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Posted on 08/11/2016 3:07:14 PM PDT by Ken H
For the first time Republicans narrowly support legalizing marijuana
YouGov's latest research shows that most Americans still support legalization of marijuana, and that support for legalization has increased slightly, from 52% in December 2015 to 55% today. Most of this change is a result of changing attitudes among Republicans. In fact, for the first time, Republicans narrowly tend to support legalization, 45% to 42%.
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New high for the “high” and all time low for the Republican Party. They are really messed up.
These jokers in congress are determined to make this country a bunch of potheads so they can continue their gravy train.
Congress should have no say one way or the other in intrastate regulation of marijuana, tobacco or alcohol.
If you think otherwise, then name the section of the Constitution which delegates that power.
Someone from CO recently told me “it took Democrats to legalize pot, but it’ll take Republicans to make it into a business”.
Congress should have no say one way or the other in intrastate regulation of marijuana, tobacco or alcohol.
If you think otherwise, then name the section of the Constitution which delegates that power.
Commerce Clause, specifically the dormant commerce clause.
You do realize that people also smoke pot when it’s illegal, do you not?
Those people who want to smoke pot are going to do so regardless of the law, and the only real question is do people who choose to do this deserve long prison sentences as a result of that choice?
I don’t think they do.
whatever.....weed gets boring after a while like everything else “legal”.
The War on Drugs is the very definition of Big Government Statism. There is nothing conservative about it.
You are 100% correct! More freedom is always better!
Vote Trump 2016
That’s a funny line but it makes it sound like the legislature legalized pot in CO.
It was a public referendum vote.
it’ll take Republicans to make it into a business
List of Marijuana stocks
http://marijuanastocks.com/content/list-marijuana-stocks/
I mean, how dare someone be caught with one of God's own plants?
The Prohibitionist Mind, and the logical somersaults it must do to rationalize such idiocy, is a marvel to behold.
Prohibition of Alcohol worked out real well too, as I recall.
Anyone who supports such Tyranny can hardly call themselves a small-government conservative, because of the expansive state apparatus necessary to enforce such contraband law. And, of course, the no-knock warrants, questionable searches, and general disregard for the 4th Amendment are part and parcel of such misguided dogma.
It's no wonder that the GOP has trouble attracting new membership, what with its selective attitude towards Freedom.
An individual's Pursuit of Happiness is not subject to anyone else's whims. As long as nobody's rights are being infringed upon, adults should be left alone, even if that means there are a few weed smokers in our midst.
The Drug War is Tyrannical; threatening people with long prison sentences is no way to "save them from themselves". That's a rationalization used by authoritarians.
Heck, George Washington grew hemp. Today, for growing the same crop (even though it wouldn't get you "high") he'd be looking at a long prison sentence. It is to laugh.
Nanny-state authoritarians on both sides of the spectrum would have free people choose whose version of Tyranny is the most palatable, as if the lesser of two evils should be the only choices.
Parenthetically, Donald Trump has expressed some libertarian leanings with respect to the phony Drug War in the past, although, of course, in an election year, such nuances completely go out the window in an effort to pander to "Law and Order" zealots.
Vote Trump!
Feel the bernout...
You can legal pot in your state but you can be denied employment and lose you job if you test for pot. I don’t think that will change.
It is actually the Wickard Commerce Clause, a fraudulent New Deal invention, that led to fedgov control over drugs, education, health care etc. The Dormant Commerce Clause is another fraud which has nothing to do with marijuana prohibition. Scalia and Thomas both said it was illegitimate =>
As predicted, Justice Scalia dissented separately on the grounds that the Dormant Commerce Clause doesn’t exist. He was joined in part by Justice Thomas, who wasn’t willing to apply the doctrine anyway under stare decisis. Justice Thomas wrote his own separate dissent (joined in part by Justice Scalia) focusing on originalist arguments against the Dormant Commerce Clause.
http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/418780/comptroller-v-wynne-dormant-commerce-clause-very-very-alive-jonathan-keim
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Do you think the Dormant Commerce Clause and the Wickard CC are justified by the original view of the Constitution?
“The War on Drugs is the very definition of Big Government Statism.”
I used to think statements like this were over the top, but I find myself in agreement with them anymore.
If there really was a “War on Drugs”, Mexican cartels would be wiped out by now. Instead, they thrive. Without the US markets, they’d have problems. The cartels have to have a list of politicians spanning the Americas bought off that would boggle the imagination.
It’s just another front for blowing the public’s tax money on a problem that will never go away w/o some form of sanity.
FDA ruled today that marijuana has no medical benefits.
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