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Re:Delaware will become the 22nd state to legalize recreatio... by toomuchtodo on Sunday April 23, 2023 @06:56PM (#35681555)
Caveat is Congress enjoined the DOJ from enforcing against medical marijuana use. Get a medical card (suuuuuuuper easy) and you’ve derisked. Sucks to have to hack around stupidity wrt federal policy on marijuana, but This Is America. It also reduces the tax you pay (typically, ymmv based on state) vs recreational purchases.

https://www.mpp.org/policy/federal/are-consumers-or-cannabis...

> There are some exceptions. In each fiscal year since 2015, Congress has included provisions in appropriations acts that prohibit the U.S. Department of Justice from using funds to prevent states from “implementing their own laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.” In effect, Congress prevents the DOJ from enforcing federal law in medical marijuana states. Courts have held up the provisions, and federal prosecutions of state-licensed businesses effectively stopped when it went into effect. However, those same protections haven’t been extended to adult-use (recreational) program participants, who remain at risk.

(not legal advice, not an attorney, not your attorney)

Re:Delaware will become the 22nd state to legalize recreatio... by kube-system on Sunday April 23, 2023 @07:05PM (#35681620)
There are some federal forms that ask about drug use and will disqualify you for use of marijuana. For example, employment forms and firearm background checks. And if you lie, they are still enforcing those laws. So while you may not go to prison for smoking weed, you might go to prison for smoking weed while doing something else that is regulated.
Re:Delaware will become the 22nd state to legalize recreatio... by benatkin on Sunday April 23, 2023 @08:08PM (#35682091)
Good, I appreciate their help with legalizing marijuana.

We have to figure out how to regulate it rather than making it illegal.

For instance, minors should be protected from it*, but medical marijuana must be available to minors with certain medical conditions.

And DUIs must be prevented. That includes employment forms for operating heavy equipment.

Those legalizing and those still fighting the racist drug war share some problems.

* and also protected from harmful law enforcement practices

Re:Delaware will become the 22nd state to legalize recreatio... by dragonwriter on Sunday April 23, 2023 @09:39PM (#35682744)
> Caveat is Congress enjoined the DOJ from enforcing against medical marijuana use. Get a medical card (suuuuuuuper easy) and you’ve derisked

Caveat to the caveat is that DOJ keeps pushing the limit on the medical marijuana prosecution prohibition, and that in California (and the rest of the Ninth Circuit), the controlling case law is that the prohibition only applies to strict compliance with state medical use rules, and that even minor technical violations (even in states that also allow non-medical use) allows federal prosecution (the First Circuit last year established a slightly different rule).