Funny..
I don’t see anywhere in the constitution that grants the fed the right to criminalize pot...
I don't see anywhere in the Constitution that grants the Federal Government the right to do 99% of what they do.
Perhaps that's just me.
It would at least suggest a level of sanity if the Federal and State laws were complementary. The fact that some States allow behavior that is explicitly disallowed by the Feds shows that our system is completely screwed up and beyond repair.
I don’t see anywhere in the constitution that grants the fed the right to criminalize pot...
Marijuana (or marihuana as it was spelled then) was ‘outlawed’ in 1937. But it wasn’t really outlawed, Congress used its power to tax it—and then refused to sell the tax stamps required to legally possess it. They sort of did the same thing with ‘silencers’, sawed-off shotguns, machine guns, sub machine guns and other weapons by imposing a very high (for the time) tax of $200 per item.
But by the 1970s Congress somehow had the power to outlaw things outright. Someone with more knowledge than I might want to trace how and when Congress and the Federal government acquired this power.
Same, nothing in the constitution about horticulture....
Me either. I would be completely uninterested in buying pot even if I could buy it at my local 7-11. Still think the laws against it are completely unconstitutional. I am not a fan of Big Brother being my nanny. It also authorizes a 5% tax on marijuana and marijuana products that would gradually increase to 8% over five years.
This, BTW is the real key. They can't tax 'illegal' drugs, so This is how they insinuate themselves into the revenue stream. 'Follow the money' is always good advise.