Schedule 1 Classification being Directly Challenged!

OldPhart said:

Just a dumb question, what would it take and is it even possible to get something on the ballot to allow a popular vote to just flat remove any federal regulation from the equation? Only problem is that it would need to be a hands off policy, with the basic right for home growing, not some 1,000 page bunch of BS laws. But I can guess how it would end up, probably 4,000 pages pork...

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OregonBorn said:

And at the same time legal rec MJ grows are being challenged in Oregon and Colorado in the courts under some anti-racketeering/RICO statutes put in place during (you guessed it!) the Nixon administration.

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A couple of Oregon landowners have accused marijuana operations on two neighboring properties of violation of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

A couple of rural Oregon landowners are accusing their neighbors of operating marijuana-growing operations in violation of federal anti-racketeering laws.
The lawsuit filed by Rachel and Erin McCart of Beavercreek, Ore., accuses 43 defendants — including neighboring property owners as well as affiliated marijuana growers and retailers — of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
Because it remains illegal under federal law, Oregon’s “regulatory scheme” for marijuana does not protect the defendants from RICO charges for conspiring to grow, process and sell the controlled substance, according to the plaintiffs.
“Given the strict federal prohibitions against each of those purposes, defendants knew these purposes could only be accomplished via a pattern of racketeering,” the complaint said. “In furtherance of that goal, defendants pooled their resources and achieved enterprise efficiency that no one defendant could have achieved individually.”
Beginning in late 2014, the defendants began installing equipment to produce marijuana on two properties neighboring the McCarts, who own nearly 11 acres of fenced pastures and forestland, the complaint said.
While the neighborhood was once quite and safe, the marijuana operations have drawn unwanted visitors who litter nearby properties, play loud music, ride loud all-terrain vehicles and harass landowners, the plaintiffs claim.

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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The 10^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last month found that ranchers in Colorado alleged sufficient damages to invoke the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act in their suit against neighbors for growing marijuana.

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OregonBorn said:

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, we're finally on our own...

Emperor Nixon made damn sure to cement MJ as Schedule 1 in his war on hippies. He did the same with heroin in his war on negros. That way the police could arrest them on easy to prosecute charges of possession. Then he packaged it all as The War on Drugs. Anyone that would not vote for him, he went to war with. His legacy continues. The War on Drugs continues. Until congress is Democrat controlled again, it is not likely to change. The more likely scenario is when 34 states allow for legal or medical MJ, only then will MJ be moved to a schedule II classification. Reason being that is 2/3 of the states, and enough to pass a constitutional amendment for medical MJ.

If Tzar Trump is impeached AND removed from office, Pence is not likely to change the status of any drugs in the DEA list. Seemingly there is never going to be an argument to convince the DEA, the Rep. controlled congress, or a Rep. president regardless of the medical patents applied for cannabis, including by other US government agencies.

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OregonBorn said:

And at the same time legal rec MJ grows are being challenged in Oregon and Colorado in the courts under some anti-racketeering/RICO statutes put in place during (you guessed it!) the Nixon administration.

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A couple of Oregon landowners have accused marijuana operations on two neighboring properties of violation of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

A couple of rural Oregon landowners are accusing their neighbors of operating marijuana-growing operations in violation of federal anti-racketeering laws.
The lawsuit filed by Rachel and Erin McCart of Beavercreek, Ore., accuses 43 defendants — including neighboring property owners as well as affiliated marijuana growers and retailers — of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
Because it remains illegal under federal law, Oregon’s “regulatory scheme” for marijuana does not protect the defendants from RICO charges for conspiring to grow, process and sell the controlled substance, according to the plaintiffs.
“Given the strict federal prohibitions against each of those purposes, defendants knew these purposes could only be accomplished via a pattern of racketeering,” the complaint said. “In furtherance of that goal, defendants pooled their resources and achieved enterprise efficiency that no one defendant could have achieved individually.”
Beginning in late 2014, the defendants began installing equipment to produce marijuana on two properties neighboring the McCarts, who own nearly 11 acres of fenced pastures and forestland, the complaint said.
While the neighborhood was once quite and safe, the marijuana operations have drawn unwanted visitors who litter nearby properties, play loud music, ride loud all-terrain vehicles and harass landowners, the plaintiffs claim.

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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The 10^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last month found that ranchers in Colorado alleged sufficient damages to invoke the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act in their suit against neighbors for growing marijuana.

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stewart169 said:

I love how its all Nixon or Bush or Trump at fault. Never a Carter or Clinton or Bammy. A few insignificant whiners in a small forum like a phone booth all agreeing with each other and it means nothing. Love it.

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