Scott Adams tells you how Jeff sessions may have started the process toward making weed legal

Twitter ^ | 4 Jan 2018 | Scott Adams

[Boogieman]

SCOTUS has already sided with the feds on these issues. Perhaps they will look at it again, but I doubt it.

[Agamemnon]

Many would disagree. Many states disagree....

And many agree with me, as do many States.

Libertarians like yourself mistakenly believe that your assumed licence to do just about anything you want to do in no way impacts the safety and well being of others.

My profession for the past 36 years has been focused in pharmaceutical development.

I have no problem with classifying THC as a Schedule 2 drug as a refined and qualified active drug substance extracted and purified from well defined crops of cannabis or as synthesized and purified in a lab, which is presented in a well defined dosage form having been formally studied with clinically demonstrated end points and safety data at a defined dosage, and labeled dosage administration, safety precautions, and stated potency metrics -- approved for marketing by FDA like any other Schedule 2 drug is.

But that's not what you and other pot apologists are talking about. You are looking to make pot effectively an OTC product, with multiple varieties and uncertain quality metrics and variants with no well defined dosages corresponding with well-studied therapeutic outcomes.

With an under-educated public whose primary resource of information about this kind of thing is Hollywood and CNN smoking bongs on New Year's Eve, it is little wonder that some voters and their feckless politicians have bought into the lies about the wonders of raw pot of uncertain quality and purity, with incidental and at best epidemiological benefits, and rarely if ever overseen or as administered under the care of trained physicians.

Pot heads just wanna get high without regard for anyone else but themselves. Big money drug users buy politicians to give them the license at the State level to flout what is rightly illegal at the Federal level.

It's about time for Jeff Sessions to enforce the laws and lock up a few politicians in the dragnet while he's at it.

FReegards!

[raiderboy]

I am a prohibitionist against the violation of the law!! How about you? You for permission to break the law?

[Boogieman]

“And if your real goal is to disqualify the number persons eligible for DACA consideration due to their breaking of Federal law by smoking pot, the number of eligible DACAs likely drops from ~ 800,000 to ~100,000.

Trump says OK to DACA getting guaranteed funding for the wall and end to chain migration in exchange for a mere ~100,000 eligible DACAs who were smart enough to keep their noses clean (that is, unless the other DACAs are caught doing cocaine.)”

Seems like a pipe dream, since that is a compromise that would make nobody happy, so why would it pass? Trump’s base would still consider it amnesty, all the non-illegal alien medicinal and recreational pot users would be pissed, and the left would still oppose Trump on immigration because 100k voters is not enough for them to be satisfied with.

[Agamemnon]

Nonsense. For example, vote Republican, and I voted for legalization here in deep blue Massachusetts.

Your FR flag is Indiana, so one naturally concludes you are an Indiana citizen poster, yet you say you're voting in Massachusetts? How is that done legally?

FReegards!

[Boogieman]

“The left thinks there is no 10th Amendment— Fine!!”

Our enemies hate the Constitution so we should too?

[Boogieman]

“so many things like this are interpreted to be covered...”

Funny how they weren’t interpreted to cover that when people wanted the federal government to outlaw alcohol. Then we needed to pass an amendment.

The language of the Constitution didn’t change in the meantime, the intent of the Founders certainly couldn’t have changed... but the interpretation magically changed!

[raiderboy]

The irony of the left in hating the 10th amendment on sate laws against the murder of babies or telling people who they can serve in their own business is overwhelming when these communists now want to claim “10th Amendment” so they can smoke pot!! What a joke. Suck it up. It was already decided in the Supreme Court and that argument is over!!

[TheStickman]

“I am a prohibitionist against the violation of the law!! How about you? You for permission to break the law?”

I am 100% for the rule of law being followed according to the Constitution, Prohibitionist. I am 100% against unconstitutional laws. The Controlled Substances Act, IMO is unconstitutional in that it usurps the right of States & is a unconstitutional use of gov’t force against it’s people.

Lawful elections were held & free people in several states (with more to come) decided on their own, in accordance with the various state constitutions & the US Constitution to legalize & regulate cannabis in their states. Those laws must be followed as well.

[itsahoot]

Crush narcotic sales!!

Better duck the FR Libertarians will not like what you posted.

[Agamemnon]

Seems like a pipe dream, since that is a compromise that would make nobody happy, so why would it pass? Trump’s base would still consider it amnesty, all the non-illegal alien medicinal and recreational pot users would be pissed, and the left would still oppose Trump on immigration because 100k voters is not enough for them to be satisfied with.

It's the Art of Deal. I'm betting that Trump's base would exchange a pittance of DACA recipients with a meaningful border wall and cessation of chain migration. The DACA population is limited an won't be increasing if the Wall is in place, e-Verify is in place, the immigration lottery is eliminated and chain migration ceases.

As far as the pot heads go, make THC a Schedule 2 drug regulated as any other Schedule 2 is, as I described upthread. We don't allow the use of raw opium or heroin, due to obvious abuse and safety considerations, but we make medicines from the extracts (e.g. morphine, and other alkaloids). You can do the same with cannabis. Make "pot-4-pain" a well regulated medicine, with a well defined clinical endpoint -- not an OTC equivalent of an opium den.

FReegards!

[Boogieman]

“The irony of the left...”

This isn’t a site for leftists though. The people here pointing out the 10th amendment to you are on the right, and they haven’t taken those positions rejecting the 10th amendment when it comes to abortion, etc, so that is a false argument.

“Suck it up. It was already decided in the Supreme Court and that argument is over!!”

Ah. So, since Roe v. Wade was decided in the Supreme Court, should we “suck it up” on that issue as well? The argument about abortion is over?

[itsahoot]

It always amazes me when Conservatives want a small Federal government except for the part of the Federal government that enforces the laws they agree with.

It plays amazes me when Libertarians claim to be Conservative.

[TheStickman]

I don’t believe Raiderboy cares he’s pro nanny-state. :)

[itsahoot]

The constitution doesn’t regulate pot

No but it gives Congress the authority to pass legislation to control it and you know it.

The Constitution doesn't give authority to regulate many things but the Founders recognized the short comings by establishing a legislature to address those through legislation or amendments if required..

[Sixgun Symphony]

Your opinion is steeped in ignorance of the law and the constitution.

[MileHi]

The state cannot stop them because they preempt the state law real bad!! Just like the Feds are picking up illegal aliens by the thousands in these so called sanctuary cities.

Immigration policy is an enumerated federal power, pot prohibition, like alcohol prohibition, is not. The feds passed the Eighteenth Amendment because they understood this. Since FDR the feds have become unconcerned with what powers they lawfully have, they take for themselves the powers the wish.

[MileHi]

Nice dodge n00b

[Augie]

This is FreeRepublic. Not NannyStateRepublic. Not JackBootRepublic. FreeRepublic.

[glorgau]

It means I’m too lazy to update my FR flag, but do take the time to update my voter registration. Which is more important?