Posted on 10/11/2019 7:41:28 AM PDT by rktman
In 2004, Vermont implemented a medical marijuana registry, promising patient confidentiality on its state website. Then, in 2018, Vermont legalized recreational marijuana use and imposed a universal background check on gun-purchasers.
Here's the rub: the federal government was not consulted, and the ATF maintains that anyone using marijuana will be denied clearance to purchase any gun. This was already the case prior to Vermont's recreational cannabis legalization — those who were on the state's marijuana registry were not allowed to buy guns from federally licensed dealers, as the state of Vermont provided the list of registrants surreptitiously to the federal government. Yet those on the cannabis registry could still purchase guns from neighbors — that is, until the vaulted "universal background check" closed that "loophole" for sick people to defend themselves. All without public discussion, or even awareness.
Liberals have been chiseling away at our rights for many decades. They have eroded the gun rights of sickly Vermonters, and no one even knows it. They have eliminated the Confederate flag that Lynyrd Skynyrd used as a symbol of rebellion. That flag is permitted only one meaning now: slaveholder. Soon, the American flag may be permitted only one meaning — the one they impose, the one that calls for its universal removal. Soon, MAGA hats will be joined by other symbols deemed offensive to the P.C. McCarthyites.
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We’ll see who supports the Second Amendment vs who supports the BATF and the Brady Bunch.
My prediction is that President Trump will get federal laws against marijuana removed during his second term.
It just doesn’t work if states legalize this stuff and the feds don’t. People who oppose tyranny should recognize that the federal laws are not helping anyone.
For your interest.
> My prediction is that President Trump will get federal laws against marijuana removed during his second term.
Yep, the momentum is all that way. Also, Too much money involved now for the retail businesses not to lobby to protect themselves.
Furthermore, possession of a “medical Marijuana card” in those states that issue them, is de facto evidence of being a habitual controlled substance user.
Until they change the banking laws, this new “industry” is ripe for corruption and other criminal activities. It’s all about money laundering until that happens.
Long term marijuana users have a much higher incidence of serious mental health issues. I responded to medical aid calls for 25 years, the vast mast majority of truly whacked out nut cases were long term marijuana users. President Trump has no desire to step in this big pile of dog doodoo, that is wishful thinking on your part.
What is the ATF position on users of CBD oil, that contains little or no THC?
Pretty soon aspirin use will be a reason to deny gun ownership to someone, if things continue on this trajectory.
And in 50 or so years when the powers that be publish long term effects papers, will some folks see that maybe it wasn’t such an awesome plan? I’ll probably be gone by then.
Fine with me. This is a state matter anyway.
Better tell that to President Trump => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOpgIDMV07o
Take note of the huge cheers from the crowd of Deplorables when he says legalization should be left up to the states.
It’s not that there aren’t side effects, it’s that the side effects for CBD are much less worse than for the opioids they displace.
That an editor didn't catch that error really makes me cringe.
Smoking dope makes you stupid and then you vote demoKKKrat. And Vermont is what you get.
And in 50 or so years when the powers that be publish long term effects papers, will some folks see that maybe it wasn’t such an awesome plan?
Alcohol and tobacco have bad effects - is keeping them legal and regulated a bad plan?
Sometimes I think they've fired all the editors. With spellcheck, who needs editors?
Something else: This morning on the radio I heard a newsreader report on Giuliani's associates who had been indicted -- or, as she put it: "in-dick-tid".
Smoking dope makes you stupid and then you vote demoKKKrat. And Vermont is what you get.
Vermont was not Democrat before 2018?
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