I’m not necessarily for “less” government in our lives when it concerns STATE governments asserting their rights within their own state boundaries. I’m AM for drastically reduced, extremely limited government of the federal brand, as intended by the Constitution.
STATES most certainly SHOULD be able to monitor the people coming into their territory in the name of the danger and harm outside parties pose to state tranquility. If Coloradans don’t like it, they can stay out.
You are telling us that you ACTUALLY WANT checkpoints at state borders?
Please God, save us from ourselves.
Places in Alaska that have banned booze have this problem with their people too. Same thing in New York with smokes because their taxes are so high.
So do you support states regulating intrastate marijuana policies per the 10th Amendment, rather than fedgov?
fwdude - this is not directed specifically at you - you just happened to be the last person I posted to, so your handle was convenient.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but anyone in Oklahoma that wants to smoke pot is able to buy it with fairly low risk. This pot already comes in from Mexico, through Texas, and to pretty much everywhere. It comes from California to pretty much everywhere. It comes from Georgia.
It has been going on for more years than I care to count. In order to NOT ACTUALLY STOP it, we give police enormous power to detain anyone, and with virtually no actual reason. How much more liberty do you want to give up to NOT stop people who wish to make bad choices?
It’s like saying “I don’t like that people do [fill in the blank] so state troopers should be able to snap on some latex gloves and probe their body cavities to stop them.”
Except there is no “their body cavities” to authorize, it is your own, your grandmother’s, your daughter’s, your son’s.
What ever happened to “He governs best who governs least.”?
What ever happened to “He who would trade his freedom for a little more security deserves neither.”?
The CFR now has a staggering 174,545 pages of laws. Add 50 states worth, and you have more pages than you can reasonable read in a lifetime. We are reaching, or have reached the point, where it is literally impossible for any person not to break some law. The law of the land now makes every single person a criminal, usually multiple times per day.
Are we so personally weak and petulant that we have to forcefully impose our will on people we don’t know to keep them from doing something we don’t like?
So here is a jolly idea: Let’s set up checkpoints on every freaking highway that crosses a state border! Yeah! That will improve our quality of life SO much!
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