The bush of freedom won't be refreshed
by digby
I wrote about more dumb pot prohibition in my piece at Salon this morning:
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.”
It’s funny how right-wingers always leave out the manure line, isn’t it? But that’s the real quote.
Unfortunately, unlike the tree of liberty, the marijuana bush of freedom will not be allowed refreshment of any kind if the federal government has its way. The Bureau of Reclamation, the agency that manages federal water distribution from its network of waterways and dams, announced last week that no water under their purview could be used for marijuana cultivation. Yes, a state may have foolishly allowed its deluded population into voting to legalize the growing of a plant but there is no reason the federal government has to agree to water it. And they won’t. read on ...
It's more incoherent federal policy on pot. Apparently various agencies are just going about making policies ad hoc without any guidance from the DOJ.
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