Great answer.
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.
Great answer.
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!
Really? Excellent! I didn't know that. MM is a farce and pot should be treated the same as any vegetable/herb/weed by the law.
Anything that fosters an examination of the original intent of the Commerce Clause vs how it’s being used by Congress is a good thing.
It is good to see that Paul Ryan understands this, just as he understands fiscal policy.
See, for further development on the separation of powers (and function), Constitutional Overview.
William Flax
I agree with Ryan it’s a state issue and really isn’t as important as some pot heads make it out to be. I’ve never smoked a joint in my life and I doubt I’d start now, I am against medical marijuana though. Why should people with fake medical problems be allowed to smoke but no one else???
http://www.lawnix.com/cases/wickard-filburn.html
This gift from the Roosevelt statist era was never good law or public policy. It’s none of their damned business.
Ryan recognizes this and good for him and Romney. Ryan has said federal nib-nosing on this issue “won’t be a priority under a Romney administration”.
Let’s hope they’ll leave Arizona alone as well. If they won’t, like busses there’s always another election to straighten out the Beltway masters of men.
The federal government under Obama and Holder has forgotten who the parents are: the 57 states.
The mouse in my pocket and I will remind them in 58 days.