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Crimes/Accidents Committed While High On Pot in Wa/Or/Co-Can States Be Named Co-Defendant?

Posted on 05/12/2016 8:24:11 AM PDT by Be Careful

Since these states are legislating by usurping Federal law, can they be held responsible for creating/enabling an environment that contributed to an accident or a crime?


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To: taxcontrol

“There is no constitutional authority for the feds here.”

Yep, all they can do is appeal to court-stitutional authority.


41 posted on 05/12/2016 9:59:05 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: tacticalogic
They should have shot Wickard and sent Filburn to Congress.

Now THAT is living up to your screen name.

42 posted on 05/12/2016 10:00:05 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: thoughtomator

Name calling means you have no argument that will work. My family has generations of dealing with addictive behavior. You can peddle your snake oil to someone else.


43 posted on 05/12/2016 10:10:57 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: dware

State’s rights only counts when it’s things I like. If it’s something I dont like, then screw states rights and Im all for the almighty power of federal gov.

Personal responsibility? Not for things I dont like.

Facts? Those only apply for things I like / support. For those things I dont like, it’s all about emotional reasoning.

And this ends today’s lesson on Cuckservatism.


44 posted on 05/12/2016 10:15:23 AM PDT by drunknsage
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To: Boogieman

“... Don’t forget that part. The entire premise of these laws is that the goons in the government think they are better suited to decide what we can put in our own bodies than we are.”

Oh, I didn’t forget that. I assumed that was clearly implied.


45 posted on 05/12/2016 10:17:09 AM PDT by LaRueLaDue
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To: Donglalinger

That is not true. Then new breed of skunk weed is making 15% of people psychotic - thus the snowflakes on campus and first time users jumping off of roofs or shooting their family.


46 posted on 05/12/2016 10:17:45 AM PDT by cassiusking
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To: rawcatslyentist

“Every state issues alcohol permits. Are they liable for drunks murdering people every year?”

No. But taxed alcohol isn’t illegal under Federal law.


47 posted on 05/12/2016 10:18:24 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: fella

Sounds like you’re addicted to doing the wrong thing and afraid to admit it.


48 posted on 05/12/2016 10:22:35 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: catnipman

> No. But taxed alcohol isn’t illegal under Federal law.

All alcohol was once illegal under Federal law.


49 posted on 05/12/2016 10:29:14 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: dware
"...Sounds a whole lot like a State's right's issue to me. ...'

But but but, the pot could be transported over state lines!

50 posted on 05/12/2016 10:30:31 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: fella
"...Never even look like your getting between an addict and their fix...."

Certainly you know that pot does not create "addicts" who need a "fix", as it is not an addictive substance that requires more and more of the substance to get high.

In fact, the opposite is true. It's called reverse tolerance.

51 posted on 05/12/2016 10:32:53 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: catnipman
No. But taxed alcohol isn’t illegal under Federal law.

Marijuana is illegal under federal law.

Where is something like that enumerated as a federal power by the Constitution?

Seems like the feds are overstepping their bounds in trying to ban one of God's own plants...

52 posted on 05/12/2016 10:35:08 AM PDT by sargon (Continue with 24/7 anti-Trump diatribes & insults, your opus will be assumed.)
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To: thoughtomator; fella
Thought, I would not have called fella an idiot.

Everything you said, though, is spot on.

Some conservatives forget that a fundamental aspect of conservatism is the defending the freedom to do what you will as long as you are not harming others.

53 posted on 05/12/2016 10:36:16 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: wideminded
"...You don't often hear of people committing crimes while high on marijuana...."

That's because I am so darn high, it affects my hearing, or something.

54 posted on 05/12/2016 10:37:52 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: T-Bone Texan; fella

you are more generous than I!

Anyone who hasn’t been able to figure it out by now is either an idiot or riding the government funding gravy train and conflicted.


55 posted on 05/12/2016 10:38:44 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: Go Gordon

“Alcohol can be consumed in acceptable levels to still drive a vehicle. Pot, not so much.”

Sure, that’s why pot-related fatalities are such a leading cause of roadway deaths!

/sarc


56 posted on 05/12/2016 10:40:33 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: slumber1
To my knowledge there is no test that can determine whether or not a person is high on marijuana

If you get into an accident and kill someone, they do drug screening. If you have metabolites of weed in your whiz quiz, you will be charged with OWI and manslaughter (in my state.) It varies from person to person, but it can take up to a month (heavy user) after smoking weed to pass a whiz quiz. If you smoke once or infrequently, most people can pass in a week. The reason it takes so long is the metabolites are stored in your body fat.

57 posted on 05/12/2016 10:40:44 AM PDT by IamConservative (There is no greater threat to our freedoms than Bipartisanship.)
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To: fella

“My family has generations of dealing with addictive behavior.”

I see, so when it’s YOUR problem, you like big government trying to fix it, eh?


58 posted on 05/12/2016 10:41:47 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: slumber1

Well, THC-detecting blood tests don’t exactly measure whether the person is “high” but they are very common.


59 posted on 05/12/2016 10:41:53 AM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OMorgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Go Gordon
"...Alcohol can be consumed in acceptable levels to still drive a vehicle. Pot, not so much...

Wait, what?

Did you just make that up? What do you base that assertion on?

Are you implying that any amount of pot in a persons' system makes them unable to drive safely?

60 posted on 05/12/2016 10:42:28 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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