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charliehall
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“This should be illegal, acc. to federal law, to make such a law -if it isn’t already.”

I guess you must not live in the US because you seem to have no clue about how the federal system works in the US. The federal government has no power to make it illegal for a state or local government to pass a law. In most cases any federal law, however, would pre-empt any state or local laws, and that is the case here.

“Funny, the NYPD has a terrrorist task force. As far as I know there is No city law outlawing terrorism – Nor did any federal agency give them permission to investigate possible terrorists on their own, only to be part of the JTTF. How could they waste taxpayers money on enforcing federal law?”

NYPD works closely with federal law enforcement agencies; just to give one example, they and the FBI jointly stopped 4 people who were planning to blow up two synagogues in my neighborhood. But the state or local government agencies need permission to do this; they are not permitted to be freelancers.

“Police Depts. can enforce Federal law if they choose to, but by Pot they seem unwilling to.”

Local police departments can only enforce federal law with permission of the appropriate federal law enforcement agency.

“Really? So with a Script -I can plant and grow Opium and I won’t be breaking any law like I can with Pot? I don’t think so!”

You would need a license from the FDA to produce opiates, and like any prescription drugs there would be very strict supervision of the manufacturing process. The same is true of cocaine, which is also a legal prescription drug. Not all opiates are legal; for example, heroin has the same status as marijuana.