One small step in the right direction, proves even your nemesis may have some value, and even thr broken clock may be correct, twice a day.
Legalize marijuana and within three generations, America will not have enough people fit to be soldiers or workers. Despite drug laws, drugs are available and rampant in inner city America for several generations. Their state of affairs about sums up legalized drug use.
Now all I have to do is come up with a disease that fits into the marijuana acceptable category. ;-)
The way to do it is to repeal the law, not order the law enforcers to ignore it.
Soon you get a patchwork of law, some enforced, some not, capricious and arbitrary, where your fate under the law comes down to fate and influence.
If Obama feels the fedgov should back off from enforcing cannabis laws in the states, he should write a bill striking down the elements of law he thinks are unjust, and champion that bill in congress.
Otherwise he can simply change his mind someday and order strict enforcement of all federal cannabis law, and direct whatever resources he wants to do it, or some future president can.
BS. Obama is about to put the states under the feds more and more each day.
Stopped reading right there, yes, after the first sentence. Political conservatives are not resistant to change. We are actually the biggest proponents of meaningful change. We believe in the Constitution, personal freedom, and limited government (same thing said three different ways), and forcing the fedgov to do likewise requires radical change.
This idiot's use of “conservative” is as daft as the self-contradictory meaning of modern term “liberal.” (The contradiction being that “liberals” are really statists).
Anyone so stupid as to make such a statement is not worth reading except possibly in an exercise of “know your enemy.”
In the land of the free you should be able to waste your life away smoking pot if you so choose, just as you should be free to pursue success through hard work and persistence.
Dopers are worthless.