A group of US representatives plan to introduce legislation that will legalize marijuana and allow states to legislate its use, pro-marijuana groups said Wednesday.Posted on 06/22/2011 5:21:01 PM PDT by hamboy
A group of US representatives plan to introduce legislation that will legalize marijuana and allow states to legislate its use, pro-marijuana groups said Wednesday.
The legislation would limit the federal government's role in marijuana enforcement to cross-border or inter-state smuggling, and allow people to legally grow, use or sell marijuana in states where it is legal.
The bill, which is expected to be introduced on Thursday by Republican Representative Ron Paul and Democratic Representative Barney Frank, would be the first ever legislation designed to end the federal ban on marijuana.
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That would totally privatize the behavior!
I’m buying stock in Nabisco(Oreos).
A new income source for the states, DUIP convictions once they have the test. Lots of issues of second hand smoke, for real this time. How about this? Let’s legalize it one day a year - election day.
America also needs more parents stoned all the time so they cannot properly raise, feed and protect their children.
If you want to smoke pot, go to a foreign country where it's legal and leave responsible Americans to deal soberly with their problems without having to contend with a bunch of irresponsible and narcissistic potheads who never grew up.
This is incredible bullshit to be pushing at a time when America has profound economic problems and needs all hands on deck to soberly deal with our many serious problems.
And Frito-Lay Cheetos
The bullshit as it were is the banning of substances to begin with.
Plenty of productive responsible people smoke currently.
Shall we make broad and unsupported generalizations about alcohol users as well, bring back prohibition?
Poor, Dr. Paul, he’ll do anything to try to please a liberal, it seems. I think he likes all the attention.
The DemocRATS are pulling out all the stops in their efforts to win elections. Keep ‘em high and stupid!!! They won’t notice how screwed up the country is!
LOL Ain’t that the truth!
It is so hard to believe that this nutjob has good solid ideas about the US Treasury and is so looney on other things!
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
True.
But, there are those on this thread who think that it's not just okay, but actually stand up and cheer for such usurpation.
The Prohibitionists always think they know what's best for everyone and are not above lying to achieve their ends.
For example:
Fun Facts about the Temperance Movement and Prohibition
• Officials in local towns were so convinced that alcohol was the cause of virtually
all crime that, on the eve of Prohibition, some of them sold their jails.
• During the early 1800s, temperance societies offered 2 pledge options: moderation
in drinking or total abstinence. After those who pledged total abstinence
began writing “T.A.” on their pledge cards, they became known as
“teetotalers.”
• Early temperance writers often insisted that because of their high blood alcohol
content, habitual drunkards could spontaneously combust and burn to
death from inside.
• A temperance publication wrote of drinking parents who gave birth to small
children with a “yen for alcohol so strong that the mere sight of a bottle
shaped like a whiskey flask brought them whining for a nip.”
• One temperance “scientific authority” implied that inhaling alcohol vapors
might lead to defective offspring for at least three generations.
• Because the temperance movement taught that alcohol was a poison, it insisted
that school books never mention the contradictory fact that alcohol was
commonly prescribed by physicians for medicinal and health purposes.
• Temperance leader Lucius Manlius Sargent tried to get secondary schools, colleges,
and universities to eliminate all references to alcoholic beverages in ancient
Greek and Latin texts.
• Because the temperance movement taught that drinking alcohol was sinful, it
was forced to confront the contrary fact that Jesus drank wine. Its solution
was to insist that Jesus drank grape juice rather than wine.
• During Prohibition, temperance activists hired a scholar to rewrite the Bible
by removing all references to alcoholic beverages.
• The Bible’s admonition to “use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake” caused serious
problems for temperance writers, who argued that alcohol was a poison
and drinking was a sin. So they insisted that the Bible was actually advising
people to rub alcohol on their abdomens.
