Posted on 03/05/2015 6:14:02 AM PST by Ken H
The lawsuit brought against the state claims sheriffs are faced with a "crisis of conscience"
A group of sheriffs will file a lawsuit Thursday against Colorado for its legal marijuana law.
The lawsuit says legalizing pot on a state level while it’s still illegal on a federal one creates a “crisis of conscience,” USA Today reports.
Colorado is “asking every peace officer to violate their oath,” Larimer County, Colo., Sheriff Justin Smith, the lead plaintiff in the suit, said. “What we’re being forced to do … makes me ineligible for office. Which constitution are we supposed to uphold?”
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I asked the other day what part of the Constitution explicitly authorizes banning anything like this by the feds. I was told that basically that the feds can do anything as long as they justify it as threatening the well being of the nation.
When I suggested the feds to stick to the Constitution and use the amendment process if someone wanted to make changes to ban something,(the horror) I was told to stfu, and that basically I didn’t care about defending this nation.
This, right here on Free Republic, I guess the nation really is lost when you can’t get self described conservatives to adhere to the actual wording of Constitution, if it contravenes their pet cause, whatever that may be.
Who the heck cares what DC thinks ? DC will never rise again from the debt quicksand. We can never again trust DC with the governance of states. It has failed miserably and is corrupted beyond all repair. States are now all that matter. Follow state law and you should rest at ease. These sheriffs should be happy that local gang bangers lost a source of revenue. Heck I know gang bangers in Cali that were actually forced to find jobs and give up ganja dealing.
Wrong. You nor anyone has standing to tell another what they can put in their own body. The law has standing to hold them accountable for their actions while under the influence but choosing one plant over another is not the role of a civil government.
NECESSARY DISCLAIMER: the strongest drug I use is black coffee. No alcohol, no nicotine, no recreational drugs. I do take an 81 mg aspirin every morning.
A trumped-up "crisis of conscience" is inconsequential.
t They probably have more reasons but they're not laying them on the table for fear of PC fallout...
Maybe not - but real conservatives do.
I doubt they have any problem with law breakers from south of the border. They just let them go
And alcohol? fatty foods? nicotine? sugar?
And of course, mr dope pusher himself has to show up and try to obfuscate the issue.
By using the sheriffs' own words I'm "obfuscating the issue"? Pull the other one, Humpty Dumpty.
Yes we do, because to allow the unfettered use of drugs will result in a collapse of government. The first order of any governing system is to insure it's own survival, and any system which allows it's own citizens to kill themselves will not survive very long.
The law has standing to hold them accountable for their actions while under the influence but choosing one plant over another is not the role of a civil government.
So you are blatantly asserting that people have right to do heroine or crack. (both come from plants.)
Speak up. Tell us you support a right to Heroin and Crack so that we can recognize you as a kook, and thereafter ignore what you have to say on the subject.
It’s because of the pervasive Moral Bankruptcy we have denigrated to in America. Asking people to follow the Constitution as written forces the morally bankrupt to look in the mirror and come to the realization that they do not have the right to impose their desires on others and that they are the enemy of Freedom.
We just cannot force people to reckon with their abject Moral Bankruptcy, it will destroy their all important Self Esteem.
You are not a conservative, real or otherwise. You are a libertarian kook that is promoting that ignorant Libertarian ideology which only leads to rack and ruin.
Conservatives follow Burke, Locke, and Smith. You follow de Sade.
The governor's beef was that being the first state to legalize meant uncharted waters; he also said “we're making real progress” on fine-tuning pot policy, and “The studies we've seen of the people in Colorado [show] the people who were smoking before it was legal are still doing it, and people that weren't smoking it still aren't.”
Conservatives follow Burke, Locke, and Smith.
Also the Constitution and its federalist structure.
Are not dangerous to the population to the degree that Heroin, Crack, Meth and Weed are.
Alcohol comes closest, but we had a vote on that and the nation decided to accept the level of death and destruction that it causes.
If you are posting on drugs, you are obfuscating. You and the truth are strangers to each other.
And now we've had and are having votes on pot.
They most certainly had the right for the first 150 years.
Which was never intended to justify Libertarian self indulgence. You aren't following the constitution, you are doing just like the liberals. You are reading into it things which you WANT in there, but which are not actually in there.
Which was never intended to justify Libertarian self indulgence.
The plain language of the Constitution gives the federal government no authority over intrastate growing, selling, buying, or using of pot; ignoring the words and instead prattling about alleged "intent" is how liberals pervert the Constitution.
You equate the mostly Democrat kooks in Colorado (and the recent California kook immigrants) to the 3/4s of the states which ratified the 21rst amendment?
What we are seeing here is closer to a secession vote than it is to a constitutional amendment. A State law may not override a Federal law. That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
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