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To: OldDeckHand

Well, I am a Libertarian and we need to go a LONG way towards getting the Federal Gov’t out of our lives.

The States can make individual drug laws as is going on in California and Oregon where there a levels of legality on Pot.
Get the Fed out, and save our tax dollars.

All rights not given to the Federal Gov’t are reserved to the States and the People. The Constitution does not give the Federal Gov’t the right to regulate drug use.

We only make drug lords rich with Prohibition.


9 posted on 05/05/2011 10:11:59 PM PDT by AmericanDave (Party like it is 1773...!!!)
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To: AmericanDave; Straight Vermonter
"The Constitution does not give the Federal Gov’t the right to regulate drug use."

Hey, does that Constitution thing give the Federal Government the right to regulate uranium enrichment? Just checking.

I understand the libertarian argument, and some of it is persuasive. And, a compelling case can be made for the legalization of some drugs, or at least a decriminalization.

Heroine, OTOH, is heroine. It's not a weed that used to grow naturally in the country. It's a wildly dangerous drug that is HIGHLY processed in a manner that is itself highly dangerous and toxic. And, virtually all of the heroine sold in this country is IMPORTED - the federal government CLEARLY has a right to say what is and what is not importable, do they not?

To say what Paul said in this country is IDIOTIC, and that alone should disqualify you from the White House. I doubt even most Democrats want to legalize heroine.

15 posted on 05/05/2011 10:19:21 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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