Posted on 04/07/2015 9:34:24 AM PDT by grundle
Legalization could possibly reduce the size of government. He does not want that to happen.
The only solution is to elect strict constitutionalists to represent me... and keep on-hand plenty of Hoppe's № 9 to help keep "things" ready for dispatching invasive vermin at bay... well, until the drone strikes take me out.
The marijuana debate is useful to the left only as a tool for manipulation.
They don’t want it resolved. I say ignore the whole conversation if you want to thwart Obama and the left.
Legalization is more likely to reduce the size of the population.
Would the 10th amendment allow California to legalize Heroin, Crack, Nuclear Weapons and Biological agents too?
>> "Legalization is more likely to reduce the size of the population Medical Mafia!" <<
.
Yeah, we really need to worry about that "medical mafia". Why who knows how much trouble is being caused by letting Pharmacists supply drugs via prescription instead of making it a free for all?
The way the interstate commerce clause has been interpreted, it gives the government practically unlimited powers. This is one of the many reasons a CoS is needed.
He’s just paying off his Latino drug smuggling pals.
Imagine that! HNIC and Holder lied.
>> “Legalization is more likely to reduce the size of the population Medical Mafia!” <<
I believe the left is starting to have reservations about legalization. It could possibly reduce the size of the
ATF, FBI, CIA, .... petty much all forms of law enforcement.
These guys fight hard for their budgets. It’s their jobs and pensions.
Doubt that. They'll just hire more to regulate it. Decriminalization on the other hand….
No, he doesn't - but why isn't he also going after recreational pot in CO and WA? Is medical pot somehow more decentralized and thus an easier target?
Doubt that. They’ll just hire more to regulate it. Decriminalization on the other hand…. .
You’re probably correct.
Homeland Security was created to bring better communications between different agencies — FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. Instead, it is now a monster agency. They’ve even hired people to hunt feral hogs.
The Justice Department has made clear that as long as legal grow operations, both medical and recreational, stay within written guidlines, the feds will not prosecute. All the arrests in the last year have been of persons breaking the guidelines or in some cases have been in league with cartels.
The California medical marijuana case was not about pot, it was about maximizing federal government power through an extremely expansive view of the Commerce Clause. SCOTUS could have curtailed that in the Obamacare case, but Justice Roberts saved the New Dealers.
So the argument is "interstate commerce" is impacted because the self sufficient individual isn't forced to purchase whatever he produces?
No, he doesn’t - but why isn’t he also going after recreational pot in CO and WA? Is medical pot somehow more decentralized and thus an easier target?
I really cannot answer this one.
I guess Big Pharma is against medical pot and they’ve got a lot of influence over Hussein.
I guess Big Pharma is against medical pot and they’ve got a lot of influence over Hussein.
Actually, I think you just did answer it. (I'm sure Big Booze is against recreational pot, but competing in an open market they can't exercise the clout of Big Pharma.)
That's it in a nutshell - and it's the peg on which the federal Leviathan, including its War on Drugs, is hung.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.