Posted on 02/11/2017 9:07:26 AM PST by TaxPayer2000
In addition, Prohibition required a constitutional amendment, yet marijuana was made illegal with mere legislation. What it actually demonstrates is that we are a lot more easily controlled than we used to be. I won’t condemn some frogs for jumping out of the ‘pot.’
Of course he’s correct.
The national law must be changed. Prohibition against pot is as popular as prohibition against booze once was and has led to enormous criminal enterprises.
And there are not enough feds to even come close to making a dent in the marijuana trade.
California’s new pot law makes it legal for every adult resident to grow 6 mature plants in their backyard. The entire state will smell of skunk come August.
Commercial pot will never work unless they can get the smell out of it.
A state should be able to secede. As far as I know, there is no process for getting out. As for dope laws, the USSC will never find them unconstitutional because that would utterly destroy the abuse of the commerce clause and return Fedgov to before the progressive era.
No way the court will ever wipe out the new deal.
So people did the more sensible thing and addressed it locally.
The fact is that feds really don’t have the ability to do much without state cooperation.
NO, marijuana was not made illegal.
As even Sessions recognizes...
The U.S. Congress made the possession of marijuana in every state — and the distribution — an illegal act.
Actions taken (possession/distribution) are what are illegal, not marijuana itself.
Congress went the way it did because Prohibition was repealed as unconstitutional. They didn't want a repeat.
They most certainly are the majority...by nearly 20 points
http://www.gallup.com/poll/165539/first-time-americans-favor-legalizing-marijuana.aspx
58% of the American people are Libertardians?
Those polls are about as good as the polls leading up to the November election.
They have NOT voted as such
And puhleez citing a Gallup poll of first time Americans does not prove your point
All drugs are controlled...as in "controlled substances". Get it?
Couldn't a law be passed to "control" other substances...like carbon emissions?
Emissions are a substance, aren't they?
Clinton won the popular vote by about the same margin as the November polls projected.
The Gallup poll on pot is equally valid.
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You got it my FRiend. So MANY federal acts and bureaucracies that are unconstitutional and thus comprise federal tyranny. We have a lot of work to do to tear down this monstrosity and recover our Free Constitutional Republic.
It proves the point that a majority of Americans support legalization.
There's something I've been wondering about. Pot has become much more acceptable, because of changes in laws and because of less concern about people who use it even outside the law (as long as they're discreet). At the same time this has been happening, opioid use has spiraled out of control. So, if easily-accepted pot will solve drug problems, why are so many people dying from drug use?
My contention is that there will always be an outlier population, and the same percentage will stay outside the laws whether strict or lenient. Thus, by making the laws more lenient, we make it more deadly for those whose nature is to live outside society's norms.
That drug that's administered to reverse the effect of heroin overdose is a case in point. It seems that although it has saved some lives, deaths from opiod overdose are still increasing. The paradox is that it's now more acceptable to use heroin (it's a disease! we can save them!). With the stigma being altered and people being told they will be saved, it does seem that many people are getting more reckless about their drug use....and dying.
Yeah right and Hillary Clinton is president
Note the site...changingminds.org.
Foods are a substance. Could they be controlled? bloomberg soda ban
Control, control, control.
Conformity versus nonconformity.
I'm a nonconformist. What are you?
Conservatives always out themselves as Big Government Nanny Staters sooner or later.
The U.S. Congress made the possession of marijuana in every state — and the distribution — an illegal act.
Drug dealer state California fails to read laws.
If Sessions cannot find any constitutionally express delegation of power by the states that reasonably justifies a given federal law, then Pres. Trump and Sessions need to work with the corrupt, state sovereignty-ignoring Congress to remove the law from the books, unconstitutional Obamacare a glaring example.
“The States should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as the General Government." —Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 1790.
“In every event, I would rather construe so narrowly as to oblige the nation to amend, and thus declare what powers they would agree to yield, than too broadly, and indeed, so broadly as to enable the executive and the Senate to do things which the Constitution forbids." —Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1793.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphasis added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In fact, note concerning federal marijuana laws that the state sovereignty-respecting justices who decided United States v. Butler against Congress had clarified that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate INTRAstate agriculture.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Patriots are warned that if they do not support Pres. Trump and Sessions in peacefully “forcing” the corrupt feds to surrender state powers that the feds have been stealing from the states back to the states, then it is only a matter of time before corrupt Congress is once again working in cahoots with a lawless president to use those stolen powers to oppress the sovereign states and their citizens.
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