Posted on 03/26/2014 9:58:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
So much for the rhetoric of “tax the hell out of it”.
Decriminalize and keep the tax out of it.
I worry more about the political signal that saying we can't let this be a State's Rights issue because we can't trust the States to make the right decision sends.
And we sure want more people out there driving DUI.
National marijuana prohibition is dead and it isn’t coming back. The states are dealing with it now, as they should have been all along per the Tenth Amendment.
Treatment? Like an antibiotic? Feh.
People tend to crow the most about states' rights when it involves an issue they support.
But when it's something they are against - marijuana, assisted suicide, gay marriage, etc - they become the Fed Govt's biggest cheerleaders.
It's NOT!!!!
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It's really NOT!!!! Wah!!
Lol :o)!!
I know it’s quaint, but there was a time in this country that taxes existed to raise funds, not to accomplish social engineering goals. Its no better when we do it for our goals.
Disappointing, as Malkin has been one of the few pundit/columnists left that I stuck with, as so many of the so-called conservative writers went off the rails in so many ways (hello, Ann Coulter!). I don’t agree with Malkin here. Ah, well. To hell with ‘em all. I’ve pretty much stopped reading each and every one of them, just like I stopped watching FoxNews.
so which drug do you pin the intoxication and incompetance on?....alcohol always gets the wrap because its politically correct to attack alcohol while other stuff like weed and cocaine just get that little wink wink...afterall, all the beautiful people use the coke.....
Legalize pot and increase the vocabulary of the teenagers. Words such as; like, um ya know, like, wow, dude, awesome, like yea, cool, DUDE, ya know, uh yea, bummer and other words of brilliance will become the most commonly used vernacular of the useless idiot generation. Aspirations of nothingness come to mind for their future./Sad
not sure what you are saying, CO is taxing the hell out of it.
If it needs to be under federal authority then we need to get an amendment. If they think we can abuse the Commerce Clause without unintended consequences they're pissing into the wind.
Go downtown and buy a dimebag furkreissakes
It’s the same malarkey used when they say “the money will be directed towards education”.
Pass it on it’s own merit.
Dangling a carrot of wealth for the state while reducing other taxes is bogus, specially when they are setting up ways to circumvent the tax (and subsidize people’s pot use).
Nobody ever buys my glasses or contacts (if I buy an insurance plan, it pretty much works out to pre-tax income being set aside and “maxes out” at about the rate I put in).
But free pot and sex pills on the public’s dime. Okay.
I think the proper question is not whether marijuana is harmful, it is, or whether it leads to undesirable collateral problems, it does, the question is, are the disadvantages of legalizing marijuana greater or less than the disadvantages of continuing to, at least notionally, make it illegal?
In my view the corruption and general disregard for the rule of law is so harmful to a society which is already disintegrating partly because of a general disregard for the rule of law that I believe the harm of keeping it technically illegal far exceeds the societal harm of legalizing it. I believe that we are reaping all the disadvantages of illegality,such as driving under the influence, and none of the advantages of making marijuana legal, such as disincentivizing criminal activity.
At the same time we are not reaping the advantages of making marijuana illegal, such as reducing consumption rates.
The war on drugs is lost, and the war on corruption is about to be lost as well.
Yep. America-2014 for you. A nation of dopeheads and degenerates.
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