Posted on 01/05/2018 5:32:19 AM PST by Kaslin
We are supposedly a nation of laws, not men, but our lawmakers have ensured over the years that we are increasingly at the whim of men, elected or appointed, instead of the law. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has declared that he will reverse an Obama Administration position allowing states to decide on marijuana legalization. Now, local United States Attorneys will be empowered to decide.
But neither the Obama Administration nor Jeff Sessions should do anything other than enforce the law, and federal law criminalizes marijuana. The solution here is not to ignore the federal law, but to repeal it. To do otherwise empowers individuals beyond the rule of law and puts the whims of officials ahead of the will of the people.
Near where I live, a local police officer pulled over a man for the audacious offense of driving while eating. There was no complaint and there was no evidence that the man was distracted in his driving. But the young police officer decided to use the distracted driving charge to ticket the man, whose local officials eventually threw out the citation. We live in an age where there are more and more complaints of overzealous police officers and overzealous cities nickel and diming the citizenry on old laws.
The correct remedy is to repeal stupid laws. Again, as long as the law is on the books, it allows a bureaucrat or politician to have extraordinary and capricious control over your life. It allows politicians to change their minds and reverse other policies. It puts men ahead of the law. And our Congress is notoriously good at passing laws then abdicating their constitutional responsibilities to bureaucrats who they can blame at election time.
You may think there is nothing wrong with legalized marijuana. All but three states now have some form of legalized medical marijuana and several states now have legalized recreational marijuana. California is the latest and also a case study in the legalization of marijuana as a new form of revenue and regulation.
Regardless, as long as a federal law is on the books making marijuana possession a criminal act, a bureaucrat in Washington can wipe out the market and a thriving industry. You can scream all you want that they should not do it, but they can and the only thing in life more certain than even death and taxes is that a bureaucrat will act arbitrarily and capriciously when the mood strikes.
This, though, is the logical outcome of the federal government stepping in to the criminal law field, something our founders would be appalled by. Tough on crime politicians run for federal office insisting they will make federal criminal laws and the result is placing people in situations where they can be prosecuted under a state law, then have a federal prosecutor prosecute them for the same thing when a U.S. Attorney seeks to build his name for his own run for office. No, it is not double jeopardy because the federal government and state governments are separate entities. Ironically, many of the tough on crime politicians getting elected to expand the federal criminal law are also Republican politicians who claim to want to return power to the states.
When John F. Kennedy was assassinated there was no federal law criminalizing the assassination of a President. Only in 1965 did Congress act. Now we have a federal crime for virtually anything you can think of and federal bureaucrats with their own SWAT teams to enforce not just criminal laws, but bureaucratic regulations.
Congress should scuttle most of the federal criminal law in an effort to restore the balance of power to the states. I am indifferent on marijuana legalization, but many states are not and Congress should let the system and rule of law work instead of undermining the rule of law by empowering the arbitrariness and capriciousness of men.
Try comprehending sometime.
And what’s your weekness? gambling? smoking?
drinking? you watch too much tv? Eat like a fat pig? Weigh 500 lbs? Sex fetish?
I know what it is, you are a controlling judgmental douche, and if you don’t like something no one else should! Gfys
That's alright. Because we all know yooz gots a solution.
Yeah, you know what it is.
It's calling you.
It's urging you.
It will make you feel better.
Because a feeling is all that matters to you.
You lack the freedom to say no.
You lack the strength to make it submit to you, so meekly, you will submit to it.
Yes, give yourself over to it, because you are nothing without it.
Go on.
You know you want to.
No reason.
No freedom.
Just the feeling.
Because all you want is the feeling.
Eff freedom.
Eff reason.
Just give yourself the feeling already.
You can do it.
LOL!
Wow I’ve never felt that.
Is that what booze does to you? you drunken lush. Btw You know anyone that needs more than two guns is a pussy!
C'mon!
You are as ambitious as any other WeedWeakling!
You can do it!
Give better ad humminem!
LOL!
Are you drunk now or just unable to spell?
LOL! What!?
I may have wasted it on you because of your diminished, weed-addled comprehension skills, but I'll leave it out there for others to enjoy.
This is wrong. Federal law does not criminalize marijuana. Federal law allows the criminalization of substances identified by executive rule making. The President can unilaterally decide whether marijuana is one of those substances, if he likes.
Yeh speling whaaysamatta yooz dunt nose what thet is,
Or you too drunk to read what you posted.
Of course, with your questionable comprenhension skills, you probably won't recognize that I just dissed you.
Oh you’re under the impression that your opinion matters to me and I am somehow hurt by words some random idiot types on a computer, it doesn’t. Also you made the assumption that because I defended legal marijuana I smoke marijuana. Not really a suprise from a judgemental douche like yourself. But in reality I’m just intelligent enough to appreciate that weed should not be a schedule 1 substance and the tax money lost to drug cartels and criminals due to the sale of marijuana on the black market, which will continue and increase due to the actions of the AG and DOJ, in addition to the money wasted on the policing, prosecution and incarceration of “potheads” is a massive waste of resources. proven historically by the prohibition and repeal of alcohol. But like I said before GFYS
>>WeedWussiness equals weakness, dependence, and instability. <<
Which is every man’s right and no business of the Federal Government.
Right you are.
Mr. President, please deschedule marijuana! Give Sessions one less thing to waste time and resources on.
And you'll never make anyone's 9-most-smartest-potheads-in-the-world list.
And you still suck at giving ad humminem.
And you probably should become a WeedWeakling because it's obvious you are emotionally and lawlessly disordered because of the ease in which you are #triggered.
Damn over three hours and all you got is a re-hash (get it pot humor) of the same lame shit you posted early. Sad really sad.
But you're imagining or hallucinating things if you think I'm calling for federal action to save them from their self destructiveness and their lack of American Exceptionalism.
#PotheadsAreLazyAndHaveNothingBetterToDoWithTheirPatheticPointlessLives
The irony is priceless.
That's not a very ConservingFreedom thing to do.
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