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

[curiosity]

then should we prosecute the bulimic and anorexic as well?

Our laws prosecute dealers, not users, so you analogy is invalid.

[curiosity]

...and the constitutional issues?

What constitutional issues?

[derheimwill]

... interstate commerce, states' rights, et al...

[rasblue]

Shame! What part of "interstate commerce" does the Supreme Court not understand?

Oh I forgot, marijuana is used as the whipping boy for all of America's ills, from psychosis to male pattern baldness to shoplifting.

[libertarianben]

Our laws prosecute dealers, not users, so you analogy is invalid.

Wrong.

[LenS]

This is dangerous. Why have election at all?

I don't recall the last election swinging on the issue of medical marijuana. And I remember that the marijuana party, aka the Libertarian Party, only got 0.32% of the vote (397,265 votes). But if I was smoking medical marijuana, I'd probably have trouble recalling what actually happened too.

[curiosity]

Okay, fine. If a user has a really really big stash for some reason, he might get thrown into prison like a dealer. But that's rare.

Mere users are rarely prosecuted, and if they are prosectuted, the most they get is a fine and/or some community service time. Big deal.

[libertarianben]

He/She wasn't talking about just this topic. They were saying that if the Courts keep making decisions for us then what's the point of voting for our leaders to represent us. Maybe you're on the weed if you couldn't understand the meaning of posts.

[jackieaxe]

What does George Bush mean when he says "...the freedom loving people of Iraq who yearn to be free?" and "freedom is on the march!"? He throws the "freedom" word around like a nickel but yet works hard to perpetuate the Drug War to the point of raiding homes of dying cancer patients and throwing them in jail for using marijuana to get over chemotherapy. This ruling isn't even legally sound since it throws state rights away.

Well, follow the money, if the Drug War ended tomorrow, it would economically impact the jobs of DEA drug agents, prison guards, police officers, lawyers, school physiologists, researchers at the Center for the Study of Substance Abuse at the CDC, the FDA, I'm sure I'm missing more than a few. Money would go away for the DARE grants, the pretty DARE cars, Midnight Basketball, the 3 billion a year we send to Columbia to kill Colombians, and I'm sure I'm missing a few. This money and these resources would better be directed back into our pockets, or toward the Terror War. Expending all this money by exploiting peoples weakness to "get high" and are doing harm only to themselves or a willing buyer/seller. (I'm not talking about kids.)

I guess this is compassionate conservatism, you spend like a democrat and you're mean like a republican.

[libertarianben]

That depends on many things.

[RasterMaster]

"So are we going to fill the prisons with cancer patients?"

If you remove the dope out of the equasion, the first step is to create as many criminals as possible....the next step is the court mandated (tax-payer provided) cancer drugs for inmates, then on to National Health Care for all prisoners and illegal immigrants. Incrementalism at its best, but where are the "States' Rights" crowd?

[beansox]

your wrong.

http://www.prop36.org/


Proposition 36 was passed by 61% of California voters in November 2000. This initiative allows people convicted of 1st and 2nd time nonviolent, simple drug possession to receive drug treatment instead of incarceration.

[Tarkin]

States rights....

[derheimwill]

Read your posts! You are no conservative, just a pseudo intellectual who got shunned by leftists in college. Get over it.

[NavVet]

Funny to see those on the left screaming states rights when it comes to smokin' the ganja.

[beansox]

"Mere users are rarely prosecuted, and if they are prosectuted, the most they get is a fine and/or some community service time. Big deal."


STOP. You have no idea what you are talking about.

[Doe Eyes]

Funny to see those on the left screaming states rights when it comes to smokin' the ganja.

And likewise, those from the right, taking the opposite position.

[libertarianben]

I scream states rights on many things, it does no good. The left and the right really need to understand the 10th amendment, it would help.

[Tarkin]

Scalia greaviously dissapointed me with his vote in this case...Chief Justice Thomas is the only possibility then...