Conservatively: Having laws you don’t intend to enforce is deleterious to law abiding. So, either enforce or repeal.
Politically: Loser issue for Republicans. The pot issue can only bring pot heads off the couch to vote D (if enforced) or keep straight edge conservatives from voting R (if repealed). I don’t get the winning play here, politically. I’d just leave it alone for the first term. Do one of the two Conservative approaches in a second term, when Trump can handle any outcome.
You could easily be right. I’d like to see this solved, but I’m okay with next term instead of this term if the solution is legalizing marijuana.
“Conservatively: Having laws you don’t intend to enforce is deleterious to law abiding. So, either enforce or repeal.”
There are a gazillion federal laws on the books and many, if not most, are selectively enforced or not enforced at all. Why single out intrastate mj for special treatment, especially since it tramples on the rightful Tenth Amendment powers of the states?
Why not go after seniors who buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada in violation of the Law of the Land? At least that law is constitutional, since it’s based on the power to reguate foreign commerce.
C’mon, are we a Nation of Laws or not?