There are some state marijuana legalization initiatives on a few state ballots this year, including Arizona. Of course, the usual 1930s-era retro hysteria about weed comes out, courtesy of the feds having broadcast it ever since that era. Hey, it’s a plant, folks. Right, and of course it ought to be legal. We all know that. One thing we need to keep in mind is state legalization is a leap forward, but we’re not home yet. The feds still enforce that law and guess what that means? It means that your state might allow you to possess weed legally, but the feds don’t. And who enforces most of the firearms laws? The feds. See what I’m saying? You can be in violation of firearms laws if you have, grow, or use weed. Just saying, keep that in mind. That, friends, is why we cannot just say legalize it on a state level and figure the work is done. It isn’t. Because we know states rights is a figment of the imagination and it is the feds that ultimately rule. We need states with the guts to say marijuana legalization does not lose you other rights as given in the Bill of Rights. When rights become something so precarious as lost with the smoking of a plant used by humanity for some thousands of years, we live in a tyranny.

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