Lawsuit shows resistance to legalization of pot

Associated Press ^ | Dec 19, 2014 6:36 PM EST | Nicholas Riccardi

[Olog-hai]

Despite growing public support for legalizing marijuana, a lawsuit filed by Nebraska and Oklahoma shows that at least two segments of American society are prepared to fight the idea before the nation’s highest court—social conservatives and law enforcement.

The lawsuit seeks to overturn Colorado’s experiment in legalized recreational pot, alleging that the two conservative states are being overrun with Colorado marijuana that is making it harder for them to enforce their own drug laws. …

[allendale]

Ever wonder why Federal judges don’t immediately squash state marijuana legalization laws that are in direct opposition to existing Federal law, but promptly void any traditional marriage or pro life legislation. Just another fact of life in the era of post Christian , neo pagan leftist decadence. The judges give more legal protections to wild animals than human fetuses.

[BipolarBob]

The WOD has turned into a war on citizens with fruitless no knock raids in the middle of the night and nothing to show for it except a dead dog and a mangled infant.

[hondact200]

Pot rots the brain and causes increase in criminal activity. For those whom believe in the legilazation of marijuana and think medical marijuana is a the answer. I say forget it I live in a neighborhood whereby 6 people whom uses medical marijuana thereby has been an increase in crime and the same people doing stupid things - peeing off the front porch, walking in the mine property and taking a dump in full view of the public, one car that has been transferred in ownership among six individuals and the car has never even moved from the driveway of the first person. Also more arrests of the same individuals driving through Wisconsin to get back to Michigan and get busted for driving under the influence of marijuana. Stupid is as stupid does.

[Mariner]

"When you work in the public-safety industry, you're impacted by this all the time," said Jim Gerhardt, vice president of the Colorado Drug Investigators Association. "We're seeing it. The firefighters are seeing it. The hospitals are seeing it. But the general public can be apathetic."

Poor Jim is a Luddite who sees his livelihood going up in smoke.

And that's the principal reason LEO is opposed to Marijuana Legalization. It detracts from their ability to "derive revenue" while using your dog for target practice.

[tacticalogic]

Pro or con, unless and until the States give that power to the federal government by amendment it’s their decision to make, and their responsibility to enforce that decision.

[Olog-hai]

True social conservatives are proponents of private morality (as the Founding Fathers were clear on) rather than top-down authoritarianism. Lumping false social conservatism in here would be typical of the AP.

[Olog-hai]

The Tenth Amendment has to be one that the Obama Administration particularly hates.

[ex91B10]

Can’t smoke a joint but you can bugger your pet...strange world.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Nothing will stop the drive to total degeneration. The dominant philosophy is eating, drinking, drugging, copulating, evacuating the bowels, snoring and occasional free tickets to “The Games.” Such a philosophy must play itself out until terminated by conquest by a people with morals. (I did not say warm fuzzy morals I mean probably the Chinese Communists, severe and hard)

[Olog-hai]

ChiComs are utterly amoral.

[kaila]

Marijuana is no more a problem than alcohol is. It sounds like you have dirtball neighbors, because marijuana does not make people take a dump in public. They may be high on a different drug.
I don’t smoke marijuana, my only vice is a nice glass of Merlot, but I think marijuana being illegal only benefits the law enforcement industry.

[microgood]

This lawsuit is going nowhere.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

What particular moral values do you see them violating? I said hard and severe standards, none of the chattering magpie class allowed, mob assemblies forbidden, dedication to wealth building for purposes of conquest. Is that what you mean. Conquerors are not nice fuzzy people they are hard S.O.B.’s Think of the eagle(China) and the lamb(America 2014 AD)

[philman_36]

I live in a neighborhood...
Why don't you simply move if you're so embittered by what you see in your neighborhood?
A microcosm of State's laws. Don't like the laws in that State? MOVE! Just be prepared for what your new State (neighborhood) has on the books.

[morphing libertarian]

The people of Colorado voted to do this. The other states need to butt out.

[Caipirabob]

Or kill your baby. But it’s not your body when it comes to pot.

[discostu]

Back in the day when states all had different ages for drinking they didn’t sue each other because the laws in one state made it “harder” for another to control under age drinking. The manned up, put cops on the border, and busted a lot of people.

[LouAvul]

I didn't read the lawsuit, but what do those states want the feds to do about it? Isn't pot already illegal federally? Do they want it to be doubly illegal?

Hey. Here's an idea. Follow Tennessee's lead. Set up a whole special agency that is supported solely off roadside confiscations of cash on the assumption that if you're coming back from Colorado, you were there for nefarious reasons.