Posted on 02/28/2017 10:37:25 AM PST by deplorableindc
ttorney General Jeff Sessions has twice in two days publicly bashed marijuana legalization, abandoning his confirmation-process reticence to discuss the topic and reclaiming his colorful opposition.
On Tuesday, Sessions told a Washington ballroom packed with state attorneys general – many of them in charge of defending laws that conflict with federal prohibition – that pot legalization should be resisted, though he did not describe any specific plans to challenge state-regulated markets.
Attorneys general of three states with laws allowing for recreational sales told U.S. News after the remarks that Sessions needs to clarify his intentions.
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Yep. And now we are going to see a great increase in automobile accidents.
So true. I wonder how many in Congress have smoked it & if not have been in environments when it was used. I believe this would be a wrong move to attack this issue as it is today. Get Congress to vote on it.
I’m not familiar with that aspect of the tax law. Do you have to have a tax stamp for geraniums?
Perhaps “consuming” the plant opens up other legal ramifications, but seriously... That isn’t part of my position.
It is a plant, native to this hemisphere, and did occur naturally across a wide area before the FedGov decided to eradicate it by burning money. Who thought this was a good idea?
As far as the effect it is purported to have on those who consume it, that might actually be a legislative issue; but we’d never attempt to stop arson by making wood illegal.
Sessions needs to stop wasting time on getting ‘them hippies!’ and get to work on 30 million illegals in the U.S., massive illegal voting by them, and equally massive crime by them.
If he’s trapped in 1968 and thinking of trying to resurrect the 1950’s, he was a mistake.
I am glad you were spared.
Both of my siblings were ruined by marijuana, which indeed became the gateway to more obviously (but less insidiously) damaging drugs.
At a busy retail store in the 1990s, where most of the employees used drugs (but I did not), I could tell at a glance when a co-worker showed up on marijuana versus when not: When he/she came in high on marijuana, it meant that I, the sober, rational and motivated one, would be doing the work of two people that day. It never failed.
I have a background in chemistry, and am a nutritionist. No one will ever convince me that ingesting marijuana is natural or harmless.
“Pot has ruined more lives than just about any other drug.”
That’s a ridiculous assertion, not supported by reality.
Pot on the other hand is smoked to get high, completely baked. Most pot smokers don't take a little to feel good, no they go full Cheech y Chong every time and almost every day. It is abused at every use or almost every use.
OK, I did a little (very little!) research. The Tax was passed in 1937, back when Congress still didn’t think it had the power to outlaw things nationally. But it had always had the power to tax stuff, so that’s what it did. In 1969 the Supreme Court said the act was unconstitutional since a buyer of the stamps would be incriminating himself. So the next year Congress simply outlawed marijuana, since by that time Constitutional thinking had “evolved” to say Congress and the Federal Government could do pretty much anything they wanted.
That's the pot talking.
“Alcohol doesn’t have the long term dulling effect on the personality and brain function that pot does”
You know very little about alcoholism. Drunks are universally dull and stupid.
That seems credible.
I think Marijuana should be regulated like other drugs.
And people should be able to grow their own and even buy and sell plants and seeds, but manufacturing it into drug form or selling the drug form should be regulated.
As a Christian, I regard getting “high” to be a sin. But I believe in personal responsibility up until the point where individual liberties encroach on the liberties of others. (So, for example, driving under the influence is a behavior that government rightly restricts.)
While my knowledge of the subject is very limited, I believe that juicing the leaves of a Marijuana plant supplies THCA (the precursor of THC) which has many health benefits and does not make people “high”.
We need to change federal laws to regulate the THC that comes from Marijuana while allowing states to implement the more stricter regulations that citizens of those states desire. Perhaps local standards would also be beneficial — like dry counties.
Sessions, this is not what people elected Trump to do. Get your priorities straight. Worry about the potheads AFTER you prosecute the corrupt politicians, root out the voter fraud, and destroy the domestic espionage network in the federal bureaucracy.
“You don’t chose which laws you will enforce and which ones you wont, you enforce the law as written.”
If you have sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution, then yes, you should choose not to enforce unconstitutional laws.
Alcohol used to be MUCH more prevalent than it is today. There are records of rail road workers being paid in alcohol. Many "medicines" were nothing more than flavored alcohol.
We have been "drugging" ourselves for a loooong time.
I am not in favor of legalizing marijuana, but I do think it should be a state by state issue.
So what? This is supposed to be a free country. If someone chooses to throw away some opportunities because they would rather get a buzz on, it’s not your business or mine.
“I have a background in chemistry, and am a nutritionist. No one will ever convince me that ingesting marijuana is natural or harmless.”
How about alcohol, opioids, benzodiazapines and SSRIs?
What does the chemistry wizard and nutritionist in you have to say about those? Should we outlaw them?
All of them are demonstrably harmful to individuals and society. And all are highly addictive.
Who, me? Or you?
I am talking about the overwhelming majority that use alcohol in moderation. Like 99% of them. Everyone that I know or knew who smoked pot smoked it to get baked. No moderation what so ever. They wanted to get totally sh!+ faced. Fortunately for the pot heads and their defenders it doesn’t have the deleterious effect on motor skills that alcohol has on the user. But they are just as stoned as the drunk, they can just fool you. At least with the drunk you know what you get.
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