Posted on 11/18/2016 5:28:34 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
United States Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions is against legal marijuana and once said “good people don’t smoke marijuana.”
What does that mean for Washington State, where voters legalized marijuana?
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When he said that, he meant it. It was against the law.
That’s Sessions’ personal feeling on the issue. I tend to agree with him. But that whole thing is likely to stay a state issue, so the liberal media needs to stop scaremongering. But that’s probably asking to much of them...
Still is a federal crime.
States are pushing their luck on this one.
Marijuana makes you stupid.
True.
The peeps of Wash. are ignorant?
Not a good hill to die on. A lot of folks on our side, including yours truly, agree with Federal legalization. It’s a state matter. Let them deal with it. And in any case, self-lobotomized leftists are easier to deal with.
The more you smoke, the more liberal you become.
About 80% of the folks living in the Pugetopolis area are ignorant leftists.
From Bill Gates on down....
The law is against the Constitution.
Ah! Weed!
Numerous studies show that long term use of marijuana causes...uh......uh....uh....what were we talking about?
Ah! Weed!
I’ve met Gates twice. He’s an arrogant little prick.
The truth is, there is nothing in the Federal Constitution that grants Congress the right to make any law concerning what vegetables you may grow in your backyard, carry around in your back pocket, eat, or smoke.
In 1920 we believed that the Federal Government lacked the competence to control any aspect of the manufacture, sale, transportation or consumption of fruit and vegetable products without the full force and significant exertion of a Constitutional Amendment to do so.
Our respect for the Constitution in general, and the Tenth Amendment in particular had fallen so low after just a few years of an out-of-control President, that by 1936 -- when Marijuana was outlawed -- we thought it was a legitimate exercise of authority to do that by the simple passage of a law.
By 1990 our understanding of our own founding document was so poor that a Federal Bureaucrat named David Kessler -- appointed by Bush the Elder -- believed it was within his purview to outlaw all usage of a plant (called tobacco) on nothing more than the stroke of his own pen.
Luckily for the Republic, he did not force the issue. I say luckily, because he would have been backed in his decision by the Federal Judiciary if he'd done so, and more of our liberty would have gone down the drain.
It's time to "progress" back to 1920, admit that Congress doesn't have the authority to ban Marijuana or any other substance, and recognize that legal entities with the Constitutional authority -- the states, or the People, respectively -- should decide the issue.
It means there's a huge number of liberals living here and I'm not one of them.
Good people are not libertarian drug advocates either.
Deschedule it and let the States decide. Crime wise, its a waste of time, manpower, jail space, and tax payers money. More people were arrested on marijuana related charges than all violent crimes, combined.
It really doesn’t matter what he THINKS. All he has to do is enforce existing law. What is so hard to understand?
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