Posted on 02/27/2009 8:34:48 AM PST by DouglasKC
You may have read that the Obama administration has altered United States government policy and has sanctioned "medical" marijuana by ending raids on "clinics" where "medical" marijuana is passed out.
The use of quotes in the paragraph above is deliberate. It's my view and the views of millions of conservatives that there is no such thing as "medical" marijuana...or at least in the way it's being presented to the public.
"Medical" marijuana is simply a term for pot being sold for profit under the guise that it helps a plethora of medical problems. The "clinics" are essentially drug dens that are attempting to gain a little more respectability. It has been the policy of the United States government to raid and shut down these clinics.
Now here's the problem. There are many so called conservatives that support these drug dens. They say that it's a states right issue. That this isn't a power delegated to the United States government.
Clearly this is a debatable point. For example I would offer that it's in the best interest of the country to ban something that is in the worst interest of the country. For example if we had a communist power develop a drug that would make our citizens lazy and unproductive then nobody would argue that we should allow this power to freely distribute this drug in the United States. There would be no hew and cry about "states rights".
But nonetheless there are those who have seized upon the issue of "medical" marijuana as the ultimate expression of states rights. That's fine. That's their rights as Americans. But here's what I wish.
I wish they would be honest and apply the same standard to abortion and pornography. I wish they would stand up and proclaim that abortion and pornography are in the same league. Because if you want to embrace their viewpoint you MUST embrace pornography and abortion.
Abortion, by their logic, should also be a state right. Pornography, by their logic, should also be a state right. Yet the federal government has mandated, by court decisions and law, that the support of these issues are the law of the land.
Now I happen to believe the opposite. I think these two issues are so dangerous to the country as a whole that they SHOULD be banned nationwide for the common welfare of the union of states.
What happened? It's easy. Religious morality stopped in government. We went from a nation governed by religion based morals a government based on amoral, or immoral principles. And let me make it clear..when I say religious morals I'm talking precisely about Judeo-Christian morality...or at least what this morality used to be.
And here's what these so called new conservatives fail to conserve. They fail to conserve the religious morality that stopped our leaders from ruling from a non-principled viewpoint. They fail to conserve the idea that right and wrong don't come from man or man's laws, but from God, the creator of man. They fail to conserve the notion that certain things are repugnant to God and to those who have His morals.
They have taken up the mantle of the 60's generation. Sex and drugs. Don't tell us what to do. We don't like your morals. Once they succeeded in tearing down God, they began working on the government.
John Adams, the 2nd President of the United States said "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
Oh so true. Without morals and religion our constitution fails. It breaks. It doesn't work. It's inadequate. It can be twisted and shaped to whatever viewpoint the rulers want.
Pot. Abortion. Pornography. All of these are issues that a moral people and a moral government instinctively reject. But remove morality from the equation and anything goes. God save us.
Pure cocaine is very commonly used in eye surgery.
Morphine surrets, a kind of small foil toothpaste tube with a needle attached, has been used on battlefields for decades.
Morphine and heroin are excellent painkillers, and yes are still used, most commonly morphine in last stage hospice pain managemet,(i.e., doped until you pass away)
It is also the viewpoint of millions of conservatives that the federal government has no Constitutional say in regulating or restricting California's actions here if the pot in question does not cross state lines. That's the great thing about our government works (or least how it used to work) - if you don't like the pot laws in California, there are other states with more restrictive laws.
Federal regulation of porn and pot rely on the same open-ended interpretation of the Commerce Clause the New Deal and all of Obama's stimulus and reform programs do. As long as he keeps the Republicans talking about wanting federal regulation of those under the "substantial effects" doctrine there's no grounds for them to make any kind of constitutional challenge to his programs.
I doubt prohibition for the entire country would work anywhere near as well.
Medicinal alcohol.
Of course there is. I keep a bottle of it as a disinfectant.
If I grew up in a socialist/welfare plantation, constantly immersed in the mindset of ghetto/projects/reservations/Democrat/Socialist mind think.....I’d drink my self blind too.
Australia has a history of socialism. Further the aborginioes can be thought of as either our urban/detroit/oakland/ black urban walking dead or American Indian reservation/plantation serfs. Another group, just to dispel the race element is of course Russians under Soviet socialism. So too the Irish under British paternalism.
Where ever you find velvet gloved socialism, you find dispiritism and alcoholism in mass amounts.
I think it means his/her vanity is posted here only on Freerepublic.
Bad example? Morphine is definately used commonly in hospitals.
religious nanny-statism? how is that different from any other for of communism?
Exactly.
Republicans want their un-constituional cake and eat it too.
So how is your bong this morning?
Respondents Diane Monson and Angel Raich use marijuana that has never been bought or sold, that has never crossed state lines, and that has had no demonstrable effect on the national market for marijuana. If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything–and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.
Doug, I see it didn’t take long for the Liberals to show up and start flaming on ya.
End the War on (Some) Drugs!
Have you stopped raping llamas yet?
Thank you for your answers. Of course there is a medicinal use for these items. And thank God for the pain killing effects of the opium derivatives. I do not believe that there is no use for marijuana as a pain killer, and if a Doctor told a patient to use it, then so be it. (Sigh, and yes, living in California, I am aware also of the issue of caregivers and “medical marijuana prescriptions”.)
so you are ok with a meth house next door to you?
No. It does not help.
Perhaps if you explain why porn should be a Constitutional Right. Or why drugs should be legalized. Or why abortion laws are fine as they are now.
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