Holder Has No Choice But To Make A New Statement.

[peanutbutter]

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/06/eric_holder_must_clarify_decis.php

 

Four U.S. Congressmen want Attorney General Eric Holder to clarify the Obama Adminstration's position on medical marijuana, and what they're asking for cuts down party lines.

 

Ironically, it's two Democrats who are pushing for states' rights, while two Republicans are demanding that the federal government keep its stranglehold on the marijuana industry.

 

In a June 15 letter to Holder, Congressmen F. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin and Lamar Smith of Texas note that they "strongly" disagree that the feds shouldn't bust medical pot dispensaries. Both have long been considered drug-war "extremists."

 

Meanwhile, Democrats Barney Frank of Massachussetts and Jared Polis of Colorado, who both would like to see marijuana legalized outright, have asked Holder to let states with medical-pot laws do what they wish.

 

 

james sensenbrenner with stache.JPG

F. James Sensenbrenner

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While local blogger Greg Patterson recently penned a thoughtful argument about why Repubs are "following the rule of law even when they disagree with it. He refers to the outlandish decision in a 2005 Supreme Court case in which a pot-growing operation was said to be interstate commerce even if the pot never crossed state lines. Patterson goes on to say:

 

I think the Supreme Court got it wrong, but the issue has been decided. Do we follow the court or not. Obviously, even if we disagree with Supreme Court interpretations, we follow them.

 

Yet we as Americans don't just follow something like that blindly. When we don't get what we want, we push back. In the political wrangling before a landmark 1992 Supreme Court abortion case, for example, Pennsylvania GOP leaders pushed to overturn or modify Roe v. Wade.

 

No mental gymnastics or appeals to the rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court are required to see that how politicians feel about marijuana influences their position on this issue. If conservatives believed in the concept of medical marijuana, you can bet they'd be ahead of Democrats in crying that this was a states' rights issue.

 

That being said, it's hard to believe that Holder will make a clear decision on medical marijuana because that's not how the Obama Administration rolls. Like Patterson does occasionally, we'll make a prediction even on the chance that it'll be wrong: Holder's impending clarification will both allow states to have their medical laws but stop well short of reversing the Schedule One status of marijuana.

 

Anything clearer than that probably will have to wait until after the 2012 presidential election.

[peanutbutter]

Note that he has no choice but to respond to this request.

 

He is required by law to do so.

[peanutbutter]

GREAT .. could someone please remove the extra 'e' in Holders name in the title?

 

thanks.

[+EdwardGlen]

GREAT .. could someone please remove the extra 'e' in Holders name in the title?

thanks.

 

 

Good post (don't cha hate it when that happens in the title)

[peanutbutter]

Good post (don't cha hate it when that happens in the title)

 

Yep .. worse I sent off a letter to the Detroit news that had produce instead of product twice.

 

Can't go back and edit something like that. (DOUGH!!)

[Guest thequietone]

GREAT .. could someone please remove the extra 'e' in Holders name in the title?

 

thanks.

 

[Wild Bill]

Note that he has no choice but to respond to this request.

 

He is required by law to do so.

 

Really? I think he only follows the laws that are to his personal advantage.

[+EdwardGlen]

Yep .. worse I sent off a letter to the Detroit news that had produce instead of product twice.

 

Can't go back and edit something like that. (DOUGH!!)

 

 

Oh that suuucks...

 

I know when my daughter was in Florida I sent her B-Day card and wrote a little note in it. She sent back a spell checked and grammatically corrected copy with this in her thank you note, Dad, use MS word

 

Gotta love your kids (ya can't send'em back)