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Originally Posted by panerd
I saw that. The feds will only go after people in violation of both federal and state law. Meaning they respect the rights of the states to make the decision. Meaning there is no need for a federal drug policy. What am I missing with my logic?
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If we're to extrapolate this decision to enforcement of other federal drug rules (which would probably be wrong to do, but anyway), a "need" for a federal drug policy would still exist for the purposes of a) speaking to cases where state drug policy is silent or doesn't apply and b) overriding state drug policy where still applicable.
In reality each Administration changes the way it enforces certain rules (not just on drug policy) and eventually has a few showdowns with states regarding differences in enforcement on various policies.