Illegal at a Federal level, but legal on a state level is a weird type of ambiguous, but the states it is legal in your won’t be raided by local police, and probably Even Federal Police.
I get what you’re saying, but that raises an entirely different ambiguity vs the states where it is illegal but decriminalized. Because you’d have to lump them all in together at that point, defeating the purpose of differentiating between the criminality within state law.
Just look at the difference between New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana for instance. They all treat marijuana differently on a state level but they’d all be painted one color under the logic of federal acceptance and lose the nuance of how it’s handled in actuality.
And besides all that, the vast majority of cases where someone is brought to charges in the US defer to state law precisely because the fed doesn’t have a standard. The only time the US tends to step in is for felony level cases or interstate crimes.
But when you have dispensaries have large signs and even highway ads and pay taxes, it is not just “unenforced”, it is for all practical applications, legal
It’s not ambiguous at all. Federal law trumps state law. It is still very much illegal in all of the United States, and the federal laws could be enforced again at any moment depending on the whims on the Justice Department.
It’s inaccurate to say that it’s legal in any part of the United States. “Illegal but unenforced” maybe.
Illegal at a Federal level, but legal on a state level is a weird type of ambiguous, but the states it is legal in your won’t be raided by local police, and probably Even Federal Police.
That would be illegal but unenforced
I get what you’re saying, but that raises an entirely different ambiguity vs the states where it is illegal but decriminalized. Because you’d have to lump them all in together at that point, defeating the purpose of differentiating between the criminality within state law.
Just look at the difference between New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana for instance. They all treat marijuana differently on a state level but they’d all be painted one color under the logic of federal acceptance and lose the nuance of how it’s handled in actuality.
And besides all that, the vast majority of cases where someone is brought to charges in the US defer to state law precisely because the fed doesn’t have a standard. The only time the US tends to step in is for felony level cases or interstate crimes.
But when you have dispensaries have large signs and even highway ads and pay taxes, it is not just “unenforced”, it is for all practical applications, legal
It’s not ambiguous at all. Federal law trumps state law. It is still very much illegal in all of the United States, and the federal laws could be enforced again at any moment depending on the whims on the Justice Department.