The Gazette, 16 Apr 2013 – A majority of Colorado voters told state government last November that marijuana should be legal. They did so after hearing promises of a legal marijuana trade generating money for education while mostly destroying a dangerous black market that made mockery of drug laws. Ads made legal marijuana revenues sound like manna from heaven. Marijuana remains illegal by federal law. That means little in Colorado because the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Printz v. United States that federal authorities may not direct local or state law enforcers to administer or enforce federal laws. Given the limited presence of federal cops in Colorado, and other states, federal laws will do little to curtail marijuana use and transactions in Colorado.
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