What ever ya do, don't encourage people!☺
Posted on 02/24/2017 2:29:00 PM PST by ColdOne
During yesterday's news conference, press secretary Sean Spicer says allowing recreational marijuana to stand is encouraging the abuse of other drugs.
"When you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country, the last thing we should be doing is encouraging people... there is still a federal law that we need to abide by when it comes to recreational marijuana and drugs of that nature."
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Nonsense. Marijuana use is likely to decrease the need for opioids. Recreational marijuana is a state issue.
If for no other reason, I’d like him to lean on my state of Washington. Idiot Governor Jay Inslee, and his Beavis and Butthole twin AG Bob Ferguson need their hands slapped. They are the ones leading the anti Trump agenda of using the courts to stymie his every move. I’d love to see them tied up with the pot mess. Their time for comeuppance is long past due.
Marijuana is a precursor to opiod use.
You think smoking bud is the same as drinking Bud?
I understand I don’t smoke pot either but because of drug testing problem, I value my job more than some weed, but once I retire in about 5 month I am going to see if pot is a cure for knee pain and I could care less about the feds...lol
What ever ya do, don't encourage people!☺
—No doubt there is a nationwide opiod epidemic. The rates are lower in States with legal marijuana.—
“Montana, for instance, had a 1.7 percent reduction in the number of people who tested positive for opioids after its medical marijuana law went into effect.”
Lol.
I disagree. In that sense, so is alcohol, cold medicine, and cigarettes.
Non risk averse people with addictive tendencies will push on towards danger regardless.(pot or no pot)
I didn’t see this type of reply yet for please forgive me if already been said.
I did see where someone said this was another ‘gotcha question’ - which is exactly what I think it was. Where no matter how they answered it was going to be a hot button twisted issue.
No matter which side you are on the many issues of marijuana, the fact remains there is are FEDERAL LAWS involved right now. President Trump and his office is enforcing FEDERAL LAW and if they didn’t say (and do) enforcement, then he will be attacked for it. He is going to be attacked on this no matter what he does.
This will be what it takes to change the laws back to being a state issue on this - if people are really serious about doing that. It does cause those in Congress to make a stand on it. The lawmakers who want it legal will have to agree something to give some power back to the states. Or take it off the ‘dangerous drug list’. This forces Congress to get off their buts and work on the laws and their overreach.
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LOL! Unconstitutional federal laws, that is...
No constitutional authority.
One thing about Ron Paul. He is the only one in my lifetime to proclaim when he was in congress the first thing he asked about a bill is “Is it constitutional.”
For ONCE, I’d applaud the MSM if they would ask, “By what authority...”
Not that that’s stopped Fedzilla in the slightest.
Matters not if it’s a Schedule X or not. Either pass an Amendment or get back on the Constitutional limits.
I’m ashamed to read of ‘conservatives’ willing to violate the Law of the Land for their own Fascist needs.
Lastly, expecting govt to either rescind or enforce fully is another folly. It neither advances the power\authority of the elected (petard vs ‘doing something) nor restores the Rights of We the People (more laws = more to entrap the Citizenry).
A king would be just as fickle.
>Are states allowed to override federal laws?
A: Extra-Constitutional? No.
Alaska CAN declare such law void; they have A1S8\9th\10th Rights to do as much.
Fact, I relish the day the/a State to do so for any myriad of reasons in the last 100+ yrs. alone.
>but the Supreme Court held in Gonzales v. Raich (2005) that Congress had the power, under the interstate commerce
Yep, the handy fall-back of Fascism. Using a single clause to invalidate the WHOLE of Federalism. But, SCOTUS has ‘answered’. 9 robes over-ride 330M inalienable Rights, no?
He needs to keep it that way to deport alien illegals who are caught with the goods. More than personal use will get them deported.
Trump can lose a lot of voters this way.
I don’t smoke, but most boomers and everyone younger has experienced marijuana all their lives, maybe just in people around them. We know it is not the boogeyman the Feds make it out to be.
DJT needs to get on board this train, just like we got on his train.
Good start for all the druggies out there. Trump cares about everyone.
Agree this would be a bad move. Hopefully Trump will remind his administration underlings of his promise to let it be a state-by-state decision.
Please describe “barely”
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