marijuana offenders are the prison companies´ bread & butter.. and their not going to back down that easily.. and they have $1 trillion in bribes to change whatever laws they have to in order to gain more "customers"...

Can the government "preempt" the states' regulatory systems -- that is, not just raid marijuana stores if they choose to, but prevent the state from exempting any growers or distributors or sellers under state law?

Constitutionally, no - but that hasn't stopped the Federal government in the past 150 years.

Do the state laws run afoul of our government's treaty obligations, particularly the 1961 Single Convention on Drugs?

(1) The Federal government cannot constitutionally grant itself additional powers via international treaties, although, again, that hasn't stopped them from claiming otherwise for many decades.  Only treaties that conform to the Constitution should be considered legitimate, and most of the ones made in these days do not, since they require the Congress to assume powers that have not been delegated to it by the States.

(2) Treaties are transitory things; history is littered with hundreds or thousands of broken and disregarded treaties.  They are only good for as long as all parties continue to abide by them.  (Kind of like how the Constitution hasn't really done much to restrain the Federal government over the last 150 years.)

Are Amendment 64 and I-502 going to federal court? What will the courts say?

The Feds will undoubted take this to court - their courts.  And of course, their courts are ultimately going to rule for them and against the people.

The United States aren't really a democracy, regardless of what the politicians claim all the time; the "will of the people" only counts when it coincides with what those who consider themselves our masters want.  Neither are we a confederated republic, as the original Founders intended.  Our "representatives" in Rome-on-the-Potomac only represent those who help them stay in power, and most of them barely restrain their contempt for "the people."

The real question is, how much longer are we going to accept or tolerate this?  The only way we are ever going to end this abominable "war on drugs" is to end it ourselves.  My hat is off to the people of Colorado and Washington for taking the first step, and I truly hope that many more States will follow their lead - and soon.

Just ask the American Indians about broken treaties; our Government had no problem breaking them!

Or are we to have people for laws? 

The idea that the citizens cannot enact social policies to correct the abuses of government goes against the very grain of what America is all about.  The people seeking to free the weed aren’t trying to enslave citizens, to take away people’s rights.  They’re trying to expand human rights and freedom.  If the drug law reform movement sought to bring harm to people as the government does with the CSA and Single Treaty, it couldn’t exist as a popular movement. 

Prior to the Civil War, there were states that voted against slavery, and there were those in the non-industrialized South that embraced and championed human servitude, much like the situation existing now among states rejecting, or accepting medical, and legalized, regulated marijuana.  Interestingly enough, the slave states are still the ones most likely to favor prohibition. 

Abraham Lincoln experienced problems ending slavery that were similar to those that modern drug reform activists face.  For instance, Lincoln approached the Pope in Rome to get him to renounce slavery throughout the world; but Pius IX, evil bastard that he was, flatly refused.  And as a sovereign national entity, and a signatory of the Single Treaty, the Vatican still takes the side of the prohibitionists.  Some things, like immoral leadership, never change.

We can’t expect the oppressors to show any guts when it comes to remedying the damage they’ve caused.  Hanging onto power and wealth is their first priority.  The power of the President to uphold the law is betrayed by bad law, and in such a case, it becomes Barack Obama’s duty to seek a moral and legitimized solution to overcoming that which bleeds to anemia the spirit and loyalty of American citizens.

We asked our President in an open forum and he laughed us off and now even though it is always the top subject in every public forum he ignores them. We petitioned the government with the most supported petitions at they're site and all we got was the standard propaganda of bought science and skewed statistics from the federal bureaucracy that is required by law to keep marijuana from being legalized. We have contacted our legislators until all have pre-written responses for answers but no action.

Now we have legalized marijuana by a vote of the people and still our government refuses to even debate the subject.

Didn't we once revolt over a government that ignored it's people?

The thing people are missing regarding the International Treaty issue is that we have globalist president in office.  If Obama goes to the UN for his war powers, instead of Congress, he will most likely take his cues from that Yans retard in charge of the INCB for his drug war.  This problem is that Fed=world government and Obama is doing all he can to make the UN our governing body instead of the Constitution.

Americans are going to have to fight back against the Feds and their one world government agenda if their is to be any marijuana peace.  We need pro-marijuana lawyers to reek havoc on the federal government.  We need people charged will marijuana offenses to go all the way instead of plea bargaining.  We need to find lawyers willing to take a jury nullification stance in a marijuana trial.  This has to be the norm.  We need to make a mockery of the federal government and their oppression against a majority of citizens.  We need more stories exposing Federal drug warmongers to get the general public against the Fed, not just marijuana consumers.  The Fed needs to be put in jail.

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