Posted on 04/20/2015 3:54:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ted Cruz is personally against the legalization of marijuana but the Republican presidential candidate said this weekend that he believes states have the right to put decriminalization laws on the books if they want - even though they directly conflict with federal law.
Cruz implied during a conversation with Daily Mail Online on Saturday that if he ascended to the highest elected office he wouldn't make his attorney general enforce federal laws pertaining to marijuana in states that have approved sales and consumption of the drug.
The position stands in contrast to the views of at least three of his GOP competitors, who last week said that while they believe in states' rights to self-determination, they'd lay the hammer down on Colorado and Washington for flouting federal law.
Asked Saturday during a New Hampshire campaign stop if he would direct his attorney general to enforce federal pot laws, Cruz said ‘yes’ before providing a lengthy answer that indicated he would not.
He first said that ‘if the attorney general and the president disagree with federal drug law they should come to Congress’ because Republicans and Democrats can come together on the issue of drug reforms....
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what if you refuse to bake a cake with weeds designed on it? I call BS on that. The opium gay war is real and so will the weed war
Not officially, but it is a social drug. Gays do not say they are a polygamist cult but they are. Even in the army the gang of drunks get on good soldiers
Adultery stopped being prosecuted as a crime long ago. The only place I have seen it prosecuted in the last 15 years is the military, and then only as a political tool.
Officers entangling themselves with enlisted is another matter, but even it is winked at if the participants are discreet.
I wouldn’t so much expect it to be prosecuted as a crime as widely eschewed by parents and governing authorities who respect the laws of God and nature. My employer has been known to fire people who are known to cheat on their spouses. Adultery lends to instability and, if rampant enough, diseases. We don’t encourage that kind of behavior unless we are reckless, lawless, and godless. None of those attributes attend to good government, but they do appear all too often in bad government.
It is certainly a sin, as you note. It still meets with social disapproval. It has been pushed as “victimless” for decades now.
I guess I’m okay with this. Weed is certainly less harmful than alcohol. As a 12 stepper, I sure won’t be partaking. But hey, I don’t see this as a huge deal. In fact, the W.O.D. has been the ‘justification’ for the Police State we find ourselves under.
Police involvement with Ferguson and Baltimore riots is a shining example of government doing the job parents are also given to do, namely curb excessive deviance by force if necessary. We may argue whether smoking reefer constitutes “excessive” deviance or not. I happen to believe it is deviant only insofar as it is breaking the law, and that the law needs to lighten up on recreational use. My first post on FR advocated this very thing. At the same time, it is not my prerogative to break the law whenever I feel like it and expect no consequences for my actions.
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