Tobacco kills 10,000's of people every year while there is not one documented case of marijuana killing anyone [Other then people who were murdered by the police for either using or selling marijuana]

Last but not least many legal scholars will tell you that ALL the Federal laws that regulate marijuana and any other drug are unconstitutional per the 9th and 10th Amendments in the Bill of Rights.

The US Constitution does not give the Feds the power to regulate or control any drug and therefor all those laws are unconstitutional per the 9th and 10th Amendment which reserve those rights for the States and the people.

A good example that backs up this logic is the Federal government attempt to make booze illegal.

Since the Constitution does not give the Feds the power to regulate booze, the 9th and 10th Amendment forbid the Feds from regulating liquor.

And of course the Feds passed those laws the legal and constitutional way by passing the 16th Amendment which made liquor illegal.

Last time I checked the Feds had not passed a constitutional amendment giving them the power to regulate drugs.

Source

State and federal marijuana laws collide

Patients who use marijuana in states where it's legal for medicinal puproses are getting into trouble under federal law.

By Oren Dorell, USA TODAY

People who use marijuana for medicinal purposes in states where it is legal are being penalized by the federal government because pot is still illegal under U.S. law.

At Denver unemployment offices, medical users fired for failing a drug test are denied unemployment benefits, says lawyer Kimberlie Ryan, who represents some of those applicants.

In California, Jim Lacy, 60, who has an arthritic hip and uses medical marijuana for pain relief, says he has had his stash confiscated and been threatened with arrest at Border Patrol checkpoints near his Jacumba home.

In Las Vegas, N.M., cancer patient Robert Jones, 70, says he has been notified that his federal rent subsidy is being revoked because he is a medical-marijuana user.

Marijuana dispensary operator Steve DeAngelo of Harborside Health Center in Oakland says his federally insured bank dumped his account because he deals in an illegal drug.

Problems occur at airport security checkpoints in medical marijuana states. Baggage screeners, who work for the federal Transportation Security Administration, turn medical marijuana users over to local police for prosecution, according to Ed Skvarna, chief of the Burbank airport police.

"It's outrageous, but the government's cannabis policies are outrageous," says Bill Panzer, an Oakland lawyer who co-wrote the nation's first medical-marijuana law, approved by California voters in 1996.

The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy website says smoking marijuana "is not considered modern medicine." It says the drug has a high potential for abuse, the smoke can be as harmful as cigarettes, and it has not been proven effective under the standards of the Food and Drug Administration.

The Justice Department does not usually prosecute medical-marijuana users, but officials of other federal agencies say they are required to treat pot as an illegal drug.

"We're charged with enforcing federal law," says Border Patrol spokeswoman Kelly Ivahnenko.

Landlords "may exercise discretion" in deciding whether to evict tenants who use medical marijuana, says Helen Kanovsky, general counsel for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. New Mexico HUD administrator Mandy Griego says HUD's policy is that pot, "for medicinal purposes or not," is prohibited at HUD-subsidized properties, and termination for possession "must be applied consistently for all tenants."

Where medical marijuana is legal, and when the law went into effect:

* Not yet in effect

Source: The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws