Posted on 06/22/2011 1:23:14 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
A bipartisan team of Reps. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and Ron Paul, R-Texas, will introduce federal legislation that would permit states to legalize, regulate, tax and control marijuana without federal interference.
The legislation will be unveiled Thursday by Frank, an outspoken liberal Democrat, and the libertarian Paul, who is running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
The bill would limit the U.S. government role in marijuana enforcement to interdiction of cross-border or inter-state smuggling. Citizens would be able to legally grow, use or sell cannabis in states which have legalized the forbidden weed.
The legislation is the first bill to be introduced in Congress that would end federal marijuana prohibition.
In a preview of the legislation, the Marijuana Policy Project noted that last week marked the 40th Anniversary of when President Nixon declared that the federal government was at war with marijuana and other drugs.
Nixon had rejected recommendations by a presidential panel that the country move toward decriminalization and an education and treatment-based drug policy.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.seattlepi.com ...
Your gonna need to smoke pot to get through another 4 years of the BUFFOON in office.
In CO all you need is a MM card and you can grow up to five plants at a time. If you say you need edible marijuana you can grow ten plants at a time. Plus you can sell it back to the co-ops.
I’m proably older than you(50) because I have you beat. ;)
I’ve nevber voted for a democrat that I can think of.....I even skip the races that only have a democrat running in them at state and local level.
I’ve never voted for a democrat that I can think of.....I even skip the races that only have a democrat running in them at state and local level.
I haven’t either. Never! Not a one. I’m getting quite tired of half-stepping, backstabbing RINOs too.
The war on drugs is not conservative, as it gives the feds a huge amount of power to delve into our lives and finances that they wouldn't normally have or need.
You shouldn’t point out the truth to the anti drug use folks they always want to blame the drug for whatever personal problems someone they know has had rather than blame the person for it so MJ becomes the reason that so and so became an addict.Which we all know is not true you can alway find something starting with addicts and working backwards...why I bet 99% of them went to Kindergarten too and *gasp* All had candy sometime in their lives....
Too bad I didn’t include the /sarcasm tag on my remark. You may be one of the few ‘lucky’ ones to escape the damage that MJ has on people...
By the way, when you smoked weed, did you act goofy? Just curious...
Well, anyone who smoked pot 40 years has to have their cognitive abilities impaired to support legalization of pot.
There are also many other consitions that can greatly benefit from it’s use.I’d be a wonderful case study if anyone wanted to study me as I’ve been type one diabetic that has avoided 99% of all side effects for the past 41 years I’ve had it.I know someone with MS who has been going for nearly as long as I have and for the same reason.
That is an opinion that isn’t supported by any facts. Perhaps you could explain why a prohibition on alcohol required a constitutional amendment and prohibition of other drugs does not. You could demonstrate your amazing intellectual skills and knowledge in doing so.
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OH please more statics taken from going backwards....if you start with schizophrenics and work backwards you can find all sorts of things. I’d challege your sex drive comment too as my hubby has been chasing me for over 25 years and it has not stopped in the least.
Well hubby is 53 and he has worked himself down to 4 or 5 times a week....he still thinks about it all of the time though.....
Would you stop with your silly comments.You do realize that the rate of people who have smoked pot in the udner 60 age range is upwards of 85% so if those were true wouldn’t we see a huge increase in birth defects rather than the usual 5% of all births?
Don’t expect an answer. Prohibitionists never bother to recognize their previous failed experiment.
Anyone who claims to be a conservative and favors the Drug War is shallow in the extreme, with little if any regard for either the constitution or individual rights. Common sense doesn’t really register for those people either.
I and my hubby are both in our 50’s and it hasn’t stopped us much at all.Age has decresed it froma twice a day thing down to 4-5 times a week but I bet that doesn’t qualify as reduced sex drive right? *eyeroll*
Because people realized that people who want to fulfill their own selfish desires are going to do it (drink alcohol and/or smoke pot), anyhow, anyway. So, they didn’t pass the law to prohibit drugs. That is what YOU and others are, selfish, who support legalization of pot.
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