: yes, but... >> kroft: and all of those people are violating federal law. >> kamin: exactly.t's the really strange thing is that we have this, you know, sort of hundreds of dispensaries servicing as many as 100,000 people, and every transaction that occurs is a federal crime, and every... all the manufacturing of the product, from the growing of it to the making of the products and everything else. all of those are serious federal crimes. >> kroft: even though the state of colorado has passed a constitutional amendment allowing it. >> kamin: exactly. the federal government sees it as a serious crime. they say, "we know that california and 16 other states, the district of columbia, we know you guys think it's medicine. it's not. we hear that you want to legalize it. you can't. we can't make you undo your statutes, but we can sure come in and prosecute your citizens that are violating federal law." >> kroft: but they haven't. >> kamin: but they haven't. >> kroft: and there's a reason for that-- some might call it the triumph of the marketplace. the federal government doesn't ha

the reality is angie kamin mentioned that it's been since the 96 act this was done. i'll remind everybody that 96 act was written 60 years after the 34 act and congress did know about the event. there is a lot done in the 80s and 90s on the internet. i would maintain the statute does address the internet and i think it would be helpful for listeners to lenders and that in the event you get past this first amendment argument and in the event the fcc goes down at 706, which it did they probably should, the reality is the fcc was given the tools by congress to address all of this. and i would like you to maybe educate the listeners on the fact that in the event the court strikes down the rationale put forward by the sec, all is not lost. you could go back and address these things as they been done before. i feel like everybody is tiptoeing around the fact the fcc got itself into this box by basically defining what eng rightly points out dissent in over i.t. is somehow a lead their grasp and they sort of scrambled around the edges, looking for provisions of law that they