week 9 EOC wall street journal opinion

Okay so, going on the subject of marijuana, we all know it’s illegal everywhere, no exceptions. And despite federal law two states have made it “okay” to smoke it. The problem with this is that like in a family of many children, the others opt it unfair and want to join in as well.  Regarding the article in the wall street journal, Obama has chosen to pass the law but at the same time ignore it, making the use of “medical’ marijuana okay, not legal but okay.  This in, my point of view, will end up like all the other vices our country suffers from. Eventually we will tolerate it in all 50 states and the American drug dealers will begin to be taxed for the exchange and production, or growth, of pot. I am under age and not allowed to be part of this whole vicious cycle. Unfortunately while in high school the trafficking of pot specifically was at an all-time high. I could name of 5 students that I could go to get “the stuff” at reasonable enough prices. The school, though they knew of the happenings, never took action, usually turning a blind eye unless reported. It went so far that during the few years I spent there the street across from the front gates became the rendezvous point for both the dealers and the smokers.

In the Wall Street the exact quote was given “Justice warns that it will intervene if it discovers that marijuana is flowing to children or being trafficked to states where it is still illegal, though under federal law it is still illegal in all states. The memo tells prosecutors to ignore even "large-scale, for-profit enterprises," which are usually targets for taxation.” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323324904579044771286022400.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet which brings us back to the present. It’s writing on the wall. It is flowing to our children and it is happening at a large scale, its going on nationwide. And how is this being addressed,” General Eric Holder says never mind all that, and Americans should mellow out about such legal nuances.”  This is coming straight from the horse’s mouth.University of Denver law professor Sam Kamin says if the administration doesn't act soon to sort out the federal-state conflict, it may be too late to do much.

"At some point, it becomes so prevalent and so many citizens will be engaged in it that it's hard to recriminalize something that's become commonplace," he says.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/29/marijuana-legalization_n_3521547.html