Posted on 09/06/2023 3:02:53 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
North Carolina Congressman Chuck Edwards, NC-11, has introduced the Stop Pot Act, which would withhold federal funding from states and tribes that allow the use of recreational marijuana.
NC congressman introduces 'Stop Pot Act' to curb recreational marijuana legalization
The bill calls for withholding 10 percent of federal highway funds from areas that violate federal law under the Controlled Substances Act, which prohibits recreational marijuana and classifies it as a Schedule I drug.
Edwards released the following statement:
"The laws of any government should not infringe on the overall laws of our nation, and federal funds should not be awarded to jurisdictions that willfully ignore federal law. During a time when our communities are seeing unprecedented crime, drug addiction, and mental illness, the Stop Pot Act will help prevent even greater access to drugs and ease the strain placed on our local law enforcement and mental health professionals who are already stretched thin."
The bill does not apply to places that authorize medical marijuana use when prescribed by a licensed medical professional.
Edwards' bill comes as the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is set for a referendum election next week that has a question about whether to legalize the sale and use of recreational marijuana on tribal lands.
If the EBCI's referendum passes, the Qualla Boundary will be the only place in North Carolina to buy marijuana legally for recreational use.
LOL is this guy stoned?
Before then every American knew he was an honest man who had never disobeyed any law. In our modern times there are a plethora of laws or regulations we all know we have disobeyed daily .
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.”No Reverend, we haven't tried “constitutionally limited government” for an age.― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Since 1900 politicians in the executives and the legislatives with the approval of the judiciary have created laws, statutes, policies and regulations that have expanded government instead of limiting it.”
So if “constitutionally limited government” has been unable to limit socialists and leftists and communists for over one hundred years now, isn’t it time to declare it a failure and move on to other means to protect normal people from the left ?
I guess you missed the point entirely.
My last statement was that we have not existed under “constitutionally limited government” for generations.
We need to go back to “constitutionally limited government” as our Founders intended it to be. We should abolish the whole US Code and rewrite it to eliminate Federal overreach and manipulation.
The United States Code ("Code") contains the general and permanent laws of the United States, arranged into 54 broad titles according to subject matter. The organization of the Code was originally established by Congress in 1926 with the enactment of the act of June 30, 1926, chapter 712.Eliminate all but four or five of the Cabinet Departments as it was originally conceived under President Washington.
Instead of so called hate crimes, prosecute crimes instead of plea bargaining and end 30 year appeals processes for capitol punishment. The list goes on and on of what we need to do to get back to the rule of Law under God.
This sounds like the conservative version of “real Constitutional Government has never been tried”.
Fact is, it has been tried and failed, not only in the USA, but in every Western country.
It is time to move on to something effective to protect ourselves from the left.
“Wow, it’s not like there are more important issues going on now, like the existence of the country or nothin’.”
Legalization brings Dthe sloths off their couches to vote for Leftist causes. Our freedoms are doomed.
“Yes if smoking cigarettes is harmful, it makes sense that smoking and inhaling another substance would have similar harm. But we aren’t supposed to discuss that issue with marijuana.”
None of my peer-aged tokers are alive today.
“I am glad I left that behind me, for many reasons”.
Because the search for stronger highs meant later taking meth, bath salts, crack, cocaine and fentanyl?
Yeah...too bad the Founders weren’t smoking weed: nor the Minutemen...
“The black-market adjusted and has undercut the legal market to the point where the legal sale of pot is a money loser.”
Worse, the force of law has been diminished.
Good grief no!
I haven't touched an illicit drug or botanical of any kind in almost fifty years. My wife and I don't even drink alcohol. Over the years whenever I get pain medication at the dentist or doctor I almost don't even take that.
Sorry...Not you PERSONALLY...!
Just saying, that a “personal search” for grander highs would naturally lead to grander toxins of the mind.
“Even” Marijuana shouldn’t be taken by those under 26, nor even ingested by pets!
“Wasn’t the old argument that the stronger it is, the less of it people would abuse? And trafficking is worse than ever with legalization.
EVERYTHING THEY SAID WAS A FLAT-OUT LIE...”
Just mix in some FENTANYL and see what happens...
They keep trying to expand government power to enforce ideals better spread thorough the use of social stigma.
The entire precept of legalization of weed was that weed is not a gateway and people would only abuse it. And not move on. Which is so stupid.
I was stopped once while I had a dime bag in my breast pocket, by a Louisville, KY Detective in an unmarked car who only told me to move along because the regular patrolman was due to drive by there in the next few minutes.
I helped a guy harvest a rather magnificent marijuana plant in the woods, who took it back to his room and put it upside down to cure and dry in the space of a communicating doorway to the dormitory room next to his.
Either of those situations could have ended in sorrow, not to mention the actual risk of any mishap at any moment for a couple of years.
I held a Top Secret Security Clearance in the USAF after I had fully disclosed my drug history to a Lieutenant with the Human Reliability Program in Basic Training. The Lieutenant thanked me for being so forthright and told me the lie to tell anyone else who might have asked about it in the future.
I'm seventy years old now and long since retired, so my personal statute of limitations has expired. The only grander high I looked for after that was a wife and family, but I don't regret for a minute expanding my mind so to speak with an experience beyond the mundane.
My USN Top Secret Security Clearance (CW) was so thoroughly researched (by the FBI) that I feared for my shipmate’s Navy careers as they (only) discussed “lighting-up”.
This was only 10 years earlier than your experience.
‘Course NOW, I see headlines of smugglers getting HEROIN aboard ships!
(And FEMALE shipmates leaving the USN “Richer than Croesus”)...!
The USAF is less of a priority, as the FIBs have abandoned their mission—USAF aircraft mostly fly themselves—and Marijuana doesnt linger in the brain, right?
I didn’t want to leave you out 😔 .
See above...
And now, the White House is being “pimped-out” by cocaine.
You Navy guys always ran a tighter ship than the Air Force.
Seaman Flowers hand carried his NAF Tech Control 55-1 reports to our Comm Center and often stopped to visit with us in the Tech Control. We didn't have any gear or documents we had to scrub or cover. We couldn't visit the NAF facility because it was loaded with bays of crypto gear and other sensitive items in the open. I got to see it on an open house once and also visited the NSGA station a couple of miles away.
I found out years later that my background investigation may have been easier because my father and grandfather already had security clearances although not cleared for TS as far as I know.
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