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    Quote Originally Posted by n8tive97 View Post
    So does the Federal laws trump the Colorado laws? Example MMJ?
    Yes.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause
    But when the President directs his AG to not enforce a law (in the case of MMJ- the controlled substances act), then you have what we have here in Colorado.
    If a DEA agent wanted to bust anyone in this state for MJ, they technically still could, it is a federal agent and federal jurisdiction. But don't expect it to happen.

    More interesting is the Arizona / Immigration case, IMHO. There you have the state enforcing a law the Federal government has written but chooses not to acknowledge, or more accurately, willfully disregards.



    Edit: A smaller government can be more restrictive, but not less.
    What happens when a more restrictive local law goes up against the BOR? Well, we shall see, won't we?
    Last edited by Jeffrey Lebowski; 03-19-2013 at 16:13.

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