Posted on 03/18/2010 7:11:58 AM PDT by AIM Freeper
Sometimes taking no action is an action...
I wonder if Obama is getting his cut?
You can’t destroy the market. The War on Some Drugs is like a pebble. The market is the river that just rushes around the pebble without even slowing down.
“I wonder if Obama is getting his cut?”
Taking it out in trade, judging from his performance with Bret Baier ...
;-)
The 21st century version of “Let them eat cake”.......”Let them smoke weed”
A diet of potato chips isn’t particularly helpful to health either, but they’re not banned (except Bloomberg has done it in NYC). I wish the research reports would quantify the usage and usage patterns versus the harm (especially when polypharmacy is involved), because otherwise depending on what axe is being ground we will hear wildly different generalities and nobody will be the better informed.
A more salient concern would be that a lot of pot is coming from Mexico (rather than leaking from state sanctioned medpot operations) with all the trouble that feeds.
except Bloomberg => unless Bloomberg
AIM continues its crusade against pot, which IMO is less harmful than booze (and no, I don’t smoke pot).
And why do Mexican gangs grow and traffic pot? Because it is illegal, just as criminals trafficked booze when it was illegal.
The Drug Warriors just don't want to acknowledge that the black market in pot is solely a function of it being illegal - you can grow the crap at home, it's even easier to create than home-brewed beer.
Weight for weight the booze would obviously have less effect. There need to be some parameters put to this, such as typical habits etc.
Ask any cop what they fear more - responding to a party or domestic dispute where they are smoking pot, or a party or domestic dispute where they are drinking.
Alluding to the refusal of the Obama Administration to use federal resources to combat the growing "medical marijuana" problem, Roger Morgan, the executive director of the Coalition for a Drug-Free California, told AIM that "It is unthinkable that the Commander-In-Chief, whose primary responsibilities are to protect people and our tax dollars, could allow the untenable situation that exists in California today with de facto legalization."
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/pentagon-shooter-pot-scandal-grows/
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Sounds like another not-so-limited-government conservative, who is in favor of limited government just so long as it doesn't limit what he wants government to be doing.
The commerce clause should allow the Federal government to step in and settle disputes between the States about commerce in goods such as Marijuana, but it shouldn’t give them the power to flat-out ban it nationwide. For example, if Oregon has banned it, but California continues to illicitly import it into that state, the Federal government could use the commerce clause to step in and put a stop to that.
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