MrB Posted May 23, 2014 Posted May 23, 2014 I probably wouldn't have had any idea if it wasn't for a TV show called "Bullshit" that went on a couple of years ago. Diverse, you could call the topics.Anyway, i'm guessing the federal laws are less strict today then they were a few years ago, but as far as i know you can still get prosecuted under federal law for something that is legal in your state. Weird as hell.B!
hindsight Posted May 23, 2014 Posted May 23, 2014 (edited) MrB, What I learned about the U.S. civil war was that it was about the rights of the individual states vs the power of the central federal government--as much as it was about the abolition of non-caucasian slave labor in the agriculturally-dependent southern portion of the country. The northern industrial pro-federal coalition of states won the war, but all states still retained some of their rights. The result is this system where there seems to me to be conflicting jurisdiction at times. Decades ago, an American friend of mine was glad to be arrested for illegal possession of marijuana by city police who handed him a $10 fine in Ann Arbor City, Michigan. He said if federal police had arrested him, he could have spent a few years in jail. Someone else can probably explain this better, but it does seem unusual to us. Edited May 23, 2014 by hindsight
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