Because the current administration is taking a hands off approach toward marijuana and the individual states initiatives.What, then, is the difference between Kansas' federal firearms nullification law, and Colorado and Washington's marijuana law (or the multiple states' medical marijuana laws)?
Marijuana is still considered to be illegal under federal law, and its production, distribution, possession and consumption can still be enforced by the feds in those states who willfully ignore federal law and write their own laws that supercede federal laws.
I've always understood it from early civics classes, that a state cannot write a law that legalized what federal law made illegal, but they can make illegal, or place further restrictions upon things that the federal government made legal.
However if the state started allowing stores to sell newly manufactured machine guns to anyone who could pass a background check. The Feds would swoop down and put a stop to it in a second.
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