It could also be a “slippery slope” in blindly accepting excuses. So if the needs of the patient are more than served by the crop and they decide to sell off the excess to your or my kids, that’s okay?
I’m okay with “strictly personal” and property rights and all that, but this libertarian attitude totally neglects other unseen effects and possiblilities - and we are supposed to just take these peoples’ words for it all. No thanks.
Not making excuses. Rather, supporting freedom.
“sell off the excess to your or my kids” - Selling it to your kids isn’t personal use. No argument on that - prosecute away. I have no problems with laws and enforcement, but this is a property rights issue.
You are assuming the family sold pot and (at least from this article and a linked article) there is zero evidence that this is the case.
Of course it's not, silly. Selling it to your kids, or any other minors is an entirely different issue. That's when an actual crime can be said to have been committed.
Absent that, NO CRIME HAS BEEN COMMITTED.
Why do Prohibitionists engage in such clumsy propaganda?
Putting someone in prison (or threatening them with same) for possessing the wrong plant/medicine/spirits, etc., or even for giving such things to another adult, is Tyrannical.
Right-wing authoritarians who embrace Prohibition are ultimately endorsing the same mobocratic notion of arbitrary Law that the nanny-state Left revels in. They simply disagree over the minor detail of whose Tyrannical vision should prevail. Both extremes are equally unjustifiable.
I prefer the animating struggle of Freedom, warts and all. Making one of God's own creations illegal and contraband? ROTFLMAO!
My liberty is MY Liberty. On my property, I can grow, smoke, or drink what I please. My vision of "The Pursuit Of Happiness" isn't subject to anybody else's narrow-minded interpretations.
If I'm not infringing on someone else's rights, I'm not a criminal, whether the state declares me to be one or not.