House of Representatives votes to defund war on pot

[Ridge]

http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2014/12/12/congress-ends-war-on-medical-marijuana/


The Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment to the $1.1 trillion cromnibus spending bill blocks the use of Department of Justice funds to “prevent [medical marijuana states] from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.”

[GilpinGuy]

Good. It reduces Federal spending and returns more control to the States? Fine by me.

[Great-Kazoo]

EXCEPT.. The standard game of federal butting in , as they did in CA (IRS) is about to happen here. Like i've said before, wait til the feds realize how much revenue they are Not getting.

http://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/local/2014/12/12/federal-reports-target-colo-marijuana-money/20311459/

Like gun owners these business face the feds . Do you know someone with a gun, if so call us @ 555-555-555. Replace gun with marijuana.

The federal government is stockpiling hundreds of "suspicious activity reports" that could provide federal agents with sufficient evidence to shut down any state-legalized marijuana business.

[GilpinGuy]

The federal government is stockpiling hundreds of "suspicious activity reports" that could provide federal agents with sufficient evidence to shut down any state-legalized marijuana business.

I read that story this AM. Here in the casino biz, we are obligated to submit "suspicious activity reports" as well. Here's the story:Feds: Casinos must track pot business owners, workers at game tables (http://www.denverpost.com/marijuana/ci_26020649/feds-casinos-must-track-pot-business-owners-workers)"Colorado's 40 casinos — and hundreds of others, including in the gaming mecca in Las Vegas — are bound by the same money-reporting rules that have made banks reluctant to let legal marijuana businesses open bank accounts, federal authorities now say.
That means casinos can keep anyone associated with legal weed enterprises — from dispensary to grow operations — away from gaming tables anywhere in the country.

And if they do allow them to play, casinos must file the same suspicious activity reports banks must file whenever they handle money derived from pot profits, according to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, a division of the U.S. Department of the Treasury."