Posted on 03/22/2008 5:52:18 PM PDT by kingattax
Rep. Barney Frank said he plans to file a bill to legalize "small amounts" of marijuana.
Frank announced his plans late Friday on the HBO show "Real Time," hosted by Bill Maher.
"I’m going to file a bill as soon as we go back to remove all federal penalties for the possession or use of small amounts of marijuana," Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, told Maher.
Frank didn’t define "small amounts." Efforts to reach Frank on Saturday were not immediately successful.
Frank said he’d filed a similar bill in the Massachusetts Legislature in the 1970s, but hasn’t tried since he was elected to Congress.
"I finally got to the point where I think I can get away with it," he said.
Frank said he thinks "its time for the politicians in this one to catch up to the public. The notion that you lock people up for smoking marijuana is pretty silly."
He told Maher he’d call the bill the "Make Room for Serious Criminals" bill
yES, i CAN’T STAND EITHER ONE OF THEM.
But I am for legalzing marijuana, Am not a user. would advocate strict laws for minors such as with alcohol. Clear out the prisons of marijuana users, save my tax dollars, and imprison real criminals and let the police go after rapists and killers and muggers.
PROHIBITION OF RELATIVELY BENIGN ( HELLLO...CAN YOU SAY ALCOHOL?) SUBSTANCES IS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE !
Seems Bahnie likes one Maryjane.
“Small Amounts” = any amount up to and including 10 metric tons, right Bawney?
And... who doesn’t?
The criminalization of alcohol required an Amendment to the Constitution (Prohibition.) That Amendment was later repealed. So where’s the Constitutional Amendment that authorizes the criminalization of “controlled substances,” such as Marijuana?
america's "first queer president?"
Seems like a very sensible measure to me. Why would anyone prefer the current situation where we have to release violent criminals for lack of room to hold them?
“Clear out the prisons of marijuana users...”
Prisons are not full of folks that are doing time for getting caught with a bag of dope in their pocket.
libertarian-utopianism alert.
Well, I guess they figured out Ron Paul wasn’t going to be able to do it for them.
“america’s “first queer president?””
Well, first openly gay president.
As for his idea, if it shall be legal to have “small quantities”, what’s the rationale to make “large quantities” illegal? Makes no sense other than to clear the prisons out.
-ccm
cough coughpolesmoker! Cough...ahem
I might need to get some tin foil here.
Ego trip alert.
This would be Okay if they keep Negro jazz musicians away from the white wimmin.
Where do you think the federal government is authorized by the Constitution to outlaw mj possession by individuals?
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