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Apparently not, i guess some politicians in California are intentionally trying to avoid getting out of the debt they are very well buried under.

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What exactly does supremacy mean though? Is a state required to enforce the federal law? If so then this makes the Arizona immigration law most interesting. Here you have a California court saying state and local government MUST enforce federal law. At the same time you have California cities saying it is wrong for a state to enforce federal laws.

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"Judge Chaffee ruled that cities are legally prohibited from passing land-use ordinances that violate state or federal law. Under the judge's reasoning, marijuana is still illegal under federal law, so land-use laws allowing medical marijuana dispensaries would be prohibited."This seems pretty damning but it also seems easy to get around. Think of a store like 7-11, they don't get a land use permit to sell gum, or milk, or soda. They get a permit that lets them operate a store that sells various things. If dispensaries got permits that let them work just like a store, then the permit wouldn't violate federal law, since it doesn't specifically call out marijuana.

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<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_clause&quot; rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_clause&lt;/a&gt;

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@beforen0wWell, Arnold is now proposing shutting down all welfare in the state because they have no money. So what do you think they're gonna do?Of COURSE they're gonna get rid of a tax-revenue stream and put more people in jail!/police departments make more money off of confiscation than they get from taxed weed

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And socialized revenues from the sales of their natural resources.Alaskans don't hate socialism. Or they'd give up their oil checks.

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Oi!The ruling doesn't just say that Lake Forest *can* shut them down, it basically says that independent of any other consideration, they could not legally give a zoning permit to a marijuana dispensary.It's not a matter of &quot;we'll let them be dry&quot;, but that no municipality would be able to be &quot;wet&quot;

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Inactive, that's cute... But totally wrong.In any case where state law or ordinance or regulation conflicts with a federal law, federal wins. It's not a squishy thing, it's pretty well set in stone. It has been since Andrew Jackson.DTY is correct, the judge is only ruling based on the realities of what the law dictates. California cannot make law which goes against federal law. Period.

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