Posted on 05/12/2016 8:24:11 AM PDT by Be Careful
Since these states are legislating by usurping Federal law, can they be held responsible for creating/enabling an environment that contributed to an accident or a crime?
“There is no constitutional authority for the feds here.”
Yep, all they can do is appeal to court-stitutional authority.
Now THAT is living up to your screen name.
Name calling means you have no argument that will work. My family has generations of dealing with addictive behavior. You can peddle your snake oil to someone else.
State’s rights only counts when it’s things I like. If it’s something I dont like, then screw states rights and Im all for the almighty power of federal gov.
Personal responsibility? Not for things I dont like.
Facts? Those only apply for things I like / support. For those things I dont like, it’s all about emotional reasoning.
And this ends today’s lesson on Cuckservatism.
“... Don’t forget that part. The entire premise of these laws is that the goons in the government think they are better suited to decide what we can put in our own bodies than we are.”
Oh, I didn’t forget that. I assumed that was clearly implied.
That is not true. Then new breed of skunk weed is making 15% of people psychotic - thus the snowflakes on campus and first time users jumping off of roofs or shooting their family.
“Every state issues alcohol permits. Are they liable for drunks murdering people every year?”
No. But taxed alcohol isn’t illegal under Federal law.
Sounds like you’re addicted to doing the wrong thing and afraid to admit it.
> No. But taxed alcohol isn’t illegal under Federal law.
All alcohol was once illegal under Federal law.
But but but, the pot could be transported over state lines!
Certainly you know that pot does not create "addicts" who need a "fix", as it is not an addictive substance that requires more and more of the substance to get high.
In fact, the opposite is true. It's called reverse tolerance.
Marijuana is illegal under federal law.
Where is something like that enumerated as a federal power by the Constitution?
Seems like the feds are overstepping their bounds in trying to ban one of God's own plants...
Everything you said, though, is spot on.
Some conservatives forget that a fundamental aspect of conservatism is the defending the freedom to do what you will as long as you are not harming others.
That's because I am so darn high, it affects my hearing, or something.
you are more generous than I!
Anyone who hasn’t been able to figure it out by now is either an idiot or riding the government funding gravy train and conflicted.
“Alcohol can be consumed in acceptable levels to still drive a vehicle. Pot, not so much.”
Sure, that’s why pot-related fatalities are such a leading cause of roadway deaths!
/sarc
If you get into an accident and kill someone, they do drug screening. If you have metabolites of weed in your whiz quiz, you will be charged with OWI and manslaughter (in my state.) It varies from person to person, but it can take up to a month (heavy user) after smoking weed to pass a whiz quiz. If you smoke once or infrequently, most people can pass in a week. The reason it takes so long is the metabolites are stored in your body fat.
“My family has generations of dealing with addictive behavior.”
I see, so when it’s YOUR problem, you like big government trying to fix it, eh?
Well, THC-detecting blood tests don’t exactly measure whether the person is “high” but they are very common.
Wait, what?
Did you just make that up? What do you base that assertion on?
Are you implying that any amount of pot in a persons' system makes them unable to drive safely?
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