You're preaching to the choir.
Pragmatism has nothing in common with the drug legalizers. They're hanging their hopes on an activist court overturning 100 years of established law.
To what end? The best they could hope for would be a court opinion turning over the intrastate drug regulation to the states. Of course, that was the exact scenario right before Prohibition, and Prohibition came about because that scenario wasn't working.
Would that work -- having each state make the drug legalization decision? No, unless, as with alcohol, every state legalized the exact same drugs. Even if every state legalized marijuana, there would still be the exact same problems we have today with every other drug.
The bottom line is that they're not solving anything. It's a waste of time. They know it and fall back on the argument that "it's unconstitutional" and their efforts are merely to correct that.
Uh-huh.
I concede nothing respecting the Constitutionality of what Congress did, nor do I condone a great deal of what has been legislated, but I do acquiesce based entirely on pragmatism.
Are you guys so obsessed with smoking dope that you can't see pragmatically [past] the end of your noses?
Paulson 'eggs on' confused thinking:
You're preaching to the choir. Pragmatism has nothing in common with the drug legalizers [constitutionalists]. They're hanging their hopes on an activist [rational] court overturning 100 years of established socialistic] law.
To what end? The best they could hope for would be a court opinion turning over the intrastate drug regulation to the states. Of course, that was the exact scenario right before Prohibition, and Prohibition came about because that scenario wasn't working.
Prohibition came about because the socialist's scenario [that the majority can 'morally' rule] was adopted. Pragmatically, it was repealed when the 'scenario' proved to be false.
Would that work -- having each state make the drug legalization decision? No, unless, as with alcohol, every state legalized the exact same drugs.
Specious argument, -- as prior to drug criminalization, no drugs were 'illegal'.
Even if every state legalized marijuana, there would still be the exact same problems we have today with every other drug.
Nonsense. Every state could reasonably regulate every type of drug, just as they now regulate every type of booze.
The bottom line is that they're not solving anything. It's a waste of time. They know it and fall back on the argument that "it's unconstitutional" and their efforts are merely to correct that. Uh-huh.
The real bottom line is that you drug warriors are not solving anything. The 'war' is not only a waste of time, it is destroying our rule of law.
Warriors know it and fall back on the argument that "majority rule is constitutional", while they ignore prohibitions affect on that document.