Posted on 10/26/2009 10:17:19 AM PDT by presidio9
The Justice Department says it's backing off the prosecution of people who smoke pot or sell it in compliance with state laws that permit "medical marijuana." Attorney General Eric Holder says "it will not be a priority to use federal resources to prosecute patients with serious illnesses or their caregivers." Party hardy! I mean -- let the healing begin!
I don't think the federal government should be spending a whole lot of time on small-time druggies, and I'm undecided about legalizing pot, which enjoys 44 percent support among the general public, according to a recent poll. Recreational use is not the wisest thing -- and if my 12-year-old son is reading this, that means you! -- but it's no more harmful than other drugs (e.g., alcohol) and impossible to eradicate. On the other hand, I worry it's a gateway to harder stuff. So I think we probably should have an open debate about decriminalization.
But it should be a real debate, about real decriminalization, and not clouded -- pardon the expression -- by hokum about
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...
So the drug war would continue with the manufacture and smuggling of everything from cocaine to zanax to heroin to X.
Can we use random drug testing of those seeking tax dollars?
” Besides, the objection government has to pot is that it gets you intoxicated. “
I think the objection the Federal Government has to legalizing marijuana is that it is so easy to grow that they would never be able to control (tax) it.
It is a simple weed and will grow in just about any conditions.
Same thing that applies to making ones own whiskey ... a simple procedure that can be done at home but massive amounts of time and money are spent by the government (still) in trying to stop people from making it as they (gov) can’t tax it if you don’t tell them about it.
“Medical Marijuana is an insult to our intelligence”
... no more than “Civil Forfeiture.”
“Two words:
States Rights.”
2 even better words:
Individual liberty
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a brief history
http://brainz.org/420-milestones-history-marijuana/
“Can we use random drug testing of those seeking tax dollars?”
Can we random drug test the entire federal government?
First?
Yep pretty much, but at least they would not be wasting time with the potheads.
There is no “small portable device” (short of blood test) that can look for myriads of other possibly impairing legal (Rx and non-Rx) substances in a driver. This makes as much a case for banning Benadryl as for keeping pot banned.
Virtue and knowledge would preclude abuse of potentially dangerous items, while permitting their use.
Current polling shows 58% support.
Watch out now.....you're sounding intelligent.
That's why we have a 10th amendment. If something different is tried by a few states....it won't put the entire nation at risk until the ramifications are felt. Then, if it seems a likely, safe, intelligent course.....other states would soon follow. If not....only one or two states must clean up their own messes.
The beauty of Federalism.
I have a friend who brews his own beer. The government has never got involved. Why is that?
Moot my rear end, I live in CA, so I know what the medical marijuana nonsense is.
I'm neither a doctor nor a cancer patient, and I can think of at least three other drugs that have the same effect. I pot is so effective, why not just isolate the compounds that produce these benefits?
Because "medical" marijuana is a trojan horse, nothing more.
The stuff reeks and makes me WANT to vomit when I smell it. I can’t imagine that crap making anyone feel better, especially when there are far more effective pain relief and relaxation drugs out there for people in the last stages of cancer.
California is insane.
Leftists love legalized pot.
“The highest level of support for decriminalizing the use of marijuana today is seen with self-described liberals, among whom 78% are in favor. In contrast, 72% of conservatives are opposed.”
Federalism. That’s like the nationally imposed (at the threat of withholding paid highway tax dollars from gasoline sales) 21 year old drinking age and 0.08 “intoxication” levels, right?
Tell him to try to distill his own whiskey and see if the ATF doesn’t mind.
Sure, that’s still illegal. That doesn’t mean that growing pot on a small scale would be if it were made illegal. Brewing beer on a small scale is perfectly legal.
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