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Posted on 02/13/2005 11:35:17 AM PST by kennedy
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Cheech and Chong may have joked about marijuana in their movies, but the comedians say they didn't touch the stuff when the cameras were rolling.
"We tried one time and we wasted so much film," said Tommy Chong, recalling a scene in "Up in Smoke." "We were in the car waiting for the cue, you know. And the camera's rolling and we're sitting there, you know, and neither one of us heard the cue."
Chong and former partner Cheech Marin appeared together for the first time in 20 years at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.
Chong said he isn't ashamed of introducing millions of Vietnam-era kids to marijuana. "When you think of how many kids died drinking alcohol, I feel I've saved millions of lives," he said.
Marin said their humor was appreciated by an unexpected group: "Cops were our biggest fans. Because they dealt in what we were dealing with everyday, but in reality... they saw the essential humor and they laughed."
Marin and Chong, who recently completed a nine-month sentence for trying to sell marijuana pipes on the Internet, said they are writing two new films, "Grumpy Old Stoners" and "Lord of the Smoke."
I see. So if Congress passes a constitutional federal law, and the law survives numerous court challenges all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, then the citizens of the states must also comply, correct?
IF, big if, it is constitutional. Our courts make many mistakes, and the other branches of both State & Fed governments are supposed to check & balance the judicial. -- As do juries.
And if a state official, pledged to support the US Constitution, attempts to pass state legislation contrary to federal law, why, that would be treason, would it not? Well then, you and I are in agreement.
Not really. You still advocate a States 'right' to prohibit guns, or most anything else.
Moral majority rule is not the american way, paulsen.
Looks like sh*t, tastes like sh*t, "hmm, good thing we didn't step in it".
Cuz, are you still dueling with the pot heads?
I think MrLeRoy just heard the judge say: "Baliff, whack his pepee".
Most of the 'dueling' here is being done to the banjo music of "states rahts". -- You one too?
You and paulsen are quite the comedy team.
"The Lawyer and the Stooge" - soon to be a motion picture!
A vomitous counterpoint to Cheech and Chong.
Yup, I belive that if the states want to restict the use of dope and jail dope heads, they have that right.
So growing your own should be perfectly legal.
Yup, I belive that if the states want to restict the use of dope and jail dope heads, they have that right.
But wouldn't you agree, -- if a state official, pledged to support the US Constitution, attempts to pass state legislation contrary to that document, why, that would be treason, would it not?
Can States prohibit/restrict the use of guns & jail gun nuts?
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite."
I posted that same line on another thread, and they pulled my comment. Go figure.
Depends on which mod is on duty.
James Madison in Federalist No. 45:
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite."
Yep.. Some powers are "prohibited by it [the Constitution] to the States".
-- The BOR's enumerates some of those prohibited powers , but does not deny that there are "others retained by the people".
See the 9 & 10th Amendments.
Sorry, but these are questions that do come up. I will be sure to read all answers and think them through thoroughly. Keep in mind, I don't care about your habits, except if they impact me and mine (taxes and I hate taxes).
Yup, I belive that if the states want to restict the use of dope and jail dope heads, they have that right.
But wouldn't you agree, -- if a state official, pledged to support the US Constitution, attempts to pass state legislation contrary to that document, why, that would be treason, would it not?
Can States prohibit/restrict the use of guns & jail gun nuts?
That is why we have a supreme court, and more importantly the power of the vote. If the people want pot legalized they will vote it in.
Typical 'majority rules' reply, straight out of the socialist playbook. Pot was never 'criminalized' by a vote, it was prohibited by a fiat 'law'. -- Just as assault weapons are criminalized in Calif.
Todate I have not seen a large movement among the people in that direction.
So you support prohibitions on 'evil items'..
Some conservative you are...
If you want to shut RP up permanatly ask him about the safety of vioxx that was approved by the federal goverment to treat pain you know the same fed gov that kicks in your door and shoots you in the middle of the night for marijuana possision becaseu marijuana is a dangourous drug in the same vein as crack ,herion, and pcp.
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The fact that you misidentify those who have a more fastidious sense of constitutional proprieties than yourself as 'pot heads' only demonstrates your slavish devotion to the modern cult of the State.
Conservatives can only shudder in the face of such perversity - in the end, your false God will fail you.
Question: Who owns your body, the government or you?
freedom n 1: the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints 2: immunity from an obligation or duty. (3)
liberty n 1: The condition of being free from restriction or control. 2. The right and power to act, believe, or express oneself in a manner of one's own choosing. 3. The condition of being physically and legally free from confinement, servitude, or forced labor. (4)
Does imprisoning people who smoke pot match with the above definitions?
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