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Do you support PA’s authority under the Tenth Amendment to regulate intrastate marijuana as it sees fit?

Of course I do - but so what??

So, some FR Drug Warriors don't support that authority.

If you want to "deregulate" or "decriminalize" something, then just do that...make it legal and then back away. Don't create a new government bureaucracy and claim that you're doing everybody a favor. I would have thought that point would be clear enough in this forum.

How did you expect your belief in that first sentence to be clear when this is the first time you've said it? A number of FR Drug Warriors make statements about a new government bureaucracy even though they oppose even a lightly-(or un-)regulated legalization.

Do you support making it legal and then backing away?

How did you expect your belief in that first sentence to be clear when this is the first time you've said it?

Because that wasn't the main point (as I said)... it was "...I believe this is yet another attempt to propose government control and additional taxation."

This Democrat is purporting to provide a benefit to society - to reduce the expenses involved in the War on Drugs. Yet - like all Democrats do - he proposes a large government control program to "correct" the problem... one likely to cost a pile of money to implement, and with a bunch of new regulations and restrictions that (I feel) will be unenforceable (or maybe 'selectively enforceable' is a better phrase).

That next sentence (about 'make it legal and back away') is my general view on things I believe the government should remove itself from. I said it in this context because it's 180° removed from what this guy proposed. He allegedly wants to reduce costs? Provide more freedom? Then fine - do that. But don't pretend to be a defender of the people when you're instituting Yet Another Government Program to add more control and more taxation.

Now all that said: you want to know if I would legalize marijuana or drugs in general (even though I'm trying to stay on topic that this is all really about another Democrat control tactic). I'll answer: No. The reason for this position has nothing to do with personal liberty (for if that was the only consideration, I wouldn't care). I do believe that it leads to damage for not only the users, but to their families and others not even connected with their proclivities.

But IF you say that public policy is improved by legalizing the stuff, then do it the right way - don't pretend to do so and use this as a façade to add more governmental control.