[joethedrummer]

I wonder how Barry would feel about someone turning his daughters onto some “harmless” pot smoking??

Just don’t be giving them a Twinkie, or there’d be hell to pay! - ehh Moochelle???

[ifinnegan]

Pot turns people in to liberals.

It’s like the strategy of bringing in lots of immigrants who will vote Dem.

[fr_freak]

God's Word also calls Christians to submit to the governing authorities (Romans 13:1-7). Whatever laws are changed or modified at the state level, "It is important to recognize that these state marijuana laws do not change the fact that using marijuana continues to be an offense under federal law. Nor do these state laws change the criteria or process for [Food and Drug Administration] approval of safe and effective medications."[6]

If, then, Christians are to follow the dictates of the law insofar as they are consistent with God's Word, they should avoid practices that violate statutes established by the authorities set over us by God. This includes obedience to drug laws.

This line of thinking always forgets that the American system of government sets the people at the top of the food chain. The government does not rule over us - the government is there to represent us. When our consent has been removed from the government, and when that government is at odds with what the people want, the government no longer has rightful authority. Additionally, the federal government was never given the power to regulate drug use under the Constitution, so its attempt to do so is a usurpation of power. If your state has legalized marijuana, there is no logical basis for believing that you are violating the Biblical principle of submitting to legitimate authority.

[LouAvul]

The imposter-in-chief hasn't begun to give America the finger. Wait till he hits the final months in office. We haven't seen anything yet.

And America's home grown commie pigs won't even notice. That's how obtuse they really are.

[ctdonath2]

Quite a change from the Supreme Court ruling in _Raich_ where the feds argued for and got a nearly totalitarian authority to prosecute drug offenses.

[RIghtwardHo]

The Feds absolutely need to stay out of marijuana enforcement where the States have legalized it.

[ConservingFreedom]

The federal law on marijuana was duly enacted by the Congress and signed by the president. Colorado and Washington State passed referendums that violate this federal law on the sale and use of marijuana. How can they be permitted to flout federal law?

Ted Cruz has agreed that under the Constitution it's a matter for the states. And I agree with him.

[gdani]

Bill Bennett is the former Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. His new book, co-authored with former Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert A. White, makes a strong case for proper law enforcement on drugs.

Ah, yes. The same Bill Bennett who chain smokes, drinks and gambles but lectures others on vices.

[ConservingFreedom]

ping

[ConservingFreedom]

As FRC has documented, today’s pot is far more potent and thus far more likely to cause grave harm to young people than the marijuana of 30 and 40 years ago.

The link "documents" none of these claims. And increased potency means less harmful smoke is required to get the same high - so it seems likeliest that more potent pot means LESS harm.

[Parmy]

“choom gang”

[ConservingFreedom]

As the federal Department of Justice has documented, as drug use increases, so does crime.

Nothing at that link supports the claim that as drug use increases, so does crime. Apparently gross innumeracy is a family value.

[Vaduz]

Obama, Drug Law Enforcement Lapses
Cartels send thank you card loaded with what who knows.

[ConservingFreedom]

Legalizing harmful drugs that cause both physical and psychological damage and that impair citizens’ capacity for reflection and choice is surely no way to keep a republic.

So the FRC supports a return to alcohol Prohibition. What do they know that the supermajority of Americans which, after having seen its effects firsthand, repealed it didn't know?

[ConservingFreedom]

Although even some Republicans argue that drug legalization is properly a Tenth Amendment issue and should be left to the states, the reality is we have a federal drug law on the books. [...] The Framers of the Constitution made it explicit that “this Constitution, and the laws of the United States that shall be made in pursuance thereof…shall be the Supreme law of the land.” Art. VI, Sec. 2 of the Constitution makes this clear.

So Art. VI, Sec. 2 effectively overrides all Constitutional limits on federal power and Congress can pass any law they please. The liberals will love this conclusion - but what is this bilge doing on a pro-Constitution web site?

[ConservingFreedom]

It used to be the case in many states and localities that saloons were required to close on Election Day.

And therefore pot should be banned every day? Blackwell should be embarrassed to put his name to such a dog's breakfast of an illogical article.

[bassmaner]

Not one mention of the 10th Amendment in this bilge.

[DJ Taylor]

Obama only continued what Bill Clinton Started.

When Clinton took office in 1993, the U.S. War on Drugs was being fought in Mexico, Central America, and South America by DEA NBRF (Northern Border Response Force) in Mexico, DEA CADENCE (Central America Drug Enforcement Center) in Central America, and DEA Operation Snowcap in South America, but by the election of 1996, Bill Clinton and his Attorney General, Janet Reno, had shut them all down.

The Liberal Left Media, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN were pushing every Liberal issue to include drugs in an attempt to influence the election in favor of Clinton. Here’s one of ABC’s 1992 “hit pieces” on the “War on Drugs”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1DUmHaGkY4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn9GqOkAqco