“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.
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!
