[Second Amendment First]

Probably the only thing on which I would agree with Barney Frank.

It's long past time to end the war on drugs. Over a trillion dollars spent on it and what have we gained: militarized police forces, no knock warrants, drug gangs and cartels, corruption of law enforcement, mothers arrested for buying too much cold medicine, citizens and their dogs shot, patients in pain because of doctor intimidation. And the drugs are more readily available than ever.

If people want to harm themselves the government cannot and should not interfere. It's called freedom.

[Psalm 144]

Least of our worries. Big red herring. Early for red herring season. One has to wonder why.

[boomop1]

Then the states can tax it like cigarettes, a windfall.

[GSWarrior]

I can’t see this ever being approved by our crowned heads of state.

[corkoman]

Oh Noes! This is a direct threat to all the Nanny Statists.

Cannot allow people to make decisions for themselves! Cant have that.

[JRandomFreeper]

Who cares about smoking it... Will it be legal to grow for fiber and biomass? Lots more money there.

/johnny

[I Shall Endure]

As a bonus, if Obama opposes this - which he probably will - he pisses off a good chunk of his base.

[advance_copy]

One of the biggest problems we have is dope-heads who vote. Guess who they vote for.

I say, issue a federal “pot permit”. If you have the pot permit, you can keep your pot. But you cannot vote in any election.

Voting is something that pot-heads should not be allowed to do. No more stoner-vote. It has done enough damage already.

[Responsibility2nd]

Bawney Fwank is a Libertarian?

 

 

 

Makes Sense!

[TigersEye]

Let the states? Why would the states need permission from the Feds to institute laws on an issue that the Feds have no authority to make laws about in the first place?

So much for Ron Paul's Federalist views of the Constitution. He's showing himself a fraud on that with this move.

[pallis]

While they are at it, free all the non-violent prisoners who haven’t committed any crimes other than their personal drug use, especially if the drug was Marijuana.

[tacticalogic]

The States shouldn’t need the federal government’s permission to do this. They never granted the federal government the authority to control it in the first place.

[ExTxMarine]

I used to think that legalizing drugs was a no brainer - just as you stated that the war on drugs has been a dismal FAILURE! I mean, it has only been “slightly” less effective than the original prohibition amendment! /sarc

However, when Barney Frank thinks it is a good idea, I have to seriously consider that I am mistaken in my thought process. Maybe this is Frank’s “a stopped watch is correct twice a day” moment!

[cripplecreek]

I’m all for letting the states do as they wish but I don’t buy the utopian view of the results of marijuana legalization. Others will be harmed and there will be a whole boatload of new laws to follow.

[AD from SpringBay]

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.

They smell the money. If the states legalize it, the quality will go in the toilet, there will be a three-month waiting period for a fifteen-dollar joint, and the jails will suddenly have a whole lot of extra cots.

[ken5050]

Where to begin?

1.You want to add 20 million or so to the Soc Sec disability rolls?

2. You want to see your auto insurance premiums double/triple?

I can go on, and on..

Remember, 99.9% of addicts today started with MJ....

[MrEdd]

Birds of a feather.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Waste of time. Three-quarters of the country is still pro prohibition. It’s going nowhere in the House and the sponsors know it.

Total red herring.

[Responsibility2nd]

Probably the only thing on which I would agree with Barney Frank.

 

 

You really should be ashamed. First you libs take on the moon-bat buffoonery of Ron Paul as your feckless leader.

 

Now you jump on board the Barney Frank bandwagon? Hope you dont catch some nasty disease.

 

What's next? Would you endorse Weiner if he were to also support legal dope smoking?

When you consider the fact that NO TRUE CONSERVATIVE supports this pro-dope BS, then do you start to wonder if there if something WRONG with you?

[arderkrag]

It's long past time to end the war on drugs.

Yep. It's sad how long this nonsense war has been run, with who knows how many agencies rofiting from it. Even more sad is how many "conservatives" turn into authoritarians when the big bad drug issue comes up.

[Little Ray]

And while they are at it, they should kick all non-violent potheads out of prison.