Senator John Thune: Federal Solution To State Medical Marijuana Laws In Hands Of State, Not Congress

Senator John Thune’s office had me come install a TV mount for them and while there I asked a question. I got a letter in response that wasn’t a form letter at all. Below is the recording I made of my phone call to the state Attorney Generals office. I am also contacting the governor with the same inquiry. I already expect their answer will result in me seeking a judicial ruling due to the totality of circumstances involved in this state but most states would need the same thing. Three branches of government folks, all three are needed. State marijuana laws violating federal law is anarchy, destructive of federalism, and violating patients private property rights. This needs fixed.

I expect the AG to say the state is being negligent, but not until I sue. This inquiry is a polite formality notifying the AG office of an opportunity to issue guidance to the extent they desire. The Governor’s office per Senator Thune’s advice will be issued the same inquiry. Finally, I expect this to be resolved either through a medical cannabis board procedure or a lawsuit. Either way Senator Thune is right.

The South Dakota medical cannabis board emailed me in 2021 saying the opposite, that it wasn’t the states problem. https://weedpress.wordpress.com/2022/01/24/south-dakota-department-of-health-emails-weedpress/

Senator Thune is right and the board is wrong.

I obviously know that, because I have always approached it as a state issue.

I keep telling people it’s not the DEA’s fault, and it’s certainly not Congress’ fault.

Congress created the remedy in 1970.

Congress has no idea who will use it, why they will use it, or why they won’t use it.

Sure, 1970 was a while ago, and everyone has forgotten what it says or what it means by now.

It was meant to be flexible, but people are not flexible.

But, it’s your state that is at fault.

And apparently those experts issuing advice at the medical cannabis program offices don’t yet know the very laws they’ve been tasked with regulating. This isn’t unique. No state in the country except the states I have worked in has figured this out. I don’t know why, or care, but I’m going to point this out in full with the appropriate authorities and institutions and am not merely requesting resolution but will demand by all legal means necessary up to and including lawsuits to the appeals courts and have planned this project for seventeen years I’m not playing around. Tell the truth: state endorsement of federally illegal marijuana programs is entrapping millions into being federal criminals losing funding, healthcare access, hospice access, and children, and more, because of state failure to address what Senator Thune just clarified is explicitly a state problem. Congress provides the solution. Why is only Iowa using that solution found in 21 USC S 822(d)? Inquiring minds and lawyers are too busy fixing this problem to ask why nobody in power or on regulatory boards yet has. Maybe marijuana people fear federal oversight? Unregulated marijuana profits aren’t large enough to fund activism needed to protect patients they’re profiting off of? States like Colorado reportedly failing to provide enough resources to test marijuana products are resulting in unsafe marijuana being consumed by patients dulled into thinking oversight is adequate? What is going on doesn’t matter to me, it’s what isn’t going on that Senator Thune is pointing to that WeedPress has pointed to for 17, years…it’s no longer exhausting. The end is near. Federal legalization will come as all parties for and against marijuana agree to sustain this medicine research it open it up to honest discourse and no more fake science federal exemption applications from states nationwide as Congress intended and still intends needs implemented. Anything less is just drug dealing criminality endorsed by states with monopoly mafias winning and patients made criminals under federal law losing. Also, what about gun rights? Can marijuana patients not protect their families from assault, murder, home invasion? What is America doing to good governance?