Which rationale is how all these destructive, tyrannical environmental regulations get into place -- they are "promoting the general welfare" and those who deny "climate change" are working to harm the general welfare. Right????
Please, please please stop confusing "welfare" and "morality."
Having a consistent measuring system, a consistent monetary system, road and rail systems, etc., is "promoting the general welfare."
Outlawing tobacco promotes the self-aggrandizement of control freaks who think it's their job to save people not as smart as themselves from what they think are risky behaviors, from learning from their mistakes and growing from them, and instead using government to threaten them with punishment if they are so stupid as to indulge in a weakness or a sin -- saving them from the consequences, you see.
If you are registered as a Republican, you should re-register as a Democrat -- Democrats have zero respect for the rights of individuals to learn and grow from their own mistakes, and in the process set examples for others to follow to avoid making the same mistakes. YOU presume to use government to bypass that process altogether, and THAT is the WRONG job for government. THE FOUNDERS KNEW IT. So does Ted Cruz.
Pings to my posts 70 and 71 ... sorry I forgot!
Much of the gross over-application of Federal activity in recent decades has served not the general, but the particular, welfare of specific special interests. The practice would have been anathema to the Founding Fathers.
My original point about the legalization of marijuana was to protect children. Multitudes do not have any parental direction of any kind. Once a state blesses the legalization of pot, like Colorado did, and Obama WON Colorado, and the potheads will probably again vote democrat, they will think it is fine to indulge. In other words, they will be seduced into doing something that is harmful before they have the ability to determine it is harmful themselves. To those who suggest (some of us) become Democrats (and are for federal tyranny - that still makes me laugh) because I am against the legalization of pot - go smoke a joint with your brother Obama; you are one with him on that matter.
In my humble opinion, of all the many ways the federal government has severely harmed this country, outlawing marijuana is not one of them. There are so many areas where the federal government has encroached on states’ rights that are so much more vital than smoking pot - it is not on my list of priorities, not even on the horizon.