Posted on 02/11/2017 9:07:26 AM PST by TaxPayer2000
Uh oh Colorado looks like the pot industry is in big trouble. Here comes the new AG.
Only at their own great peril. Something about some of the people all the time, all the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time.
Great deep ripping bite marks are found on the gluteus maximus of those who fail to respect the demands of their constituents on a recurring basis.
Is Sessions counting on that ignorance?
Following the law. What a concept.
I don’t see it as deception at all. He may have no intention of changing the schedule himself, therefore the only other recourse would be for Congress to pass a law to change the rule.
You’re what I’d call a rigid contrarian that resorts to highly arcane specifics that bear no practical import to the matter at hand. The fact is that we do have laws at both the federal and state levels. If you don’t like them, then change them.
The fact is that the AG DOES have a budget and a mission statement agreed upon with the President. It is up to him to prioritize the funds and resources available to him to address the President’s wishes. To put up an argument that because the AG does not have unlimited funding and resources is NOT a reason to say that one or more of the prioritized goals cannot be addressed.
You can ‘conservative’ it all you want, but we still live in the real world, and if you and your like-minded people want it different, then change the laws. That’s a pretty simple idea.
Absolutely, Dead On right.
Then let them elect representatives and senators otherwise go back to the corner they came from
Then why didn’t Johnson get more votes?
I disagree Sessions would be wrong to enforce the law. The responsibility to either change or negate the laws as written do not fall to the executive branch. They are legislative and judicial, respectively.
I do not disagree that the laws are not constitutionally founded. But the AG should not decide to ignore the laws as written.
You should always take a shower at least once a week. Neglecting ones hygiene is a sign of mental illness.
I take a shower once every month whether I need it or not.
Why hasn’t anyone taken it to the Supreme Court and asked for a ruling? For the same reason you cant talk your armed robber into not robbing you. Think any supreme court will reduce the power of fedzilla? The people sensibly took the route of states rights to challenge marijuana laws and they have done so well.
No, it wasn’t Lincoln who destroyed the states. It was FDR who did that. States were still extremely independent until then. Police chases ended at state lines. Bank robbery was a state crime. FDR changed it all. He required the National Guard to come under US Army control. He twisted the commerce clause to make everything a federal power. Incidentally it was made illegal in 1937 by FDR.
Sure are a lot of new dealer FDR fans here on FR!
Then he should state he has no intention of changing the schedule instead of implying Congress alone is responsible for any change.
Until he does that anything less is being deceptive and Congress has no clue on which direction to take. Why make a law that isn't necessary?
“Arrest and convict them of felonies and they are barred from teaching “
So fedzilla sets the rules on who may be a teacher also.
Doesn’t sound like he is going after marijuana so much as saying that there is a contradiction in what the law says and does.
“Highly arcane specifics” like thinking the Constitution actually was meant to be followed? Sorry, ill never agree that we need to simply have a conservative version of a pervasive government created by the progressives.
Conservatism isn’t for us to dictate peoples lives, except according to our rules.
If marijuana laws are unconstitutional then SCOTUS needs to hear arguments. I know of no case pending.
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