What might the Feds do in immediate future about legal pot?

[PufPuf23]

Session wants to go there. Pot is a good political issue for the GOP and also could provide plenty of diversion in MSM.

I am in California and have been in a pot shop in a rural county 4X since legalization. Currently undegoing chemo for lymphoma and bought a vapor pen and then gone back for cartridges.

Yesterday AM went in the pot shop. Then check you at the door and put you on a database using your ID. The shop has gotten busier and has more product. Licensing of various pot related businesses is in the local news every day but active shops are few.

Anyway behind me were two ordinary guys, slightly scruffy. They pulled out their IDs about 3 feet from me and were ATF agents. The gatekeeper fellow (guy who guarded door and checked if you were on database or needed to be entered into database) directed them to a couch in a lounge area and went into the back of the shop to find someone of more authority. He came out and said something to the ATF agents and resumed checking folks in at the door. The ATF agents were still on the couch waiting for someone and thumbing through various magazines when I left.

Wonder if something is up or if that was normal. Seemed to be a surprise in the legal pot shop.

[Eyeball_Kid]

1. It's a losing battle for the feds. If they don't know it, they'll soon find out.

The cat's out of the bag. The entire west coast and several other states now know what Sessions wanted to keep from them. Cannabis just isn't the boogie man that it's made out to be. It's way safer than alcohol AND tobacco, and now, there can be no argument about it, since cannabis is being used recreationally in several states, with no upticks in ANY kinds of legal or medical events throughout the states in which it's legal. This fact, which is verified every day, shows that Sessions' big obsession is either the product of abject ignorance or a political card game. But it has nothing to do with public safety or public health.

ATF ought to be concentrating on illegal gun/assault rifle sales and the opioid epidemic. That's where they can do the most good for all of us. Chasing pot users and the legit cannabis industry is only going to get a whole lot of people pissed off, and will eventually cost ATF and the DOJ a ton of money that they'll have to spend in court, contesting state laws.

[PufPuf23]

2. I share your perceptions about pot, it is a waste for the Feds to bother.

That is why I was surprised at the interchange with the ATF agents at the pot shop I observed yesterday AM.

Searched internet for - ATF California legal marijuana - and nothing of great interest.

I can see how Feds might want to collect a tax.

Plus the ATF guys seemed to be undercover agents based on how they looked and bearing. Seemed to be a surprise to the shop.