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You are not allowed to plant the seed according to federal law. If you do, you can be charged with possession. I think just four states of the 50 allow people to grow marijuana, but they have strict laws regulating this (like you have to be a non-profit, you have to operate a dispensary, you are only allowed to sell to medical marijuana patients, you pay taxes, etc). Nine other states make some provision for legalizing possession of the plant in small quantities for medicinal purposes but at the same time uphold that growing and selling are illegal across the board. No, it doesn’t make any sense.
Just yesterday we were discussing the discrepancy between federal and state laws. In the four states that have sanctioned MMPs, even people possessing marijuana for medical purposes reinforced by a doctor’s recommendation can be imprisoned and fined by the feds because the federal law does not acknowledge the plant’s medicinal value and purely considers it a narcotic. There was one case where a dispensary operator was ratted out by a county sheriff to the feds, and now faces life imprisonment. According to federal law, it is possible to face the death penalty under certain circumstances – over a plant!
I was looking at Supreme Court cases yesterday, and it looked like most of them were challenging the constitutionality of the 9th and 10th amendments on the grounds that they had committed a victimless crime. I don’t think anyone has been successful from this angle yet. Everything I’ve read has implied we have to rely on Congress to change the law.