CPAC Audience: Legalize It!

Breitbart ^ | 03-07-2014 | John Sexton

[PaulCruz2016]

There are things you expect to see at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and there are things you don't. One of the things you probably don't is an audience cheering and applauding arguments for legalizing pot and bemoaning the war on drugs.

A panel titled "Rocky Mountain High" held Thursday afternoon started out as a debate between Mary Katherine Ham of Fox and Hot Air and Christopher Beach a staffer for former Drug Czar William Bennett's radio show. But as the debate wore on it became clear the real disagreement was between Beach and the overwhelming majority of the audience.

The Q&A portion of the panel lasted well over an hour. Person after person stood up to challenge Beach's position on the war on drugs or the dangers of pot. Toward the end of the 100 minutes it had become a kind of joke. After one tough question by someone who clearly favored legalization, Beach turned to Ham and said "I guess that one's for me."

[Mariner]

" I predict the drug warriors will look like the gun grabbers. "

I see 'em as two peas in the same pod. They both have an insatiable desire to tell me what I can and cannot do.

No boundaries.

They're right damnit so they're going to compel everyone to comply with their view of the world.

It's the same philosophy that led to prohibition.

And the results will be the same.

[Vaduz]

Talking to an audience cheering and applauding arguments for legalizing pot is like talking to a brain dead person their are alive but can’t think.

[blueunicorn6]

How do drug users vote? What are the statistics on this? Are they Democrats or Republicans?

[Vision Thing]

potheads are pwned by a plant.

weakness.

[Ken H]

Do you support the Tenth Amendment authority of states to legalize intrastate marijuana if that is their choice?

[deadrock]

The beginning of the end of people not recognizing it is toast.

[discostu]

The English language was not designed to transmit sarcasm in the written form, it’s a verbal language for illiterate people. Also have you seen some of the drug warrior posts? So the answer is “yes” you always need the sarcasm tag, unless you’ve developed a solid reputation for never being serious.

[OneWingedShark]

Do you support the Tenth Amendment authority of states to legalize intrastate marijuana if that is their choice?

This is true; the problem though is that people have been indoctrinated/conditioned to think that the War on Drugs is a Good Thing™ — despite the fact that it is entirely contraconstitutional and destructive to the majority of the Bill of Rights. In short, it is impossible to be a Constitutionalist and support the War on Drugs.

(The only amendment from the Bill of Rights that hasn't been weakened/destroyed is the 3^rd.)

[Clintonfatigued]

My tagline says it all.

[DManA]

And the War on Drugs is a Good Thing™ crowd consistently invokes the slander that anyone who oppose it ENDORSES drug use.

[Matchett-PI]

"The beginning of the end of people not recognizing it is toast."

An Assyrian clay tablet dating to around 2800 B.C. bears the inscription: “Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching.”

:)

[Iron Munro]

Do you support the Tenth Amendment authority of states to legalize intrastate marijuana if that is their choice?

No.

I wouldn't support the legalization of heroin, LSD, abortions, pedophilia, bestiality or some other things either.

[Ken H]

So you support the expansive Wickard Commerce Clause at the expense of the Tenth Amendment.

[444Flyer]

Well said. Bump!

[SunkenCiv]

Same goes for intrastate abortion, intrastate gay marriage, intrastate sales tax, intrastate income tax; intrastate minimum wage, intrastate amnesty for illegals...

[dalereed]

Time to eliminate CPAC!

Make possession of marajuana a felony!

[OneWingedShark]

Make possession of marajuana a felony!

Why do you hate the Bill of Rights?

1. Amd. 10 -- Limits the authority of the federal government to that which is explicitly delegated by the states by the Constitution.
2. Amd. 9 -- Declares that the enumeration of rights [in the Bill of Rights] is not exhaustive -- therefore things like travel may indeed be a right.
3. Amd. 8 -- Prohibits both excessive bail and excessive fines, both of which are common in drug cases.
4. Amd. 7 -- Guarantees the right to jury trial for civil matters exceeding $20, asset forfeiture rules/regulations make this a lie.
5. Amd. 6 -- Guarantees a speedy trial (denied by courts being clogged), an impartial jury (violated by the routine tacking-on of drug charges & the jury instructions that one must find guilty even if one does not agree with the law), to be confronted by the witnesses against him (violated by secret police informants).
6. Amd. 5 -- How does “Comprehensive Forfeiture Act of 1984” comply with “No person shall [...] be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”?
7. Amd. 4 -- Kentucky v King, wherein the USSC acknowledges that the 4th Amendment requires warrants… then proceeds to declare that warrantless searches are acceptable:

   “The Fourth Amendment expressly imposes two requirements: All searches and seizures must be reasonable; and a warrant may not be issued unless probable cause is properly established and the scope of the authorized search is set out with particularity. [...] The proper test follows from the principle that permits warrantless searches: warrantless searches are allowed when the circumstances make it reasonable, within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, to dispense with the warrant requirement.”

8. Amd. 3 -- Nothing here… yet.
9. Amd. 2 -- Arguably, the “prohibited persons” from the `68 GCA (which also violates multiple amendments, as well as the prohibition on ex post facto law).
10. Amd. 1 -- Religious freedom is denied via the war on drugs (see Smith), there are stories of “legalization”-advocacy publishers being raided/harassed.

The War on Drugs has destroyed the Bill of Rights, period.

[dalereed]

Instant execution would be better!

I have 2 dead cousins that I would include that as far as i’m concerned should have been executed as teenagers instead of craping up the world with their drugs for years.

[Impy]

I look forward to seeing the hippies’ reaction when Phillip Morris starts selling weed.

[OneWingedShark]

Instant execution would be better!

I see you have a particular hatred of the 5th amendment.