Marijuana vote poses November risk for Democrats

Politico ^ | 09/09/2020 | NATALIE FERTIG and PAUL DEMKO

[NobleFree]

So great that you have decided to devote your life to advocating for a “harmless substance”.

Not only have I never said marijuana is harmless, I have explicitly said the opposite TO YOU: "A great many things besides marijuana are bad for adults." - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3803676/posts?page=83#83

Everyone should have the right to screw themselves up so that the rest of us can take care of them.

People screw themselves up with alcohol, tobacco, and overeating; the conservative answer is not to ban alcohol, tobacco, and overeating.

[NobleFree]

And in my neck of the woods pothead drivers are killing more people than drunks.

Link?

[NobleFree]

We have a national standard for the level of impairment that constitutes drunk driving.

We don’t have that for THC.

Until we have a nationally agreed upon legal standard for what constitutes DUI for pot, we shouldn’t be legalizing it.

The feds have no Constitutional authority over impairment (except perhaps for between-state travel). Several states have established THC limits.

[L,TOWM]

And unless you are a professional driver or airline pilot, so what? The dude hitting a pipe a few times at lunch is probably in better shape during the workday that Betty the Xanax popper down the hall or Art in the corner office popping oxy or vicodin for his “lower back pain” all day...

[NobleFree]

And unless you are a professional driver or airline pilot, so what? The dude hitting a pipe a few times at lunch is probably in better shape during the workday that Betty the Xanax popper down the hall or Art in the corner office popping oxy or vicodin for his “lower back pain” all day...

Don't forget the 3-beer-lunch guy, or the gal still hung over from the night before.

[wgmalabama]

Throw into the bill the shooting hearing protection act, take mufflers (aka “silencers”) out of the ATF hands. Legalize them. Shooting damages hearing. Drive the price to muffle the sound to below damaging levels.

[Bobalu]

The Federal government never had the constitutional right to ban pot in the first place.

SCOTUS made it clear that alcohol prohibition was NOT legal unless a constitutional amendment were passed..

They held the same was true for pot.

The congress passed the Marijuana Stamp Act since they could not legally prohibit it.

The stamp act said cultivation, sale and transport was fine but you had to buy the tax stamps.

They issued a few stamps and then refused to ever issue any more! The whole scheme was a way to skirt the constitution.

Clarence Thomas says the above sentiments are accurate and true.

[dainbramaged]

You should try some, chief. It might help to improve your personality.

[NobleFree]

The Federal government never had the constitutional right to ban pot in the first place.

Sadly, some FReepers forget about the Constitution when it comes to pot.

[fireman15]

the conservative answer is not to ban alcohol, tobacco, and overeating.

Doesn't everyone just love it when whack jobs school us on what a “conservative” is? Thank you Mitt Romney; thank you Paul Ryan; thank you George W Bush; thank you NobleFree.

[NobleFree]

the conservative answer is not to ban alcohol, tobacco, and overeating.

Doesn't everyone just love it when whack jobs school us on what a “conservative” is?

So in your view conservative answer IS to ban alcohol, tobacco, and overeating?

[fireman15]

You should try some, chief. It might help to improve your personality.

Really, Kurt Cobain has hampering your brain function helped with your personality?

[dainbramaged]

Really, Kurt Cobain has hampering your brain function helped with your personality?
I'm way too old to have listened to that crappy band, chief. What I meant was a few bong hits might trigger some self evaluation and possible deep introspection to help you find out why you are such an intolerant Luddite.

[fireman15]

So you believe that Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals should be the conservative playbook? Because almost every one of your posts is always a demonstration of one of the rules. You are roughly as conservative as Vladimir Lenin. For that reason I consider every one of your convloluted insults and flawed attempts at reasoning to be compliments.

[NobleFree]

So in your view the conservative answer IS to ban alcohol, tobacco, and overeating?

So you believe that Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals should be the conservative playbook? Because almost every one of your posts is always a demonstration of one of the rules. You are roughly as conservative as Vladimir Lenin. For that reason I consider every one of your convloluted insults and flawed attempts at reasoning to be compliments.

Again, so many words and no answer.

At this point it's clear you're not even trying to assemble a coherent argument, but with each post simply flinging whatever you think might stick: Romney! Alinksy! Lenin!

Sad.

[MarvinStinson]

Most of what you’ve posted in support of your claim has been rank pothead nonsense

[NobleFree]

Most of what you’ve posted in support of your claim has been rank pothead nonsense

Flaccid tu quoque. I'd urge you to do better but I've seen no evidence you're able.

[MarvinStinson]

Pot promoter noblefree is "sad."

[fireman15]

I'm way too old to have listened to that crappy band, chief.

That does explain a lot. You do realize what long term marijuana use does to people's brains.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana/what-are-marijuanas-long-term-effects-brain

[NobleFree]

Like I said.