The cannabis issue, for liberals, is like the gun issue to us.
The Federal Drug War is a great 'teaching moment' opportunity.
We can use the issue to help liberals understand the reason for federalism and state's rights.
Posted on 09/27/2009 2:36:52 PM PDT by cakid1
Whether You Like it or Not - California Will Legalize Pot Next Year
(That seems to be the idea behind a new article out today)
According to a well known, and outspoken leader from the left it’s a good bet that the state will legalize Pot next year.
Part of the reason?
The state needs...
Pot legalization is a goal of anyone who respects the Constitution.
Are there any tobacco farmers here on FR? I’d buy 100 pounds of cigarette tobacco for $3 a pound or whatever the price is.
There are tobacco auctions from what I hear.
You have to assume that part of the law would allow you to grow it yourself. You can grow tobacco yourself, tobacco is taxed, yet most people don’t grow their own tobacco.
Today’s illegal drug dealers will likely see a big hit in their wallets. Some people will grow it themselves, others will buy it in stores and pay a tax. There won’t be much of a profit for pot smuggling.
Leftists love to tell big lies.
They actually take in less revenue now with cig then they did before they started taxing it, hence the constant raising of the cig tax in order to raise revenues which then drives more people to stop smoking and fewer revenues to be collected. Soon, and it may have already started, cigs will be smuggled in.
Don't believe me? Cigars of certain types are smuggled in now. Every once in a while they will make a big "illegal cigar" bust, and cigars haven't been taxed much until recently.
Making MJ legal should take the crime out of it, and it will for a while(-the growers who now grow it illegally will probably get out of the market, but farmers eager for a new crop will start up)but they will kill that off like they have cigs.
Not in affect for about forty years. Read a book.
There are many of us on the Right that support the re-legalization of marijuana, too...I, for one. :-)
The rest of us in the other 49 are waiting on you Californians to “get ‘er done!” in repealing marijuana prohibition next year. God bless you & the state of California!
There is no history of a "tradition" of pot use among white civilization or in the United States and it is still not a part of western culture, but it is a tradition in many of those laziest, most backward regions of the world, such as the Middle East.
Hopefully the potheads will be to stoned to go to the polls to vote now!
I see you are unfamiliar with the writings of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, AKA the Father of History.
If you want to defend Western Culture, it helps to know something about it.
Stoned no...DRUNK is more the requirement for me!
I hate this sh!thole!
Nope...they are too pumped up to do that. We will celebrate AFTER we win in next year’s election (well, the Californians will, since I’m in AR; but I’m w/ them in spirit!)
It is up to the State. Legalize Pot and tax it. Like cigarettes; state tax $2.00/pack or 50-100% of wholesale price. Then the feds can tax it at minimum $1/pack or $24.75/pound (roll your own). Just like cigarettes are now!
Don’t legalize the hard drugs.
You can't tell your Right from your Left.
Conservative:
"Drugs like marijuana are fungible commodities. As the Court explains, marijuana that is grown at home and possessed for personal use is never more than an instant from the interstate market–and this is so whether or not the possession is for medicinal use or lawful use under the laws of a particular State." --Justice Antonin Scalia
Leftist:
“…There is just too much money to be made both by the people who grow marijuana and the cities and counties that would be able to tax it.” --Willie Brown
The cannabis issue, for liberals, is like the gun issue to us.
The Federal Drug War is a great 'teaching moment' opportunity.
We can use the issue to help liberals understand the reason for federalism and state's rights.
"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica." -- Abraham Lincoln;
"Prohibition... goes beyond the bound of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded" -Abraham Lincoln
I do know that western civilization is an alcohol based culture not a cannabis based culture like the Middle East.
I mean the political election, Gov,Senator,Congressmen,
Taxes...You get my drift?
I just want it taxed equally with tabacco.
That’s exactly what I was referring to also....the election in Nov. 2010, when Californians will stand up for their rights under the 10th Amendment to decide their own marijuana laws.
What you are probably referring to may be AFTER the 2010 election, after the law passes & the stoners are too stoned to go to the polls in 2012, correct?
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