Too long to read but I am 100% behind enforcing the federal prohibition on pot and rolling back state legalization. Get rid of it all. Protect and encourage companies and organizations to identify and fire pot users, anyone that illegally uses drugs. Purge it from society, make clear there are harsh consequences for possession and use.
My problem with this is that pot is still a Schedule 1 drug. This means that companies who want to explore industrial hemp possibilities are out of luck. Currently US companies have to import hemp, becasue across most of the country growing it is illegal. The 2018 Farm Bill passed int he Senate made industrial hemp legal; the House blocked it's passage, though.
Low ball estimates of the industrial hemp market in the US at around $688M a year. That's $688M without a single puff of a joint.
You can’t get rid of pot by making it illegal. It is a plant that grows out of the ground. Even the most restrictive gun laws can’t keep guns away from criminals. Tobacco taxes don’t stop people from smoking they just make them buy cheaper cigarettes or get them from other states. Drug laws serve to make drugs expensive and many of the social ills of drugs are related to the expense of drugs. If you don’t want to smoke drink or do drugs then don’t. But those that do want to will do them regardless of legality.
Yeah, that'll work! Lol.
We like to preach that gun prohibition will not stop guns from being used, and in the same breath, we suggest that somehow making/keeping pot illegal will work. Do you not realize the goofiness of that position?
I'll ask you the same question I ask of all prohibitionists: How much are the mexican drug cartels paying you to advocate prohibition, so that they can keep their product flowing?
Why do you think Congress in 1917 realized that they had no authority to prohibit alcohol, and that therefore the Constitution had to be amended to grant them that power, but in 1971 they somehow discerned that they had the authority to prohibit this plant?
I am anti-legalization. I think it's a terrible mistake and that people will suffer needlessly because of it.
I just don't think Congress has any authority over the states on this issue.