War on marijuana unconstitutional, doctors testify in federal court Monday

SFGate.com ^ | October 21, 2014 | David Downs

[tacticalogic]

Right conclusion, wrong reasons.

Overturn Wickard v Filburn.

[tacticalogic]

The article states that doctors are going to testify that cannabis does not belong in the Schedule I controlled substance category.

Nixon's hand-picked commission told them the same thing forty years ago.

[ConservingFreedom]

The federal government has absolutely no authority under Article 2, Section 8 of the Constitution to regulate what people put into their own bodies.

The War on Drugs is big-government liberalism.

[vpintheak]

I’m getting close to saying forget it all! The world is getting worse and worse. Any and every law that has a moral standing is beginning to fall. What’s the point any more? Really? A judge can come in a rule anything and everything “unconstitutional” and use any means of legal jargon to justify it over the will of the people. It’s terrible.
I’m going to keep praying, working, and voting because I don’t have it in my to do otherwise. But I am really getting discouraged.

[sloop]

had to know this would draw all the loser pothedz and paultardz out

the ‘pot makes you mellow’ argument was shot down with the henderson thug though - its one of the bs lines they will have to give up

[AppyPappy]

Except that they regulate almost everything you put into your body so your point is moot.

[ConservingFreedom]

Any and every law that has a moral standing is beginning to fall. What’s the point any more? Really? A judge can come in a rule anything and everything “unconstitutional”

Some laws really are unconstitutional - the federal nati-drug laws being just one example.

[ConservingFreedom]

nati -> anti

[ConservingFreedom]

they regulate almost everything you put into your body

Is that a conservative policy?

[ConservingFreedom]

the ‘pot makes you mellow’ argument

Irrelevant to whether it meets the Schedule I criterion of having "no accepted medical use."

was shot down with the henderson thug though

Nobody ever claimed that pot always makes every user mellow.

[AppyPappy]

It’s a fact of life.

“The federal government has absolutely no authority under Article 2, Section 8 of the Constitution to regulate what people put into their own bodies.”

So how’s that working out for you?

[sloop]

wrong

greg gutfeld does it all the time

[sloop]

you sure seem to have a vested interest in this

you a pothead?

[tomkat]

The 10th Amendment .. what a quaint notion.

Obviously penned for a republic whose people still valued liberty.

For an electorate that twice abetted the coup of a marxist traitor møngrel, its provision may just as well state that 'everyone deserves a unicorn' . . .

[tacticalogic]

Indeed. I don’t know if it’s true but I read that those that wrote the first laws against marijuana went with the expensive tax stamp (which one couldn’t buy) as opposed to simply making it illegal for constitutional reasons and they were even concerned that even the tax would be found unconstitutional.

Actually I don't think it was all that expensive. It was sold to Congress as a simple tax on production. Hemp was still a commodity crop back then. Making the stamps expensive would have cause opposition from members that represented agricultural regions. They didn't tell Congress the farmers wouldn't actually be able to buy the tax stamps and that it was effectively a ban on growing hemp. They needed to make it sound as innocuous as possible to get it passed, and setting a high price on the tax stamps wouldn't have helped that. It didn't really matter what they set the price at since they didn't have any intention of ever selling any.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

President Richard Nixon placed cannabis in Schedule 1 in 1970, overruling the recommendations of his own National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, which found “little proven danger of physical or psychological harm from the experimental or intermittent use of the natural preparations of cannabis.”

Yeah. Richard (Dick) "I am not a crook" Nixon. `Nuff said.

Once-Secret "Nixon Tapes" Show Why the U.S. Outlawed Pot

He (Nixon) made a bizarre distinction between marijuana and alcohol, saying people use marijuana "to get high" while "a person drinks to have fun."

[ConservingFreedom]

they regulate almost everything you put into your body

Is that a conservative policy?

It’s a fact of life.

Nonresponsive.

The federal government has absolutely no authority under Article 2, Section 8 of the Constitution to regulate what people put into their own bodies.

So how’s that working out for you?

Violations of the Constitution work out badly for Americans.

[truth_seeker]

“given current brain scans of long term users and the fact that we know in large enough recreational uses it does in fact cause hallucinations, these doctors have no credibility.”

Long term users of legal alcohol, legal prescription pain meds, also show several debilitating concerns.

But the doctor or the individual make the choice the benefits outweigh the risks.

I’m almost 67; first smoked some weed about 50 years ago. Stopped in my 20s, but continued drinking into my 40s before quitting that, too.

The point is I have seen recreational drinkers and drug users over a long time, and I don’t see societal risks of marijuana to be greater than alcohol.

Abusers will abuse, if legal or if illegal.

Why spend the LE resources on a “war” on marijuana?

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

given current brain scans of long term users and the fact that we know in large enough recreational uses it does in fact cause hallucinations, these doctors have no credibility.

Wouldn't that be called, 'abuse', not 'use.'

Saying that the abuse of a substance warrants its illegality is stupid. If I drink enough water I can die. Should we ban water because people can die by abusing it?

[ConservingFreedom]

you sure seem to have a vested interest in this

As a real conservative I have an interest in freedom.

you a pothead?

No - you a DEA shill?