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To: MamaTexan
"AHEM! Why don't you try picking up dictionary?"

Dictionary? Why pick up the dictionary when I have the U.S. Constitution itself:

"... To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes ..."

"WHERE in the US Constitution is the jurisdiction, power, or authority to tell the people what they can posses or ingest?"

You just posted it:

"interstate commerce (is) commercial trade ... regulated by the federal government..."

To regulate includes to prohibit. Don't you even read what you post?

87 posted on 02/14/2005 2:44:52 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen

If you can't tell the difference between an artificially created state and a living, breathing human being, I'm done wasting bandwidth on you.


88 posted on 02/14/2005 3:05:52 PM PST by MamaTexan (I am NOT a *legal entity*!)
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To: robertpaulsen; MamaTexan

But like I said, RP: the Constitution says AMONG the several states, not WITHIN a state. The Founding Fathers wanted to PROHIBIT the state governments from currying favor w/ other states via trade or taxing their citizens more if they buy products from one state vs. another--a FREE TRAFE ZONE was to be the original intent of the Constitution.

Notice that their intent was, as usual, was to enhance individual LIBERTY by prohibiting state governments in this issue. It wasn't to prohibit individuals (again, you are twisting the words of the Constitution to fit a Drug War agenda).

When the Founders used the word "regluate", they meant TO MAKE REGULAR....not to prohibit. The prohibition part was left to the states. When marijuana is grown w/in a state, & does not cross state lines, Congress has no legitimate right to be involved, as the 10th Amendment makes clear...& when the RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE has been expressed w/in a state to use marijuana for medical purposes, which the 9th Amendment says they have a right to do, the feds cannot legally destroy that right w/o blatantly stomping on the 9th Amendment.


89 posted on 02/14/2005 3:28:24 PM PST by libertyman
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To: robertpaulsen
You just posted it: "interstate commerce (is) commercial trade ... regulated by the federal government..." To regulate includes to prohibit. Don't you even read what you post?

That means genuine Kentucky bluegrass that grows wild
on the back forty fence row and is cured in that old
step-van that grandaddy junked in the back yard should
be fine then.

Wait, what's that plane spraying?

150 posted on 02/15/2005 10:32:39 AM PST by higgmeister
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