[a fool in paradise]

I challenged you on consistency on the issue of using the ATF (and federal government) to tax tobacco and alcohol since you want sacred pot exempted from these taxes.

16 years gives you a lot of territory to show you have been consistently vocal against beer and cig taxes at the federal level.

[Ken H]

I said the states, rather than the DEA, should regulate intrastate marijuana policies per the Tenth Amendment. If you understood the Tenth Amendment, you'd understand that that means Congress may tax alcohol, tobacco and pot when it enters foreign or interstate commerce. But not when these items are just intrastate.

Now are you going to address the Tenth Amendment, or are you going to chicken for the fifth time?

[tacticalogic]

I challenged you on consistency on the issue of using the ATF (and federal government) to tax tobacco and alcohol since you want sacred pot exempted from these taxes.

Having a national government of limited and enumerated powers means having to maintain the distinctions among the different enumerated powers. The power to tax is separate and distinct from the power to regulate commerce.

Conflation destroys those distinctions, and serves to obfuscate rather than clarify the issues at hand.