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 ...
Marijuana addiction? That’s pretty funny. Only losers claim to be addicted to pot in order to get out of taking responsibility for their actions. Bigger losers let them get away with those lame excuses.
Quality of life is a non-argument. Unless it directly (note - DIRECTLY) interferes with the rights of another, it should be legal. Victimless crimes need to be taken off the books.
Your rant makes me think you believe alcohol is safer than pot.
...has to be, right? ...it's legal.
Don't make me pull stats on DUI deaths and other violent deaths contributed to alcohol.
Maybe your bf or hubby's lack of sexual interest & schizophrenia is based on something other than his pot smoking? ...Huh?
He wasn't taxed, he was fined for growing more than his quota, as set by the federal government.
Your rant is funny! ROTFL I don’t have a hubby or bf right now.
Don’t get me started on alcohol, either. I am afraid of it and had 2 relatives to die from alcoholism. Smart doing drugs or alcohol, NOT!
Selfishness is bad when all you care about is yourself. You set the example for others who are watching you. It is all about YOU, YOU, YOU when it comes to pot. YOU broke the law to get pot, YOU seek pleasure in smoking pot.
You are just as bad as Obama.
I would say the sme thing.In the state I live in one would have to be busted with over 3# before there is any jail time.As the other poster it is a $100 fine and is treated like a parking ticket except no points on your license f you fail to pay.
I think it is selfish of you to decide what others can do in their own home.As expelkained earleir most of us live in states where possession is considered to be equilivent to a parking ticket so if you have ever had one of those you are as guity of breaking the law as we are! What exactly is the problem with people enjoying their lives? Or does that bother you or something because of your lacking one?I can see why there is no husband or boyfirend....
explained....terrible typists.
Agreed! :)
OK, that's right. And the commerce clause was invoked even though he hadn't sold or traded his grain to anyone on the basis that the grain affected commerce because he would have had to buy it if he hadn't grown it.
Should drinking alcohol be illegal?
That's pretty much it. Basically, he was fined for the offense of attempting to be self-sufficient, and thereby not engaging in interstate commerce.
Simply YOU broke the law to get it! YOU put a foreign substance in your body! It is all about YOU, what gives YOU pleasure!
I have done very well without alcohol or marijuana... No worry of getting caught or if it has been laced with strange substance that could cause death or damage to my body.
If it happens that YOU should get sick, then we taxpayer have to take care of YOU because YOU were too dumb to say no in the first place.
Can you hold your likker? If not, then it should be illegal for YOU! If you can, then drink!
I can’t hold my likker because of 2 relatives could not hold theirs. I prefer not to drink but stay sober.
NO I take care of myself nothing to do with taxpayers at all in this house or the other two that I own. I did not break the law to do anything can you not read? In this state posession is decrimialized that MEANS NO CRIME DUH so stop shouting YOUR lies. And no there is nothing that can be laced on weed that can cause death but don’t let YOUR imagaination stop YOU from speading lies. Why are YOU so worried about my pleasure is it because you have none? I’ll have you know my IQ is over 140 so there is nothing dumb about me except for your insistance on this silly converstaion I’m having with an obivious busy body who has so much time she can worry about everyone else’s life....Sounds like you may have too much time on your hands or something? Has it not occured to you that expecting everyone to live up to what you approve of just might be selfish on YOUR part?
She seems to think any pleasure should be outlawed judging by her posting history.Nanny stater to the max!*eyeroll*
Actually, at all the parties I went to that pot was used, people passed it around. So really, they werent all that selfish.
As for the hyperbole, that was weak. Couldnt you have at least compared me to Hitler or maybe Vlad the Impaler?
Is it my imagination or are people getting downright nutty around here?
Yes, lets let the government decide who is suitable for which activity. Cant see any type of problem with that. Just because you make yourself unable to participate in freedoms doesnt mean other people should be able to.
Should the government be able to shut down websites based on whether people act responsibly on them? Who defines responsible?
And how does whether or not your relatives can hold their liquor affect your ability to hold it?
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