And yet a large chunk of Google employees and executives enjoy all of the freedoms provided to them in the state of California, including legal marijuana.
And regardless, plenty of large tech companies have blanket policies of avoiding controversial markets. Amazon does not sell ammo and many gun accessories (e.g. magazines). They don't sell porn either as far as I know.
Do you not see the contradiction in this statement?
> Medical marijuana is effectively legal at the federal level in states where it is legal. The federal government, via the appropriations bill has not allocated any funding to prosecuting these crime. More recent case law has clarified the meaning of this, it explicitly forbids prosecuting these crimes in states where medical marijuana is legal. In a number of cases where the accused was charged and plead guilty, prosecution was later stopped(and hundreds of thousands in cash, and precious metals that were seized, were all returned) because of this.
Which completely agrees with the point I'm making. It's still against the law, it's just that some states are refusing to enforce it. This is not the same thing as something being legal. This is not just pedantic quibbling, it has real consequences. The constitution forbids persecution for illegal actions so long as they were legal at the time they were committed. But cannabis isn't legal. Which means that if the attitude towards cannabis changes, it is possible for a future administration to persecute everyone that bought or sold pot. Individuals like you an I may not care very much about this possibility, but the shareholders and executives of multi billion dollar companies unsurprisingly have a different mindset.
Unless you're a federal employee. If you're a federal employee, marijuana use is prohibited, even if it is legal in the state where you reside, since it remains a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substance Act (CSA). As I understand it, under the CSA, doctors cannot issue prescriptions for marijuana use
That said, I'm glad that Steam took a permissive approach to its marketplace in allowing controversial games like Postal and Hatred on its platform. I think saying "fuck it" and allowing porn gives them a decent amount of leeway to keep the rest of their platform permissive.