In the spring of 2011 the State of Delaware, after a long hard won battle, voted to legalize medical marijuanna. This meant that finally thousands of people suffering from chronic and incurable diseases and chronic pain sufferers would finally have legal access to a fully natural, non addictive medicine to treat their conditions. A whole system had been devised for the growth, distribution and sale of medical marijuanna. The actual start and availability was to be around june of this year. Not everyone was pleased with this wonderful plan, especially law enforcement, but it was passed by the legislature here in Delaware to much rejoicing….but hold the phone folks.
I was at the local grocerie store tonite reading the Delaware News Journal sunday edition which at $3.00 is way outside my price range. On the front page was an article stating the following.
It seems that our beloved state legislators and governor, Jack Marcal have wimped out in the eleventh hour and succombed to pressure from the feds. The federal govt. maintains excessively harsh penalties for the possesion, sale and manufacture of marijuanna and is in no way interested in state law. They have threatened to step in and enforce those draconian laws should the system of dispensories(refered to as COMPASSION CENTERS in DE) open their doors for business. What has happened to states rights? Why does the federal machine have the right to tell individual states what to do and how to do it? So much for land of the free I guess. Delaware was the first state to ratify the Declaration of Independance….bringing forth the Constitution of the United States…so in these days when that document is being reduced to a thing of the past, is it any wonder that we are falling victim to that avaricious federal machine? Keep your eyes open folks….this all may be coming to a town near you.
Jim Youngbird and Friends 