[Bokababe]

If marijuana is legalized here and the Feds ignore the State Law & continue to prosecute, every Democrat in the State will be in the hot seat as to what side they are on -- Obama's or California's?

Marijuana legalization is a very big pile of doodoo for the Democrats and they just don't know it yet!

[Ken H]

Same goes for Republicans. The CA GOP talks a good game, but it remains to be seen whether they will stay true to their stated constitutional position, or turn into Drug War whores. From the CA GOP website:

Federalism

We believe that political matters should be resolved by the local or state governments unless such matters are expressly reserved for the Federal Government by the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The Federal Government has repeatedly violated the Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution by encroaching on the rights that are reserved and delegated to the states and to the People. The California Republican Party firmly believes that the best governments are those most accountable to the People.

We heed Thomas Jefferson's warning: "When all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another."

http://www.cagop.org/index.cfm/republican_party_platform.htm

[Tolsti2]

You got it, democrats and pot go together incredibly well. To support one is to support the other. To bash one is to bash the other. They take that very seriously.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Let me try to open your mind a bit: Imagine how many federal and state laws would be unnecessary and how many drug dealers would be put out of business if recreational drug use was decriminalized.

When was there a turf war over the sale of alcohol? Probably just before Prohibition was repealed.

Who benefits most from making drugs illegal?
1. Politicians who are in favor of a totalitarian government because it gives them more excuses to snoop on you and imprison you.

2. The various law enforcement agencies because they need a bigger budget to chase people who break the drug laws (plus they get to grow their little kingdoms with money taken from SUSPECTED drug activity)

3. Drug dealers. The higher the penalties and the more police enforcement, the more they can charge for their drugs.

Who benefits least? The people who have their rights invaded by the government and their safety destroyed by dealers fighting over turf.

So before you say that drug laws are necessary to help keep order to society -—— “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. “ William Pitt the Younger