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		doublescoop on Oct 11, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Credit-card firms are becoming reluctant regulator... No states enforce federal laws. The federal government does that. If there is no state law criminalizing cannabis use there it's legal in that state.

umanwizard on Oct 11, 2021 | [–]

No, the feds refusing to prosecute doesn’t make it legal. Federal crimes are crimes everywhere, even in states that don’t have the same crime on their statute books.

throwaway0a5e on Oct 11, 2021 | [–]

The locals generally enforce and investigate and then the feds prosecute.

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