Active-duty troops Trump sent to LA now just getting deployed wherever

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Have you ever wondered what constitutes the “greater Los Angeles area?” Would it surprise you that the Trump administration thinks it includes the Coachella Valley, some 130 miles away?

The Trump administration’s bogus interpretation of “greater Los Angeles” has led to California National Guard members, who have been illegally deployed by President Donald Trump, helping the Drug Enforcement Agency conduct drug busts—two hours from Los Angeles.

In a Monday court filing, California attorneys reported National Guard members in the Coachella Valley on June 17, helping with cannabis raids. Rightly so, the attorneys said that this didn’t fall under the Trump administration’s reasons for deploying troops in Los Angeles to quell protests.

The DEA deployed 315 National Guard members to raid cannabis farms “due to the magnitude and topography of this operation.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/24/2329835/-Active-duty-troops-Trump-sent-to-LA-now-just-getting-deployed-wherever

[Dulcinea]

1. Isn't cannabis legal in California? nt

[underpants]

2. That's Stare law. It's still a class 2 (I think) Federally

As I understand it dispensaries have to be cash only businesses because they can’t have bank accounts that travel over state lines. My dispensary takes debit cards now but I don’t think they can open a bank account

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

3. Still illegal federally

And federal law > state law. Feds can enforce it even though the state chooses not too. Its still schedule 1, the efforts to reschedule seems to have stalled. The process should have started sooner so it would have been completed before the current administration got in.