i'm not making it sound like anything. i'm not making assumptions or predictions. i am waiting until something actually happens and then working with it accordingly.
ATF = alcohol, tobacco and firearms. marijuana doesn't fall into any of those categories.
how the world should work and how it actually works are two different things.
the "ATF" is actually the "BATFE" which is: "Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives"
they would be the ones to regulate weed since, like alcohol and tobacco, it is not considered "medicine" despite being used therapeutically for centuries, and even today.
yes. alcohol and tobacco are also "medicines" that are treated differently than any other drug which a doctor might prescribe. No, im not talking about homeopathic crystal power orgone energy faith healers, im talking about MD's who even today prescribe alcohol and tobacco for topical application, and for internal use.cannabis would be assigned to the BATFE for the same reasons the BATFE was created, and the same reasons it was placed within the treasury department.
REAL lawmen didnt want to waste their time chasing down small time tobacco smugglers (still happens today believe it or not) old gaffers with a moonshine still in the woods (still happens today) and knuckleheads who goof off with guns and blasting caps.
the BATFE is a tax collecting organization not lawmen. when somebody gets out of hand with bootlegging of booze or smokes its the FBI Customs and local cops who rack the case, and when somebody gets busted for using a gun in a crime, the BATFE is nowhere in sight. real crime is a job for real lawmen, not two bit, dingbat barney fife, needledicked, useless FBI academy washouts.
the BATFE exists solely to enforce bureaucratic fiats and collect taxes from otherwise law abiding persons who dared to try and make a couple bucks without giving the "Revenuers" their cut. the BATFE are tax collectors with guns, nothing more. regulation of cannabis would be, like booze and tobacco, just a revenue generating program for the feds, and like booze tobacco guns and yes, even explosives, a tarbaby that real federal lawmen dont want to touch.
in breif, the BATFE's job is simple:
If the feds cannot ban it, they send it off to the BATFE and they will tax it into submisssion with byzantine regulations and usury permits fees taxes and levies.
For Our Own Good.