Posted on 06/23/2014 12:17:27 PM PDT by Kaslin
Libertardians want ALL DRUGS legal for everyone
Pot is many times more potent than in the 60’s and you think it’s just “harmless fun”? Pass some out to the kindergarteners then.
As Reagan once alluded, the things we stand for and the direction we choose - whether we hold and value the Constitution as the rule of law and the protector of our God-given freedoms - are ultimately not questions of Left or Right but Up or Down.
If you're saying the only way these things will be corrected is by federal enforcement which the Constitution does NOT allow, rather than the states as the people of each state see fit, then it looks like big socialist government tyranny and the despotic rule of man is for you.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
That’s the text of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution. Now, it’s up to you. Please show me the section, clause or amendment of the Constitution that grants the federal government the power to regulate what substances citizens put into their own bodies. I am betting that you cannot do so. If not, it would seem that the Tenth Amendment would apply.
That's a good thing: it means less harmful smoke inhalation to achieve the same high.
The Cartels hate legalization efforts in the states. It devalues their product, it creates competition from small growers. It’s lose lose for them as they know they can’t get licenses to peddle their skunk weed.
I’d dismantle 95% of the federal government and the pot-head NAMBLAtarians still call me a despot tyrant-loving socialist.
Simply amazing view of conservatism you have.
Prohibitionists avoid the Tenth Amendment like the plague.
There seems to me to be a superb solution in permitting large scale hemp production.
First of all, hemp grows in marginal farmland, so it would not be like the ethanol disaster, displacing quality cropland.
Second of all, known products made from hemp, especially paper and cloth, would be worth billions to the US economy every year. The paper industry could adapt to hemp paper production, instead of wasting valuable lumber in making pulp. This would drive the price of lumber down which would stimulate construction. Hemp paper is pH neutral, and can last hundreds of years, not just decades.
Importantly, the quality of marijuana is based on the quality of the pollen used to fertilize female plants for seed. But when female plants only are grown, their growers do not want them to be fertilized, because they then stop emitting the resin that contains the drug.
So a profusion of hemp pollen impacts marijuana production in two ways: it fertilizes female plants, ending their production of resin; and then they produce inferior seed that makes much less potent marijuana.
The bottom line is that hemp production is terrible for marijuana production. Over the course of years, unless the marijuana is grown indoors, its quality will continue to decline.
So what’s not to like? A new industry that makes lots of jobs, while reducing the potency of marijuana.
Wow, three strawmen in one sentence.
Great! Rand Paul agrees with Obama on foreign policy, amnesty, gay marriage and dope. Definitely a non-partisan type of guy. And that’s exactly the vote he will get.
Far out, man. Rand Paul is a stone groove!
This kind of crap is not welcome here on Free Republic. We Freepers stand for small government. Small enough to lock you up for smoking a plant, and no smaller. Which is pretty big, actually.
I KNOW that the laws that allow the government to steal your property on the merest suspicion that your property was acquired with drug money would be obsolete. I know that the laws that prevent you from taking large sums of cash outside the US would be equally obsolete. I know that we will be better off without hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers whose primary job is to stop Joey from smoking a doobie, watching cartoons and eating Cheetos. I know it will be cheaper to treat drug offenders than jailing them.
“Joey”?
Does that imply a kid?
I don’t defend “conservatism” becasue I don’t know what “conservatism” is. I only know what the Constitution is and I defend it because Constitution is the only legal barrier between us and tyranny.
What’s interesting is doctors could lose their license over prescribing scheduled pain killers. I know many doctors who no longer prescribe them due to that threat. So now politicians want doctors who are cautious of prescribing pain medicine to prescribe marijuana!
lol. Whatever that means.
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