SUPREME COURT RULING: You can arrest those using marijuana for medical purposes

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Per Fox News:

The Supreme Court has ruled Medical Marijuana as illegal.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Nobody is going to go after the cancer victim with a plant or two IMO unless they advertise or pass it on recreationaly or for sale.

This whole case was brought about by the DEA busting a cancer patient for growing six plants. Six. In the grand scheme of things, quantity-wise, that's not even a pimple on a bug's ass.

You just enjoy sounding off, don't you? Honestly, you don't bring very much to the table.

[A CA Guy]

Notice I said """A LITTLE ALCOHOL""".

Sure, you can take a lot and it could knock you out.
The point is, that with alcohol, in low moderation, it is actually good for you.

[A CA Guy]

Well, six plants would be a few more than one, yep.

How did they find out about these plants by the way?

[conserv13]

When agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration raided Monson's home, they seized six cannabis plants. If the Federal Government can regulate growing a half-dozen cannabis plants for personal consumption (not because it is interstate commerce, but because it is inextricably bound up with interstate commerce), then Congress' Article I powers--as expanded by the Necessary and Proper Clause--have no meaningful limits. Whether Congress aims at the possession of drugs, guns, or any number of other items, it may continue to appropriate state police powers under the guise of "regulating commerce."

That was Clarence Thomas.

[zbigreddogz]

Yet another power-grab by the feds over the drug issue.

I've never smoked pot in my life, but it's still stupid that states that want it can't have it.

[Bones75]

"Sadly,
This life long republican voter who voted for Bush will never again vote for a republican. I can no longer support a party that will not preserve and protect the Constitution."

I am rapidly going in that same direction, and have been for a while. This is just another sign that there are no conservatives left in American politics, just liberals of different types. I have just about had it. I could care less what happens anymore.

Let Hillary have the presidency, it makes no difference anymore.

Oh, and thank god those dangerous cancer patients will be grabbed up from off their couch inside their own homes and put in a cage. I feel alot safer. Think I'll go out and buy a bottle of Wild Turkey to celebrate.

[A CA Guy]

Yeah, you've read some of the basement chronicles, I can tell! lol

[ex 98C MI Dude]

I might suggest then that you re-read Romans 9.31-33, especially "they sought it not by faith, but as it were of works". You might have a different interpretation of that than any I have heard/seen. The stumbling block may have been placed there by God, but it is of man's own free will that he stumbles over it. Likewise with governments.

I will refrain from responding in kind about the 'put a sock in it' comment.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Well, six plants would be a few more than one, yep.

No kidding, brainiac, and the fact that the DEA swooped in and busted this person for six plants means your ridiculous statement that small fish are given slaps on the wrist is crap. Like another poster on this thread wrote, logic isn't your strong point, is it?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

That was Clarence Thomas.

His dissent was one of the best legal arguments I've read in a long time.

[conserv13]

I also liked how he disagreed with Scalia. They seldom disagree, but in this case he really ripped Scalia a new one.

[mugs99]

Let Hillary have the presidency, it makes no difference anymore.
Oh, and thank god those dangerous cancer patients will be grabbed up from off their couch inside their own homes and put in a cage. I feel alot safer. Think I'll go out and buy a bottle of Wild Turkey to celebrate

I'm with you, let Hillary have the presidency!
I'm heading out to buy a bottle and I'm not even a drinker. I never thought I'd live to see the day the Constitution was destroyed...and by a republican administration!
...

[Redcloak]

I feel safer now. I was living in constant fear at the idea of a terrorist using maryjewwanna to treat his "glaucoma". Now we can devote more resources toward protecting us and our chirlins from this wicked scrourge.

[coloradan]

Then you agree with libertarians about more than that one thing!

[antiRepublicrat]

I wouldn't use pot even if I had x disease. I refuse to become addicted to it.

Marijuana is not addictive, but it is habit-forming, unlike cigarettes which are both habit-forming and highly addictive.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Really there is no need for federal representatives either. You just need a Senate to confirm judges with the Presdient's advice (yes I know that's backwards, but let's face reality). Sure, the judges let Congress have a say in this matter, but that's probably just the calm before the storm as they gear up for their next big judicial legislative spree.

I find this case really strange on many levels, and I don't know what I think about it myself. I think legal pot is a very bad idea, but I don't know whether it should be a federal issue or not. I'm inclined to think that since we have long had an FDA that regulates food and drugs at the federal level, what's the big deal about pot being a federal issue? What's so special about this one drug? It is hardly the nail in the federalist coffin, especially not on the subject of food and drugs.

When taxpayers are GUARANTEED to be free from the burden of increased violence plus other social and economic costs related to drugs, then maybe I will have a stronger opinion regarding its free use and distribution. In the meantime, cancer is still going to hurt whether or not the patient can get stoned. But widespread drug usage will probably just reward irresponsible citizens while burdening responsible citizens. I fail to see how that promotes freedom.

[A CA Guy]

"Sadly, This life long republican voter who voted for Bush will never again vote for a republican. I can no longer support a party that will not preserve and protect the Constitution. Let Hillary have the presidency, it makes no difference anymore."

Oh yeah, sounds like a big previous Republican supporter to me! Those big Republican backers have illegal drugs right on top of their list I guess, we see that every day from Republicans.

Good luck to you and this supposed new revelation of your third party thinking. LOL

[YOUGOTIT]

The Constitution says that the States and the People have all power not granted to the federal government. A law that feds pass that is in conflict with the powers in the Constitution should be declared unconstitutional.

[newgeezer]

I will refrain from responding in kind about the 'put a sock in it' comment.

The first time you put up that insulting strawman ("your argument is that whatever the .gov does is right"), I explained myself. When you did it again ("by your interpretation, no one can do any wrong"), it seemed decorum wasn't getting the message across.

[JeffAtlanta]

I never thought I'd live to see the day the Constitution was destroyed...and by a republican administration!

Bush had a chance to be remembered along side the likes of Ronald Reagan. Instead, with all of the damage that he has done to the country, he will more likely be compared to Jimmy Carter.