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Another incremental bit of federal crackdown on pot dispensaries in Colorado<\/b><\/p>\n

This is a weird one. The Feds should<\/i> be seeking to get rid of medical marijuana shops, under existing drug laws. Instead, they're targeting ones they deem to be too close to schools.<\/p>\n

Which sounds like a zoning issue — and Colorado state<\/i> law takes that into account. But selling pot within a certain distance of schools triggers additional federal penalties, so I guess there's some vague rationale for it.<\/p>\n

Whether our federal tax dollars are best spent pursuing this kind of activity is another matter.<\/p>\n

This whole mess is another example of cross-purposes in federalism vs. states rights. I suspect that most conservatives — the ones always talking about how we have too much central government and the states should be able to set their own policies in a variety of ways — are whole-heartedly behind the hardly-beloved Feds cracking down on dispensaries, even when legal in a state (and even when that legality is a direct result of popular referendum). Whereas most liberals (cough), who usually push for a uniform federal policy to trump states are the ones crying out for states rights here. #ddtb<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tColorado medical-pot dispensaries to get letters from feds saying they're too close to schools – The Denver Post<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFederal prosecutors in Colorado made their strongest move to date against the state\u001bs medical-marijuana industry Thursday, sending letters to 23 dispensaries ordering them to close. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Another incremental bit of federal crackdown on pot dispensaries in Colorado This is a weird one. The Feds should be seeking to get rid of medical marijuana shops, under existing drug laws. Instead, they're targeting ones they deem to be too close to schools. 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