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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JR777" data-source="post: 3552939" data-attributes="member: 45725">You're still not getting it.Lying on the form is illegal. On this we can agree.What you're not grasping is that the legal status of marijuana is unknown when it comes to otherwise legal state users. Therefore it is unknown if someone is lying or not if they answer no.There is something called desuetude. If a law is conspicuously violated and yet goes conspicuously unprosecuted, as a matter of public policy, it is considered to be obsolete. It was just upheld by the supreme court in 2003, and it's been upheld in state supreme courts before that.There is no law in history that is more conspicuously violated or has gone more unprosecuted as a matter of official policy than the federal marijuana law. By publicly choosing not to enforce the law as it applies to state legal marijuana, the de facto state of affairs is that it no longer applies. Like I said, 20 years ago they would have had a strong case, but the ship has pretty much sailed. If it hadn't, commercial banks and multimillion dollar hedge funds wouldn't be diving head first into it. Like I said, the genie is out of the bottle, and it can no longer be put back in.</blockquote>