How sickening it us to read a poster on a supposedly conservative forum fantasuze about a federal jackboot locking someone up for practicing a vice in accordance with state law which the Constitution provides absolutely no power to outlaw.
When it comes to the Federal Controlled Substances Act, no matter what a state does or thinks, Federal Law or whichever is the more strict statute, takes priority.
Exactly. While I am disappointed that the citizens of WA, OR, and CO thought it best to assert states' rights in this area and not in others, and while I am no friend of dope-smoking hippies and hipsters, I cannot cheer for federal agents imposing themselves through force of arms upon citizens who have told them to pound sand.
We are going to see some 10th Amendment crises in the near future. We are rightly on the side of individual states when they wish to reject Obamacare or enforce their immigration law. We advocate the overturning of Roe vs. Wade (good luck with that now) so that individual states may decide their own abortion laws and not be dictated to by the federal government.
When federal law clashes with a state's right to govern itself according to the Constitution, you should err on the side of freedom. You cannot cheer the ATF, FBI or other agencies when they stick guns in the faces of people whose ideals you don't support , then wonder why they show up for your guns or to confiscate your property over a violation found somewhere in the pages of Obamacare or the tax code.
I also think it is ridiculous when we scream 'Hate Crime!' when a minority attacks a white person. We are not agitating for fairness, we are simply legitimizing the language and tactics of the Left's war on us. It is wrong to legislate thought, period. And it is wrong to desire a federal government that can legislate and enforce whatever it wants. Both are squarely unconstitutional. Like it or not, we will need to sometimes make common cause and ally ourselves with people and causes that seem alien in the greater fight against creeping tyranny and socialism.