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Paul Ryan Says Feds Shouldn’t Interfere With Legalized Medical Pot
KCBS ^ | September 7, 2012

Posted on 09/07/2012 6:59:04 PM PDT by Ken H

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS/AP) – Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan tells a Colorado television station that the federal government shouldn’t interfere with states that have legalized medical marijuana.

Ryan told KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs that he personally doesn’t approve of medical marijuana laws. But he said that states should have the right to choose whether to legalize the drug for medical purposes.

(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: commerceclause; medicalmarijuana; statesrights; tenthamendment
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To: Ken H

He’s right.


61 posted on 09/07/2012 8:12:03 PM PDT by ZULU (See: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=D9vQt6IXXaM&hd)
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To: Blue Ink
and Lortab, Oxycodone, Darvon, Percocet ——???

You are ridiculous.

62 posted on 09/07/2012 8:12:41 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Ken H

I agree with Ryan. Either you have states rights under a federal government or you do not. We have lost more rights and freedoms under the “War on Drugs” than we can bear as a free people.


63 posted on 09/07/2012 8:13:29 PM PDT by WMarshal (Free citizen, never a subject or a civilian)
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To: snarkytart

Yes they are.. and far more dangerous than pot.


64 posted on 09/07/2012 8:13:56 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: Ken H

Let the states decide what medicinal herbs their citizens can smoke. It’s their medical right.


65 posted on 09/07/2012 8:14:35 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Blue Ink

Grow up.

My dad died of cancer, and weed was the only thing that got him through the pain and nausea at the end.

Referring to a wonderful man, who flew 33 times ove the Reich in a freezing B-17, raised a family, and obeyed the law as a responsible home-owning citizen all his life as an “equally dirtbag criminal “patient” is about as low as one can go.

You are a hateful ignorant individual, who wouldn’t have been worthy to hold his hat.

Jagoff!


66 posted on 09/07/2012 8:16:25 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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To: Blue Ink
You’re behind the times. The blatantly illegal “medical marijuana” experiment has been a dismal failure in Los Angeles (home to three million Californians)...Every neighborhood that isn’t Beverly Hills has been invaded by these drug dens, and the increase in crime, decay and antisocial behavior is patently manifest.

Did it ever occur to you that maybe it's just that LA, itself, is a sh*thole full of anti-social criminals to begin with? I live in Nor Cal, and we haven't seen any problems with the medical marijuana dispensaries. My town actually banned the dispensaries, but people can still grow it, and I know quite a few who do - good, upstanding, productive members of society who have jobs and families.

Having said that, even your case in LA shows that the system is working as intended. In other words, LA tried out the MM thing, saw problems, and banned it, while other, less ridiculous communities tried it and it worked just fine. All the MM law does is remove the one-size-fits-all mentality of the insane drug laws. The fed should have nothing to say about any of it, if we actually followed the Constitution, and that wouldn't make it all legal, that would simply leave the decision to state and local governments AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE.
67 posted on 09/07/2012 8:16:53 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Kansas58

“signs must be posted in the home of anyone taking Thalidomide.”

This is very intriguing! Can you post where this requirement comes from?


68 posted on 09/07/2012 8:19:32 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Kansas58

>> Why do I care if my position makes some hippie happy?
>> On this issue, the “hippies” are RIGHT!

Why taint an otherwise good post with a reference to hippies?


69 posted on 09/07/2012 8:20:45 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: DBrow

The drug company, and that companies liability insurance carriers.

Another poster has provided a link that you might find helpful.


70 posted on 09/07/2012 8:23:33 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Emperor Palpatine
Sorry for the loss of your Dad. Thanks to him and others like my husband's Dad for their selfless service to this country in WWII.

My step Dad was a Korea and Vietnam vet... Master Sargent Air Force... He died in his early 60's. His heart was bad. Doctors said the stress of so many years of combat took it's toll. He use to tell me that the planes they had to get on during the Vietnam/Cambodian missions were so bad they would pretty much tie one on before their mission. They were flying and yes they were flying. Sorry to pierce the purity of some who think it's all about prim and proper, but these guys were balls to the wall and I don't fault any ONE of them that drank a bit of Jack Daniels or smoked a joint before going into what could be their last moment on earth. Flame away, anyone who denies this was the norm is a liar.

71 posted on 09/07/2012 8:24:18 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: Kansas58

I think I just read that there is move to stop using Percocet and the various codeine and acetaminophen compounds because the presence of high levels of acetaminophen was too dangerous.

I’ve never heard of kidney damage from marijuana, yet acetaminophen is available OTC.


72 posted on 09/07/2012 8:24:28 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: Ken H

The Feds keep marijuana on the class-1 substance list—or whatever it’s called—as justification for not relinquishing control to the States. This is the heart of the problem IMO.


73 posted on 09/07/2012 8:25:54 PM PDT by GSWarrior (Businessmen are more trustworthy than professors, politicians and preachers.)
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To: dalereed

It wasn’t good. It was all about taking out cartel rivals. What, you don’t think they’re that corrupt? Dig into Fast and Furious a bit more...


74 posted on 09/07/2012 8:25:59 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes sir, it was a politically smart thing to say. For the next few weeks that’s all that matters.

(from the article)
“Ryan said that the federal government shouldn’t interfere with states that have legalized medical marijuana.

“Ryan told KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs that he personally doesn’t approve of medical marijuana laws. But he said that states should have the right to choose whether to legalize the drug for medical purposes.

“Ryan said the issue would not be a priority for a Mitt Romney administration.”

From some of the thoughts expressed here, you’d think he had proposed putting road-kill hobos in school lunches.


75 posted on 09/07/2012 8:27:19 PM PDT by tumblindice (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Gator113

correct.

step 1 of hole filling: stop digging


76 posted on 09/07/2012 8:29:18 PM PDT by redlegplanner ( No Representation without Taxation)
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To: reformedliberal
The tylenol, acetaminophen damage can awful, to your liver.

Many OTC drugs are more dangerous than pot.

77 posted on 09/07/2012 8:29:32 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: GeronL
How about tobacco and booze?

Murder em all?

Reefer Madness was NOT a documentary!

God made cannabis.

God is good.

God is Love.

Keep your hate to yourself please.

78 posted on 09/07/2012 8:29:32 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a Barack 0b0tt0my!)
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To: antceecee

My dad used to tell me that when they landed after a mission and went to interrogation, the G-2 and group intel officers gave everyone three shots of whiskey.

Not only to relax them after flying through flak and cold for hours on end, but to loosen their tongues for the questioning, hehehe.


79 posted on 09/07/2012 8:30:27 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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To: rawcatslyentist

I know a lot of potheads

That is why I don’t like it

I never said anything about killing potheads, I was talking about the plants.


80 posted on 09/07/2012 8:32:43 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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