Great answer.
Posted on 09/08/2012 8:02:50 AM PDT by Lexington Green
The issue of legalizing medical marijuana is not high on the priority list for the Romney/Ryan ticket. However, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan on Thursday told Colorado station KRDO-TV that legalizing medical marijuana is a decision that should be made by individual states.
“My personal position on these issues has been let the states decide what they want to do with these things,” he said. “This is something that is not a high priority of ours.”
Colorado is currently mulling whether to legalize marijuana and residents will vote on the issue in November with “Amendment 64” on the ballot.
But Ryan told KRDO-TV not to mistake his position as support for medical marijuana, saying he “doesn’t believe” in the initiative but still fells it is an issue best resolved by the states.
“I personally don’t agree with it, but this is something Coloradans have to decide for themselves,” he added.
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Good. This is the correct answer to any question like this - “None of FedGov’s business, let the states decide.”
I wouldn’t arrest anyone who does.
Follow what the Founding Fathers intended when they wrote the Constitution?
There's a revolutionary idea!
I wouldn’t arrest anybody for using any kind of marijuana. I dang sure wouldn’t waste billions of dollars making the cartels richer everyday. Decriminalizing pot takes the profit out of it. The war on poverty only made more poverty, the war on drugs only made drugs more proliferate and profitable. Come to think of it, maybe the war on women isn’t such a bad idea.
I like what Paul had to say especially living in Colorado. The only way I would smoke week would be for medical reasons but otherwise I wouldn’t touch it. I have voted for it each time it has been on the ballet and in some ways as giving the finger to the federal government.
I would not arrest anyone that truly needed it for medical reasons. However, more than 99% of the people supporting it do not need it for medical reasons. They want it simply to get high.
If the medical marijuana crowd ever wants to get support, they need to make the stoners stop talking in front of cameras.
I think the idea of letting states decide is a wise one. That’s where the 10th Amendment puts the responsibility.
You simply have know idea what you are talking about.
Great answer.
I agree....The Feds should concentrate on stopping drug trafficking from foreign countries. They’re doing about as good a job at stopping it as “ICE” with the illegals.
As long as WE have thought it through and have a plan to keep it out of kids hands and not used on the job, using equipment etc, then I am ok with it. What I am not ok with is throwing up our hands because we are lazy and decide it is too hard. You cannot simply quit because the libs are overloading the sytem.
“In the early days of the Republic, it would have been unthinkable that Congress could prohibit the local cultivation, possession, and consumption of marijuana.”
Justice Clarence Thomas
About time. Now, in 1,2,3,4,5, ...... here come the Ron Paul Bashers, because ‘Real Republicans’ find the idea of the Founder’s Actual Intent to be Abhorrent.
Fed Govt. Mind your own Damn Business!
While all the liberals on the Supreme court voted against medical marijuana in Gonzales v Raich, Clarence Thomas voted in favor of it. That must have really confused those on the left.
Liberals viewed it as a handle for Federal power, which is even more sacred to them than weed is.
I agree. I recognize some limited medical benefit but for the most part its simply lying. I’d be a lot more accepting if they simply told the truth and said they wanted to get high.
If its for medical uses I want to know why it isn’t subject to the laws of other prescription drugs. About a year back there was a “doctor” in Lansing MI. who was giving out med pot prescriptions to people who registered to vote. Try that with Xanax or OxyContin and see where it gets you.
that is a plain vanilla malpractice issue.
It’s a shame, really. America just can’t get past the giggle factor when it comes to medical marijuana. Unfortunately, sick people are being denied helpful medication – and we are persecuting the sick, dying, and lame. Sad.
Although I am happy to leave the issue to the states, the obvious remedy for this legal/medical morass is to reschedule marijuana as a Schedule 2 drug, like morphine.
Of course, the ultimate solution is to legalize marijuana – treat it like beer. That’s what free people would do.
Drinking is prohibited on the job, it would not be an issue to prohibit cannabis.
Drinking and driving is illegal, so would cannabis use.
There is an age limit for drinking, the same would go for cannabis.
It’s just not an issue.
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