• Prohibitionists often advocated strong measures against those who did not
comply with Prohibition. One suggested that the government distribute poisoned
alcoholic beverages through bootleggers; he acknowledged that several
hundred thousand Americans would die as a result, but thought the cost well
worth the enforcement of Prohibition. Others suggested that those who drank
should be:
• hung by the tongue beneath an airplane and fl own over the country
• exiled to concentration camps in the Aleutian Islands
• excluded from any and all churches
• forbidden to marry
• tortured
• branded
• whipped
• sterilized
• tattooed
• placed in bottle-shaped cages in public squares
• forced to swallow 2 ounces of castor oil
• executed (along with the next four generations of their descendants)
• The Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) taught as “scientific fact”
that the majority of beer drinkers die from “dropsy,” a swelling of body tissues
due to fluid retention.
• To deter student drinking, the WCTU suggested that schoolteachers put half of a
calf’s brain in an empty jar with some alcohol. As the brain turned from pink to
gray, students were to be warned that alcohol would do the same to their brains.
• The president of the WCTU, upon learning that government agents had
clubbed a suspected bootlegger and then shot down his unarmed wife as she
ran to his aid, responded “Well, she was evading the law, wasn’t she?”
• Prohibition agents routinely broke the law themselves. They shot innocent people and regularly destroyed citizens’ vehicles, homes, businesses, and other valuable property.
• “Bathtub gin” got its name from the fact that alcohol, glycerin, and juniper
juice were mixed in bottles or jugs too tall to be filled with water from a sink
tap, so they were commonly filled under a bathtub faucet.
• The speakeasy got its name because one had to whisper a code word or name
through a slot in a locked door to gain admittance.
• Prohibition led to widespread disrespect for law. New York City alone had about
30,000 speakeasies. Even public leaders flaunted their disregard for the law.
• During Prohibition, some desperate people believed that the undrinkable alcohol
in antifreeze could be made safe and drinkable by filtering it through a
loaf of bread. The unfortunate victims who drank it were seriously injured or
killed as a result.
• In Los Angeles, a jury that had heard a bootlegging case was itself put on trial
after the jurors drank the evidence. They argued in their defense that they had
simply been sampling the evidence to determine whether or not it contained
alcohol, which they decided it did. However, because they consumed the evidence,
the defendant charged with bootlegging had to be acquitted.
• The Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) taught as “scientific fact”
that the majority of beer drinkers die from “dropsy,” a swelling of body tissues
due to fluid retention.
• To deter student drinking, the WCTU suggested that schoolteachers put half of a
calf’s brain in an empty jar with some alcohol. As the brain turned from pink to
gray, students were to be warned that alcohol would do the same to their brains.
• The president of the WCTU, upon learning that government agents had
clubbed a suspected bootlegger and then shot down his unarmed wife as she
ran to his aid, responded “Well, she was evading the law, wasn’t she?”
• Prohibition agents routinely broke the law themselves. They shot innocent people and regularly destroyed citizens’ vehicles, homes, businesses, and other valuable property.
• “Bathtub gin” got its name from the fact that alcohol, glycerin, and juniper
juice were mixed in bottles or jugs too tall to be filled with water from a sink
tap, so they were commonly filled under a bathtub faucet.
• The speakeasy got its name because one had to whisper a code word or name
through a slot in a locked door to gain admittance.
• Prohibition led to widespread disrespect for law. New York City alone had about
30,000 speakeasies. Even public leaders flaunted their disregard for the law.
• During Prohibition, some desperate people believed that the undrinkable alcohol
in antifreeze could be made safe and drinkable by filtering it through a
loaf of bread. The unfortunate victims who drank it were seriously injured or
killed as a result.
• In Los Angeles, a jury that had heard a bootlegging case was itself put on trial
after the jurors drank the evidence. They argued in their defense that they had
simply been sampling the evidence to determine whether or not it contained
alcohol, which they decided it did. However, because they consumed the evidence,
the defendant charged with bootlegging had to be acquitted.
Why is the Republican Party called the "Stupid Party"?
I wrote Barney.F three times today letting him know I HATE this idea, it’ll make life even mire insane for children and those of us who don’t use drugs or smoke. I live in his district - he should be used to my complaining by now. This is over the top tho.
I wrote Barney.F three times today letting him know I HATE this idea, it’ll make life even mire insane for children and those of us who don’t use drugs or smoke. I live in his district - he should be used to my complaining by now. This is over the top tho.
The USA bus is going over the cliff at 90 miles an hour, and this is the best thing the Congress can do with their time?
Every Conservative *should* be for this.
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