[unspun]

Let's get off the false alternative of "WOD" or "Freedom to Be Stoned." I'm not in favor of abuse of the 4th Amendment. However, we have the freedom to govern.

[motzman]

Have you ever studied the origins of mj criminalization?

Maybe you should...you wouldn't want to be associated with the criminals that rammed that nonsense through congress.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

we have the freedom to govern.

What we? Where exactly is the right to dictate a person's habits indicated in the Constitution???
In fact, based on the Reserved Powers Clause, NOBODY has the right to dictate what another person does with their body. With alcohol, drugs or leather whips.
And, to address your constant assertion, how exactly would decriminalizing (not even legalizing, just decriminalizing) marijuana lead to a dope filled society. Percentage wise, use/abuse is LOWER during legal times than prohibition.
Remember when alcohol was outlawed? Where are all of the drunks and what happened to the bootlegger's violence?
Think carefully, not emotionally.

[steve50]

However, we have the freedom to govern.

Twice with the "freedom to govern" line? The goobermint is only free to govern within the limits of the Constitution, that's something we better relearn soon.

"If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way in which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for through this, in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. " Washington's Farewell Address 9-19-1796

We got legal medical in 8(?) states and polls are showing most Americans no longer support the laws as written on cannabis. Time to address this problem in the manner the Constitution says the government is " free to govern". The same way we did alcohol.