Tell Congress to Oppose HR 1528

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[Know your rights]

propose "really getting tough" on those who sell to minors?

Looks to me like legislation they would write.

Getting tough on those who sell to minors doesn't imply getting tough on those who know of such sales.

[Myrddin]

`SEC. 425. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person who witnesses or learns of a violation of sections 416(b)(2), 417, 418, 419, 420, 424, or 426 to fail to report the offense to law enforcement officials within 24 hours of witnessing or learning of the violation and thereafter provide full assistance in the investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of the person violating paragraph (a).

Wonderful. Now you are expected to have read and understood these sections and are under penalty of prosecution if you fail to comply. Everyone is compelled to be an unpaid law enforcement official. As usual, ignorance of the law is no excuse.

[Know your rights]

Everyone is compelled to be an unpaid law enforcement official.

Funny how some think that individual-as-cog-of-the-state is a 'conservative' position.

[2nd_Amendment_Defender]

Our prisons are already full of druggies. I would rather see a child molester, a raper, or a violent thug locked up rather someone who simply possessed or was selling weed.

[robertpaulsen]

"Getting tough on those who sell to minors doesn't imply getting tough on those who know of such sales."

Strawman.

I said I wouldn't be surprised to see exactly that type of legislation written by those who wish to legalize their precious marijuana. IMO, they'd throw the entire U.S. Constitution under the bus if they could just legally smoke dope.

[robertpaulsen]

"I would rather see a child molester, a raper, or a violent thug locked up rather someone who simply possessed or was selling weed."

Me too. Are you implying that this is not happening? Can you support it?

[Know your rights]

I wouldn't be surprised to see exactly that type of legislation written by those who wish to legalize their precious marijuana.

I'd be very surprised to see felony noninforming wrt minors in a bill written by legalizers.

[robertpaulsen]

"I'd be very surprised to see felony noninforming wrt minors in a bill written by legalizers."

Hah! If that were the last thing standing between the legalizers and their precious pot, they'd write it in caps.

[Know your rights]

You're entitled to your baseless opinion.

[publiusF27]

What has happened to my beloved Republican party?

Prohibition.

These are the kinds of powers that are needed in order to make prohibition at least seem to have a chance at success. You could hear all about it in the Congressional debates on CAFRA. More on that here. And here.

Prohibition is a policy which invites bigger and more intrusive government, because it's so darn difficult to enforce. People won't turn in their friends and family members who use illegal drugs? OK, make that inaction a felony. Like other socialist schemes, prohibition will continue to fail, and each failure will continue to be used to justify expanding the government's power and spending, and that will fail, and be used to justify more, and on and on.

[publiusF27]

I said I wouldn't be surprised to see exactly that type of legislation written by those who wish to legalize their precious marijuana.

That's nice, but no one from our side of the debate actually DID propose this. Someone from your side DID. All you can say is that it looks like something our side MIGHT do?

Great defense of the policies you love. Keep it up. While you're at it, how about offering an opinion on the issue, not a distortion of what someone else might do?

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Wow I just heard about this bill today. Sensenbrenner is awesone when it comes to illegal immigration but what he is proposing in 1528 is insane. For the sake of keeping the GOP running the House in the future it needs to die a quiet death.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

At least the bill has no co-sponsors.

It's also bottled up in committee where hopefully it stays.

[monkeywrench]

Good points. But, this way, exploding the prison population, we can compete with china. (/sarc)