by Jacob Sullum. Last week, nearly 10 months after voters in Colorado and Washington decided to legalize marijuana, the U.S. Justice Department finally responded. Its announcement, which took the form of a memo to U.S. attorneys from Deputy Attorney General James Cole, promised neither acceptance nor confrontation, saying only ... MORE
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The Reasons To Doubt The Feds Respect For Pot Laws
by Jacob Sullum. Last week, nearly 10 months after voters in Colorado and Washington decided to legalize marijuana, the U.S. Justice Department finally responded. Its announcement, which took the form of a memo to U.S. attorneys from Deputy Attorney General James Cole, promised neither acceptance nor confrontation, saying only ... MORETeresa Mull: States' Rights Only Apply To Getting High
Feds don't hesitate to interfere everywhere else. The federal government is not known for being consistent, except, of course, when it comes to being inconsistent. Staying true to form, the Obama administration has decided randomly to respect states’ rights for once, saying it will not challenge policies put in place by Washington ... MOREPaul Armentano: Marijuana Legalization Is Inevitable
And it is time for the Feds to admit it. Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy is demanding Congressional hearings in September to address the growing divide between state and federal marijuana laws. With twenty states now having legalized the medical use of cannabis — and two additional states having legalized non-medical marijuana ... MORE
Fed Workers Paid $155M To Work For Labor Unions
by Alissa Tabirian. Federal employees were paid more than $155 million of taxpayer dollars in 2011 for spending more than 3.4 million hours of "official time" on labor union activities that fell outside their assigned government duties, according to a survey by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). "Voluntary membership in ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: The Cannabis Is Out Of The Bag
Prohibitionists might want to think carefully about this. At the end of May, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed legislation aimed at taxing and regulating the commercial distribution of marijuana for recreational use. The legislative process had been haunted by the fear that the federal government would try to quash this ... MORE
Rich Tucker: The Right Kind Of Federalism
Americans should be free to choose. Regular elections are a critical feature of American democracy. If
you don’t like the way your town, state, or federal government is
headed, you know you’ll have a chance to change leadership at the ballot
box. Of course, if your state is slowing you up with high tax rates and
slow growth, there’s no ... MOREPublic Approval Of Supreme Court Falls To All-Time Low
Lawyers in robes seen to ignore Constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court finished its term with big decisions on voting rights, affirmative action and same-sex marriage. Following those rulings, public approval of the court has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded in more than nine years of polling. A new Rasmussen Reports national ... MOREMassive New Fed Crackdown On Legal Pot Dispensaries
by Nicole Flatow. In several West Coast cities, federal officials are initiating a new round of crackdowns against dispensaries that are seemingly complying with state medical marijuana law. In Seattle, 11 dispensaries received shutdown warnings. In San Francisco, almost half of the city’s small number of state-licensed dispensaries received ... MOREA Lawsuit To Reclaim Property Rights From Prairie Dogs
by Michael Bastach. Attorneys representing property owners in Cedar City, Utah filed a lawsuit Thursday arguing that the federal government has overstepped its constitutional bounds by preventing residents from defending their property against a massive prairie dog infestation. “The federal government doesn’t have the authority to regulate a ... MOREGrover Norquist: One Hundred Years Of Tax Servitude
Happy birthday: The income tax is now 100 years old. In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified by three-fourths of the then-48 states. Stop me if you have heard this one, but the federal income tax was pushed by progressives who felt the rich should pay their fair share. They promised that only really rich people would have ... MORETax Freedom Day 2013 Is Five Days Later Than Last Year
The day you begin earning money for yourself. April 18 will be Tax Freedom Day, the day when Americans have worked
enough to pay all of their federal and state taxes for 2013 – a round
total of $4.22 trillion, according to an analysis done by the Tax Foundation. That's five days later than in 2012. Americans will pay more than $2.76 trillion in ... MOREJacob Sullum: The Perils Of Pushing Pot Prohibition
Will administration oppose hope and change? Three months ago, voters in Colorado and Washington
approved ballot initiatives aimed at legalizing the possession,
production, and distribution of marijuana. A month later, Attorney
General Eric Holder
said the Justice Department would settle on a response to this
historic development ... MOREGene Johnson: Effort Building To Change US Pot Laws
A federal pot tax? An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a hefty federal pot tax. While passage this year could be a
longshot, lawmakers from both parties have been quietly working on
several bills, the first of which Democratic Reps. Earl Blumenauer ... MOREJohn Fund: Let's Be Gone With The Wind
Efficient only as a bird killer. President Obama likes to talk about making sure “the biggest corporations pay their fair share.” Treasury secretary Tim Geithner calls for tax reform to close loopholes and subsidies. Budget hawks say federal spending must be curbed. Congress and federal environmental regulators claim they are doing ... MORE
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