Rejoice Libertarians! The one stronghold keeping American from freedom is being razed. Tomorrow the IRS, EPA, NEA, DHS, TSA, etc will all be sent home.
Cannabis oil is a scam.
It’s sold as a cure all.
Truly from the depths of Hell comes this scam on hurting people.
People like Rep. Fleming don’t care until it hits a loved one. Remember Lynn Nofziger, the Reagan staffer? He had a battlefield conversion when his daughter got cancer and need marijuana to help ease the side effects of chemo. THEN it was ok.
***The three-page bill***
Must be a Republican bill. A DEM bill would have three pages of the same thing plus 2000 pages of special interest pork.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Beware!
Regardless what FDR's activist justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress's Commerce Clause powers in Wickard v. Filburn, federal laws criminalizing mariquana would apply only to interstate trade, imo, not to intrastate trade. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from pre-FDR era Supreme Court case opinions where justices not only clarified that the states have never delegated to Congress, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate commerce, but also that the states have likewise never granted Congress the specific power to regulate intrastate agriculture.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.r
Note that there is nothing stopping the states from amending the Constitution to grant Congress the specific power to regulate intrastate marijuana production if that is what the states want.
Of course- a drugged up, stoned populace is a controllable populace. Keep’em stoned and happy and they don’t give a damn about anything else. Personally- I think druggies should be given ALL the drugs they want-free- let’em OD and be done with it.Collect all the confiscated drugs- have a stadium where the addicts could come indulge until they dropped then call a waste disposal system. Repeat weekly.
There are a lot of high paying jobs in the oil and gas industry in CO right now. Just sayin'.
This entire propaganda piece is written as if the cannabis oil has controlled her seizures, is the only thing that could work.
It waits til the last sentence to tell the truth:
“they obtained a medical marijuana card that let them place an order for a batch cannabis oil, in hopes it will control Anna’s seizures”
They have no idea if it will even help.
This is sad exploitation of a family, using the daughter’s unfortunate condition to exploit and scam them.
Or it’s all a scam including the family, as has often been the case in propaganda pieces for “medical marijuana” but I am accepting it on face value that the family is honest and sincere and are victims, not participants.
Note there may be another industry that would be potentially impacted by this... hemp makes the best mooring lines.