Posted on 08/15/2006 5:24:59 PM PDT by Coleus
What makes you think a tax and regulate measure would be more corrupting than the current prohibition?
What policy toward mj do you favor?
These idiots just don't get it. People will be growing their own "tax free" marijuana. It's a weed. It'll grow anywhere.
The fed 'law' can be changed, and will be, -- if States ignore it as an unconstitutional infringement of due process. -- Congress has no delegated power to prohibit.
I agree. Minority neighborhoods in our biggest cities have become breeding grounds for gangsters. Remove the profit from drug-dealing and you will eliminate most of the violence.
We don't see many gangs fighting over "alcohol turf". It's about time we treated all drugs as we treat alcohol.
The drop in violent crime would do a lot to restore the severely infringed Second Amendment.
"The only power government has is to make criminals of it's people."
You've hit the mark with that. It's something I learned in my LP activism; that much of the laws we comply with today are essentially arbitrary.
Arbitrary laws coerce individuals into behaving in a certain manner.
Arbitrary laws can be manipulated by their enforcers to achieve political and social goals.
Arbitrary laws create criminals where criminals do not exist.
I beleive ANY laws enacted by our Federal legislature should be restricted to protecting this nation from external and internal enemies.
I beleive ANY laws enacted by our individual State legislatures should be restricted to protecting the individual's liberty and property. PERIOD.
"I am sick and tired of paying to protct drug addicts from their stupidity."
The war on drugs has nothing to do with protecting drug addicts.
The issue was recently at the top court regarding the Feds and it was upheld.
I think John Roberts wrote the majority view.
Well, one can make his own beer, but how many people do it compared to those who just go to the store? "Home-grown" would be a novelty hobby held only by pothead gardeners.
"These idiots just don't get it. People will be growing their own "tax free" marijuana. It's a weed. It'll grow anywhere."
You can make your own corn liquor too.
People start doing that when it becomes taxed too highly.
Same difference.
The fed 'law' can be changed, and will be, -- if States ignore it as an unconstitutional infringement of due process. -- Congress has no delegated power to prohibit.
The issue was recently at the top court regarding the Feds and it was upheld. I think John Roberts wrote the majority view.
So what? -- Do you think the 'top courts' opinion is infallible?
-- Try reading Marbury, and you will see that the Constitutions words, as written, -- are the supreme law.. -- Court opinions are often reversed.
I think it means the issue won't be revisited for a good part of a decade.
It can be tough if you like recreational drugs I guess.
Even Lincoln said the Constitution was not meant as a suicide pact.
What was the problem at that time with the Constitution that Lincoln had to say that?
Tomatoes and bell peppers grow very easily. Why do those sell at the store pretty well?
Very true, but would you be willing to pay the tax for the right to be left alone completely.
Say 300 or 400 dollars, the price of a good oz. I would.
Whats 'tough' to understand is the prohibitionist mentality. What drives some people to attempt to restrict their peers liberties?
Even Lincoln said the Constitution was not meant as a suicide pact.
What was the problem at that time with the Constitution that Lincoln had to say that?
Some people were so convinced that it was ethical to enslave their peers, -- that they abandoned constitutional means to resolve the issue.
-- Fanatics are like that I guess
Whats 'tough' to understand is the prohibitionist mentality. What drives some people to attempt to restrict their peers liberties?
Even Lincoln said the Constitution was not meant as a suicide pact. What was the problem at that time with the Constitution that Lincoln had to say that?
Some people were so convinced that it was ethical to enslave their peers, -- that they abandoned constitutional means to resolve the issue.
-- Fanatics are like that I guess.
Right, slavery was at one time Constitutional (or at least perceived to be) and it had to be overcome.
Thanks for conceding your false analogy.
There isn't anything good, smart or responsible about recreational drugs. Though some worship it like a sacrament of their faith, it is associated with the dark side of life. Drug use, distribution, exposing children, becoming addicted, medically sick, psychologically sick, changing your brain chemistry, becoming a danger and draw on the rest of the good citizens are all not favorable to how the pro-recreational drug advocate is viewed IMO.
There you go again Guy, preaching and obsessing about "drug advocates"; -- ignoring the 'wars' constitutional issues in order to opine about more prohibitive 'laws'. -- Talk about 'psychologically sick'.
Most all on a conservative forum do not have recreational drug use equaling liberties.
At the time of the Constitution we has slavery and (gasp) we ended it as well.
You are not going to get much sympathy for drugs and in no way would people raise it to the level of a liberty....
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