so will many other states. Federally, those laws will always be there. Enforced or not, they keep them in their arsenal.
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It will be much harder for the Federal government to act against the laws of the state when the justice department is already on record saying they will not, if the person in question is behaving in ways that are consistent with the laws of the state. If Alaska suddenly made it legal to smoke pot while driving, the Feds might react to something like that, but the chances of the Justice Department acting against its own directive and against the laws of Washington state to arrest a guy for smoking pot in his yard are pretty much nil.... and making those charges stick against claims of selective enforcement at the appellate level would likely be futile even if they wanted to do it. Blowjobs are still technically illegal in plenty of jurisdictions because there are arcane laws on the books saying you can't commit sodomy... they aren't about to try enforcing any of those laws either.
This isn't a casual comment made by a lone FBI agent or some rookie Police officer at a seminar, it's a formal policy statement by the entire agency of the Federal government charged with enforcing federal law.
