Posted on 01/18/2018 5:42:35 AM PST by JP1201
An Aug. 3 Quinnipiac University poll indicated that 94 percent of Americans support adult use of marijuana for medical purposes, if prescribed by a doctor. This poll indicated that Republican support for medical marijuana is at 90 percent. An Oct. 25Gallup Poll shows that a majority of Republicans support fully legalizing marijuana. At a time when Republicans are worried about following the will of the voters they’ll face this November, they might want to note those lopsided numbers.
29 wrongs (+ DC) don’t make a right.
I’m a ConservaTarian. That’s a Conservative WITHOUT the dope smoking. ;)
However, medical use is fine with me. I never have understood why using natural products, as our ancestors did, is such a bad thing.
Oh, wait - when you give power back to the PEOPLE...there’s less money to be made off of them!
Now I remember.
That said, if it’s as loosely controlled as our opioid prescriptions have been, then that IS a problem for me.
The federal government should not be legislating marijuana.
The drug war has caused far more harm than good.
This could be how it ends up:
Medicinal marijuana and autonomous vehicles for some.
OR
Recreational marijuana and autonomous vehicles for all.
OK. Some say that you can obey some Federal laws but ignore others. Some you must obey. Don’t like drug laws and immigration laws, well just ignore them. Horrified by abortion. Too bad. Those laws are strictly enforced. Sorry but a country that behaves in that manner is divided among itself. Some “Federalists” imagined that this issue was definitively settled in 1865. There will be barricades and dissolution unless Congress changes the laws or the current laws are enforced.
I heard Ben Shapiro speak on this recently and he absolutely parroted my position on it:
1. Dope is stupid and those that take it need to grow up.
2. And it should be none of the government’s business.
what the hell is the point
In my opinion, you legalize it all and take the profit out of it. If people want to anesthetize themselves, so what?
The US already has plenty of stupid and lazy people and is busy obtaining more.
Dope makes one stupider and lazier.
Legalizing Dope would require offsetting legislation mandating increased average IQ.
Sessions is just enforcing (selectively) federal law. If the states want to do something different, they should work to have the law changed.
The Federal government clearly has the power to make immigration law under the constitution. What the article is questioning is whether they have the power to outlaw marijuana, and for that matter permit abortion. A true Federalist would say no to both.
So glad Sessions is focused on Weed instead of trivial stuff like Sedition, Treason and lllelgal survalance of a Presidential Candidate and POTUS.
Not to mention the tax payer money spent to find, arrest and incarcerate people. And you can tax it like booze.
I remember a comment being made at a Makers Mark distillery tour (I live near there) about the taxes on hard alcohol. The taxes are enormous before it is even put in the bottle. If the only taxes on booze were the same taxes on all other consumer goods, a “Family sized” bottle of Makers would go for probably around $15 instead of the $47 in Kentucky and, IIRC, $65 in Washington state.
Dope is just another way for the dems to control the masses.
This country has grown too big for a powerful, centralized Federal government. How "representative" are our Congressmen when an average district includes 735,000 people, a population larger than that of any state at the time the Constitution was ratified. States rights cut both ways: conservatives will dislike anti-gun laws in New York or California while liberals will dislike restrictions on abortion in Texas or Tennessee. Brothels are legal in most of Nevada while strictly prohibited in Utah. Wyoming is more permissive on fireworks than Colorado, which is more permissive on marijuana than Wyoming.
Dont blame Sessions for following the law. Just write a new law if there is that much support. That is the truly Constitutional way to proceed.
Now lets talk about how the states unconstitutionally infringe on the 2nd Amendment.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
It really is that simple.
Go to Congress and change the law. Stop writing, do something, stop taking the lazy way out, if it’s that important to you.
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