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All law making is a moral activity. All laws are an expression of some underlying moral imperative.
What next? Legalized prostitution?
Short answer: yes.
Because Lee - like 99% of people - only believes in states' rights when it benefits issues he likes (assuming he truly believes in the concept at all).
I can’t decide if this article is an attack against Republicans or Tea Partiers.
Probably both since it has a libertarian smell to it.
This is crap.
the unprincibled are the ones asking
I think marijuana decriminalization is a smart compromise vs legalization. It wouldn’t really change anything much because few people if any go to jail for possession anyway but lots of taxpayer dollars are wasted prosecuting it.
Decriminalization vs legalization won’t lead to growth of government because a small fine for getting caught is better than paying a tax every time.
I think potheads are pathetic, but that’s a completely different matter than whether or not I think they should be crushed by the federal government. Justice Thomas made the right call in Gonzales v. Raich.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich#Dissenting_opinions
In a federalist system, we permit other states and people to decide how they want to live even if we disagree with them. For one thing, that means we can live together peacefully as one nation. For another, it means the states are free to experiment and maybe prove or disprove the value of a given policy, like the legalization of marijuana.
They are certainly not federalists. One could argue they also do not value the Constitution...which is, ultimately, a federal documents which leaves such decisions to the states, and the People, respectively.
Two generations of Americans will need to eventually relearn the old lesson that state power kills people who get in its way. Only then will a credible opposition emerge - but they won't have neat haircuts and expensive suits and polite manners.
Go back to being for smaller government and a stronger economy, and most people won’t care about the social issues.
“...and that view is especially common among young voters.”
Gee, the same group that favors anal sex, abortion, and taxing the rich at 100%.
Answer: Sheldon Adelson pays the bills.
good question for Goober Graham ,too.
I don’t like pot and gambling but Republicans look old when they tell people under 30, sorry, you’re not allowed to do that on our watch.
That is what conservatism passes for these days - telling locals Washington is always right.
It doesn’t feel like tyranny if you agree with it.
Interesting topic, but even more so is the tone. As someone who’s sympathetic to the author’s points, the abrasiveness of his writing doesn’t convince me to join him. It pushes me away.