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I don't care about pot one way or the other. In WNC don't know anyone who has been busted for having some pot in the past decade that got a felony rap unless they had a key or more except when they made a plea deal to accept the penalty for dealing pot rather than something else with a stiffer sentence.

If that's different in other States, well, States Rights right back at ya'. If some State wants to stand anyone caught with pot up against a wall and shoot them, that's also a State's Rights instance. Works both ways.

Some sane policy with regards to the line between someone with a stash for their own use and someone dealing with a misdemeanor for the former and felony for the latter consistent across the country is better than a patchwork quilt in this case. That's Federal decriminalization of use, not an infringement of State's Rights since a State could bring State charges rather than Federal Charges. So, yeah, if you let the knife cut both ways, it's a State's Rights issue. If you dictate decriminalization, you're no different than the people on the other side of the fence.

While I don't care about either casual or total drooling idiot pot smokers, I do care about what the proponents of total legalization will claim legalization of pot "proves" about any and all addictive drugs now in existence or dreamed up in a lab in the future.

I also get a kick out of the "free society" argument that always revolves around dope, prostitution, and all sorts of perverse sex or porno.

And don't bother with the "slippery slope" being all BS, either. If you can look at the little court cases chipping away at our rights over the past sixty years and not see how that gradient is created you're blind.

“If you can look at the little court cases chipping away at our rights over the past sixty years and not see how that gradient is created you’re blind.”

Many of the cases that chipped away at our rights were the result of the drug war - asset seizure, no-knock raids, the Raich case which all but destroyed the Tenth Amendment.

The drug war has been a failed disaster.

Well, as an old person now I barely get around to having a couple glasses of wine - so, maybe I am not the best person to opine about getting stoned, as it were. I also find myself slowing down on my trips to the gun range.

My point is that I don't think that the government should tell someone what firearms to own or whether they can smoke some pot if they chose.

Whether it's the state or the feds, government always finds a way to run your life. Individual choices and individual responsibility,says I. I am certain that the 'other side' doesn't really come close to believing in individual freedom, not really.

Furthermore, none of this has anything to do with 'human trafficking' or the highly dangerous opioid crisis.