States vs. Federal Government.
Is sanity returning to America?
Just to be clear up front: If I had the power to prohibit marijuana I would do it.
But the issue of Federal authority vs. State authority is much more important than my personal views about the demon weed.
In 1917, when Congress decided it wanted to ban fermented plant products (alcohol), they realized that the Constitution granted them no such power and that an Amendment would be required in order to make the Volstead Act constitutional.
In 1970, when Congress decided it wanted to exercise legislative authority over other plant products (marijuana), they just went right ahead and did it.
If the Volstead Act would have been unconstitutional without the XVII Amendment, what makes the marijuana portions of the Controlled Substances Act constitutional?
States which are legalizing marijuana are making a serious error, in my opinion. But I have no question that they have the authority to do this.
I have serious doubts that Congress has, or had, the authority to ban it.
Hard to put the genie back in the bottle.
Forget about the weed, dope, and concentrate on the insidious, rampant government corruption!
Aren’t there more important things for Sessions to attend to than this and reviving civil asset forfeiture? Like cleaning the dismal Seep State swamp?
Excellent chess move by Sessions to attack the sanctuary for illegals that these states were doing.
The only thing Sessions will do is alienate millions of supporters and those who support states rights.
This is a dumb as it gets.
I’m waiting for him to end the policy that allows Hillary to prosper and walk around free.
Sessions is all over it if it has anything to do with the impersonal like drugs. Get personal like Hillary or the various minions of the deep state and he’s ether struck comatose or has just begun another vacation - whichever comes first.
Sessions is 100% wrong on this issue, IMO.
I sincerely hope President Trump, who as a candidate said cannabis is a states rights orders Sessions to cease & desist from this disastrous path.
Legal marijuana is not the answer to states financial problem (no more than legalize gambling solved states financial problem)
The problem states have is not lack of money, it is out of control spending in social programs and generous public employee pensions (a ponzi scheme if there ever was one).
Politicians have for years been buying votes with money from the future. As the tax burden rises, people move out of high tax states (while freeloaders move in). It is as the left like to say, unsustainable.
Finding new tax revenue is a temporary fix, but will not solve the problem.
States need to get out of the social welfare business.
States need to get out of the health care (except for traditional public health matters)
States need to end all public employee pensions and switch to 401k type programs. Once an employee leave the employ of the state no public money should go to them
This is going to happen. It is going to be controlled transition or it is going to be bankrupt state where the courts rule on who gets paid what.
Of the million things that Sessions should be doing to roll back corruption and liberal policies at the DOJ, this is probably number 999,999.
First, confiscate all the state tax money earned off this illegal business.
States’ rights, Tenth Amendment, capitalism, freedom > AG Sessions
The issue of the day is IMMIGRATION, both Legal and ILLEGAL.
This is just one guy’s obsession with reversing the 60’s, and he isn’t focused on the Big, Big thing: IMMIGRATION.
We don’t want our children to live in a Third World America, and we don’t want them ruled by the people from those places who simply walk in and declare themselves in charge!!
Invasion is not a civil right just because you’re non-white!
Sessions needs to heed the President and the People and go all out on immigration enforcement!
What a waste of time. He could actually be doing something useful.
For only $10 or $20 trillion more dollars, we can finally win the War on Drugs!
Federal marijuana laws are UNCONSTITUTIONAL ... as are ALL Federal drug laws.
Remember, it took an AMENDMENT to the Constitution to prohibit alcohol!
The Feds originally prohibited marijuana by requiring a tax be payed by growers and that tax-stamps be issued. Then they REFUSED to issue the stamps!
Clearly unconstitutional, it is a STATE issue.
The current state where the DEA is allowed to prohibit substances on a whim is blatantly counter to our founding principles.