[andyk]

.Don’t think we need to add people stoned on pot to our problem with drinking and driving..jmho

I understand your concern, and there are lots of ways to respond to that - the most relevant probably that there are already laws in place in most locales that prohibit impaired driving.

However, my bigger point is to say that I have no problem with states handling this as they please. The federal government does not have the power to prohibit the individual intrastate use of a product or substance. They can no more constitutionally prevent you from using marijuana than they can prevent you from using a lightbulb manufactured within your own state. However, that's exactly what they're doing.

[goat granny]

I agree with you 100 percent, its not the feds business but the states. Only problem is drivers cross state lines. If one state allows, there is no way to contain it to only that state.. The commerce clause has been beaten to death by the feds. But the state can handle such problems much better than Washington...

I am tired of light bulbs, toilets, showers, tree removal, designated wet lands, EPA, BATF, Dept. of Education etc, etc, etc, being dictated to the states and its citizens.. The federal government could be cut in half by eliminating all the alphabet soup departments. Only need the Dept of Defense, the rest are just make do jobs and ways for the citizen to be hamstrung..

When I had the farm, there was 2 acres with nursery tree's. Next door and behind my property was a corn field. For some reason I went to the township office to get a plat of my land....where the nursery trees were was actually designated WET LANDS. Had a time getting that fixed. I was in the middle of farm land. God must love idiots he found so many jobs for them with the government..

(Sorry God, didn't mean to slur you) :O)