I like bourbon chocolates.
Which sounds fine and dandy until you have to deal personally with a crackhead or a meth-head. I think pot should be decriminaized. But crack and meth and other hard drugs should carry some kind of legal sanction to apply against those who do cross a line.
You should try the Drambuie ones sometime. Oh man...
Justice Thomas, dissenting.
Respondents Diane Monson and Angel Raich use marijuana that has never been bought or sold, that has never crossed state lines, and that has had no demonstrable effect on the national market for marijuana. If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything–and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.
I Respondents’ local cultivation and consumption of marijuana is not “Commerce … among the several States.” U.S. Const., Art. I, §8, cl. 3. By holding that Congress may regulate activity that is neither interstate nor commerce under the Interstate Commerce Clause, the Court abandons any attempt to enforce the Constitution’s limits on federal power. The majority supports this conclusion by invoking, without explanation, the Necessary and Proper Clause. Regulating respondents’ conduct, however, is not “necessary and proper for carrying into Execution” Congress’ restrictions on the interstate drug trade. Art. I, §8, cl. 18.
Thus, neither the Commerce Clause nor the Necessary and Proper Clause grants Congress the power to regulate respondents’ conduct.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1454.ZD1.html
Agreed in principle, BUT...when you've (I don't mean you personally, but generally) drugged yourself into a perpetual state of uselessness, government initiates force against me to relieve me (all of us productives) of funds to keep you high 'til you die. Since choices no longer have consequences, why bother to behave rationally?
Why are libertarians still in love with the drug war?
The libertarian effort to legalize drugs has only isolated token success. Using it as an issue to win elections has been a failure.
The establishment politician’s addiction to my hard earned money is a more important fight we can win if we agree to fight the common enemy. Both conservatives, libertarians and populists should get pragmatic and unite in opposition to the addictive behavior of the parasites who are using destructive force against the producers in society.
Those of us who support legalization of pot should put it on the back burner, just as the conservatives should do.
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“End Prohibition Now!”
By Retired Narcotics Undercover Officer, Jack A. Cole,
I represent LEAP (law enforcement against prohibition) an international
nonprofit educational organization that was created to give voice to all the
current and former members of law enforcement who believe the war on drugs
is a failed policy and who wish to support alternative policies that will lower
the incidence of death, disease, crime and addiction — four categories of harm
that were supposed to be alleviated by the war on drugs but which in truth were
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We went public with out speakers’ bureau in
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