Posted on 06/08/2012 12:53:33 PM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies
If you didn't no one really wants to hear about it.
Loss of confisgated cars, houses, boats and money.
No.
If you didn't no one really wants to hear about it.
Since the article has nothing to do with smack, new or old, I can only conclude that you're jonesing for a new sort of smack. Sorry to disappoint you.
Any response to what the article actually does say?
Loss of confisgated cars, houses, boats and money.
Strange how the same FReepers who easily see through big-government claims of "compassion" let themselves be taken in by the DEA's hogwash.
A lot of them think ending the federal drug war will suddenly make marijuana legal, too.
You might get a dark chuckle out of this rant - that to end federal drug laws would be to “impose a Soviet-style mandate” on “every state, every county, every town, every neighborhood, every family, and every individual in the country”: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2889053/posts?page=31#31
The Federal Government has no credibility on the issue of marijuana. They have been lying about it for 80 years and will continue as long as they can.
I think you could have stopped there. ;-)
A lot of people just don’t grok “republic”. I think the public schools are responsible for that, and that it’s calculated and intentional.
Or “free”.
Speak for yourself. I like reading his articles.
You'll have the potential for that with any government regulation. The problem with federal regulation is that the regulators are too far removed from the things they're regulating and the people those regulations affect to be be held accountable, or even identifiable.
We could start by taking the “FDA” label and turning it, legally, into no more and no less than the national “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval” for “drugs”, making it a requirement to show you have or don’t have it and that you must inform your patients that you (you’re “medicine”) has or doesn’t have the “FDA” seal of approval.
Together with the requirement that the doctor is responsible for providing thorough, transparent and honest knowledge to the patient regarding ANY medicine prescribed, doctors would continue, for the most part, to rely on “proven” remedies, that with or without FDA approval can be supported by medical research and experience.
Why should this be enough?
Because “FDA approval” is not even now enough to prevent a lawsuit for the prescription of a drug for its accepted use. If it is not enough, if completely following “FDA approved guidelines” is not enough, if what the FDA says is legal or not in the use of a drug is not enough, then why should it’s recommendation be more than just a recommendation - the “best one” but still, a recommendation.
It shouldn’t.
DEA trying to justify it existence PERIOD
Why don’t you let people choose for themselves? You think it’s somehow going to hurt you? Those folks are doing it anyway, whether it’s legal or not.
Your war on marijuana is over. At least 17 states have decriminalized possession and use in some form or another. I think Mass. has joined that list recently. Now, New York is thinking about it by not arresting for possession of small amounts. Even New Hampshire, with Republican majorities in both houses of the legislature, has legislation pending.
It’s not a matter of if the Fed Gov would decriminalize it, it’s when.
So, stock up on your guns and butter for when the pot hippies come and put a drum circle on your front land.
There is no enumerated power in the Constitution that gives them the authority to make that decision.
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