Drug Czar Won't Respond To Nevada Campaign Law Complaint

Associated Press ^ | Jan. 28, 2003

[tacticalogic]

And the public doesn't have to listen to him if they don't want to, you're just angry that they did listen to his message.

I don't live in Nevada. Do I have any business telling the citizens of Nevada how to run their state?

[philman_36]

Four legs good, two legs better.
Don't you just love seeing a government operation unfold...

[Dane]

I don't live in Nevada. Do I have any business telling the citizens of Nevada how to run their state?

You actually did with your pro-pot posts on threads like this, but they didn't listen to you and voted down the pro-pot intiative.

[Hacksaw]

If your side didn't have such a hard-on for criminalizing marijuana, we could move on to more pressing, more important matters.

It already is illegal.

[tacticalogic]

You actually did with your pro-pot posts on threads like this, but they didn't listen to you and voted down the pro-pot intiative.

I've expressed my opinion on threads here. I didn't go there and actively campaign against the initiative, and take their money to do it with wheather they agreed with me or not.

[philman_36]

...wonderweed...
You know, I keep seeing this word and I know that you're using it in a negative connotation, but you may actually be right that marijuana is a wonderweed.
Do you know of any other plants that have 60+ unique chemicals?
Oops...new research shows over 300...
The Cannabis genus is the only known plant in the plant kingdom that produces Cannabinoids.
Snip...More than 300 Cannabinoid and related compounds have been reported as natural constituents of the Cannabis plant.

You're exactly right, it is a wonderweed. Thanks for bringing me around. I think I'll start calling marijuana wonderweed too...
Got any others that can compare?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

It already is illegal.

Good Lord, really? Thanks for the update!

[EBUCK]

Send him to the gas chambers for using his first amendment right for speaking out against your wonderweed, I tells you...

Say it all he wants but if he spends money campaigning he must report it, that's the law! Far be it for you to support upholding the law.

[EBUCK]

Look the pro-drug lobby put a lot of money into the failed Nevada rpo-pot initiative also, no one stopped them.

Yah, and quite unlike your ultimate lawman, they reported all their expendetures. That's waht this is about, not pot. It's about whether or not the fed can come in on our dime and campaign against out initiatives and skirt our law!

[tacticalogic]

Dane, have you ever seen the statue of Lady Justice? If you haven't you should check it out. Pay particular attention to the blindfold.

[philman_36]

I'll go out on a limb and guess that you won't be gracing this thread again.
If you do grace this thread again I doubt it will be to address my comments above.
BTAIMBW

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[jmc813]

Marijuana Policy Project, anti-First amendment nazi's with bongs.

So Dane, going by your reasoning, President Bush is an anti-1st Amendment nazi for signing CFR, no?

[robertpaulsen]

"politicking in a STATE matter"

What's the next STATE matter for Nevada, bringing back Jim Crow laws? Would it be OK if Ashcroft were to go out there and give his opinion, or is that, too, a misuse of Federal dollars?

Here's a hint: The Federal laws against MM and Jim Crow have been found constitutional, and it is appropriate for Federal officials to comment on them. They're not STATE matters (ask Mr. Rosenthal).

[Hemingway's Ghost]

The Federal laws against MM and Jim Crow have been found constitutional, and it is appropriate for Federal officials to comment on them.

Wrong. The CSA has never been found "constitutional." As far as I know, the USSC hasn't granted cert to a case directly challenging the constitutionality of the CSA.

Would it be okay with you, then, if a leftist federal attorney general spent your tax money campaigning against a ballot initiative in Massachusetts or California trying to nullify its existing ban on assault weapons?

[tacticalogic]

Here's a hint: The Federal laws against MM and Jim Crow have been found constitutional, and it is appropriate for Federal officials to comment on them. They're not STATE matters (ask Mr. Rosenthal).

I don't recall Nevada having a referendum on federal laws.

[jmc813]

No actually a Libertarian, same difference(on foreign policy and social issues such as abortion).

The great majority of libertarians on FR are pro-life. I also pinged you to an anti-abortion article by NJ Libertarian Murray Sabrin the other day.

Now, you're claiming that when you quit smoking pot, your views on foreign policy, abortion, and economics all magically changed?

[dirtboy]

Here's a hint: The Federal laws against MM and Jim Crow have been found constitutional, and it is appropriate for Federal officials to comment on them.

If the federal officials in question wish to comment on the laws from Washington, that is their perogative and Nevada cannot touch them. However, if they are going to spend federal money to campaign against a state initiative, they should submit the same paperwork that any other groups engaging in such submits. Or do you consider the feds to be immune from state laws?

[headsonpikes]

"...have you ever seen the statue of Lady Justice?"

That's not a blindfold; that's a bandage.

Folks such as Dane's pals put her eyes out.

[robertpaulsen]

Short and sweet: What's the point in approving (real) assault rifles at the state level if the Feds are gonna come aknockin'? A leftist federal attorney general telling me just that would save me a lot of time and money, wouldn't he?

It would also tell me that if I want an assault rifle, I've got some work to do at the federal level. Maybe I can get it done with the legislators. Maybe it'll have to wait for more conservative supremes. Maybe it will require a constitutional amendment.

What's your solution? Open defiance of the Feds? Do you want physical confrontation with Washington? Another Civil War? Secessation?

You can sit there and bitch and moan about 10th amendment this, and states rights that, but what is your solution? To stop, or harrass, a federal official from doing his constitutional job?