Posted on 09/25/2015 9:53:20 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
[...] Donald Trump
Position: Cloudy
In 1990, Donald Trump argued that in order to win the War On Drugs, you had to take away the profits from the drug czars. He favored legalizing drugs and using the tax revenue to fund drug education programs. Fast forward to 2015 at the Conservative Political Action Conference where Trump reversed course and said he was against the legalization of marijuana. “I think it’s bad and I feel strongly about that,” he said. “They’ve got a lot of problems going on right now in Colorado, some big problems.” However, Trump contradicts himself when asked about states rights and marijuana laws. Trump said, “If they vote for it, they vote for it.”
Ben Carson
Position: For Medical, Against Recreational
Ben Carson is a pediatric neurosurgeon that recognizes medical marijuana as being useful in some cases. However, the good doctor then steers clear of the facts and continues to call marijuana a gateway drug, even though prescription pain killers are the number one gateway to hard drugs. He is firmly against recreational marijuana.
[...] Ted Cruz
Position: Favors States Rights
Ted Cruz co-sponsored The Smarter Sentencing Act of 2015 to give judges more flexibility in sentencing, so he believes some people are unfairly incarcerated. He has now “evolved” his position on cannabis and supports states rights to choose whether to legalize or not. At the conservative conference earlier this year, he said he would not crack down on legal marijuana if he were president. [...]
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So unconstitutional federal laws dealing with intrastate marijuana are another example where the corrupt, post-17th Amendment Senate should have lead Congress to propose an amendment to the Constitution to the states which would have given Congress the specific power to regulate marijuana production.
Instead, the Senate wrongly passed bills dealing with marijuana that Congress had no constitutional authority to make.
The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators who help to pass bills that Congress has no constitutional authority to make along with it.
Legalization in general and CO in particular. I’d rather they made things a little easier and more open. As it is, I believe the costs are too high based on over taxation and regulation.
Here in CA you can’t safely venture into many of our beautiful mountain areas because the drug cartels use them for MJ growing area. Hell. if they’re gonna make it legal, let everybody grow it. That would starve the cartels that deal in MJ.
Amen!
I can't help wondering if you totally missed the point because you wanted to or you just didn't get it. But for the hard of understanding: The whole pot issues is completely trivial. It has no relevance to anything that matters. THAT is what I meant by a smokescreen.
Well, it should be. That isnt, and never was, a power of the Federal Gov.
I see your point. I was thrown by the term "smokescreen" which in standard usage implies deliberate intent. Thanks for the clarification.
Nope. It is higher quality and cheaper to go legal. I am on the east coast and I prefer CA or CO to hanging in parking lots and meeting some burnout. Also you can get it in an e vaporizer. Better on the lungs for your on the go gym rat stoner...
I haven’t bought MJ since the late 60’s.
OOOPs, I bought MJ for my mother who died of cancer in 1979. It did benefit her during her chemo.
Look up “BHO explosions” and you may change your mind
LOL! No kidding. Two entirely different substances.
Cruz wins!
:^)
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