[jessduntno]

Sometimes taking no action is an action...

[ETL]

[Sir Gawain]

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.

[Vaquero]

[Erik Latranyi]

The 21st century version of “Let them eat cake”.......”Let them smoke weed”

[HiTech RedNeck]

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.

[HiTech RedNeck]

except Bloomberg => unless Bloomberg

[dirtboy]

AIM continues its crusade against pot, which IMO is less harmful than booze (and no, I don’t smoke pot).

[dirtboy]

where some of the same Mexican drug gangs are planting and harvesting their crop.

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.

[Ken H]

Suppose CA votes to legalize marijuana. Do you think they have that prerogative under the Tenth Amendment; or do you think fedgov has legitimate authority under the Commerce Clause to override the state?