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Reps. Frank and Paul: Let states legalize pot
Seattle Post Intelligencer ^ | June 22, 2011 | Joel Connelly

Posted on 06/22/2011 1:23:14 PM PDT by Second Amendment First

A bipartisan team of Reps. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and Ron Paul, R-Texas, will introduce federal legislation that would permit states to legalize, regulate, tax and control marijuana without federal interference.

The legislation will be unveiled Thursday by Frank, an outspoken liberal Democrat, and the libertarian Paul, who is running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

The bill would limit the U.S. government role in marijuana enforcement to interdiction of cross-border or inter-state smuggling. Citizens would be able to legally grow, use or sell cannabis in states which have legalized the forbidden weed.

The legislation is the first bill to be introduced in Congress that would end federal marijuana prohibition.

In a preview of the legislation, the Marijuana Policy Project noted that last week marked the 40th Anniversary of when President Nixon declared that the federal government was at war with marijuana and other drugs.

Nixon had rejected recommendations by a presidential panel that the country move toward decriminalization and an education and treatment-based drug policy.

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.seattlepi.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 10a; 10thamendment; barneyfrank; bongbrigade; corruption; gethigh; liberalism; libertarian; libertarianism; moralabsolutes; prodope; psychosis; ronpaul; slavery; surrender; wod
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To: chris_bdba

Wow! Three answers to my 1 post! Couldn’t think straight to answer me in one post! What is wrong, you smoking pot?


161 posted on 06/22/2011 5:33:11 PM PDT by Buddygirl
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To: TigersEye

Me too! I’m probably more conservativce than most people.I would love to see Sarah run.


162 posted on 06/22/2011 5:33:36 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Second Amendment First
I agree with Barney. Let the states decide. I want to live in a state where pot is leagal and marrige is only allowed between a man and a woman.
163 posted on 06/22/2011 5:35:05 PM PDT by TBall
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To: Buddygirl

It’s not jsut a lucky few dear.Like I said earlier upwards of 85% of people under the age of 60 have smoked before and many of them have never stopped.I wish there was an honest study that did not start out with addicts or crazy people then I would say the results would be accurate.


164 posted on 06/22/2011 5:35:42 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: chris_bdba

My hubby and I. Sorry, but I just had to.


165 posted on 06/22/2011 5:37:17 PM PDT by TBall
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To: I see my hands

Nope, just stating what I have read over the years about the effects of pot smoking. By the way, why don’t you get your head out of the boudoir? That is no place for a gentleman to be, (if you are one)!


166 posted on 06/22/2011 5:38:16 PM PDT by Buddygirl
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To: Buddygirl

I dont know. Ive seen people in college who smoked daily, but when they were sober, they had excellent cognitive abilities. Its the same as people who drink. They act drunk when they are drunk, but all my friends passed their courses. They knew that there was a time to drink and a time to do work, and separated it.

One of my friends smoked every day and finished with an Industrial Engineering Degree in 2 1/2 years and then was accepted into a masters program based on merit.

These are just anecdotal stories, but I have seen people thrive while still throwing down in their offtime.


167 posted on 06/22/2011 5:38:19 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Buddygirl

NO perhaps yu shoud look again those were responses to different numered posts...one which was not to you. Boy some people sure become witches when their preconcided notions are challegned....BTW my IQ is over 140 so no I have no problem thinking.


168 posted on 06/22/2011 5:40:12 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Buddygirl
Do you think national mj prohibition is in keeping with the original understanding of the Commerce Clause and Tenth Amendment... yes or no?
169 posted on 06/22/2011 5:41:18 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: TBall

Helps to proof read sometimes sorry about the battered English....


170 posted on 06/22/2011 5:41:52 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: chris_bdba

You preconcieved...typos sorry I do not type well....


171 posted on 06/22/2011 5:43:37 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: chris_bdba

I do it all the time on FB. Drives me nuts.


172 posted on 06/22/2011 5:45:02 PM PDT by TBall
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To: Buddygirl

Is selfishness bad?

Or is it just “bad” selfishness when someone wants to do something that doesnt fit into your ethos?


173 posted on 06/22/2011 5:47:12 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: TBall

Yes but at least on FB you do have an edit now or you can copy, delete, and then edit to repost....here once you hit post it is too late. I am the queen of thinking faster than I can type,which means sometimes whole parts will be missing, and having at minimum one typo per post....


174 posted on 06/22/2011 5:48:04 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Raider Sam

Funny how some resort to insults when their arguments run thin....just like liberals.I’d like too know how it is selfish when I m am sitting in my own home not bothering anyone? I pay taxes more than most because we never wanted children.Heck I own 3 properties so pay school taxes 3 X....


175 posted on 06/22/2011 5:52:17 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: chris_bdba

OOOPPPPSSS to not too


176 posted on 06/22/2011 5:53:36 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Buddygirl

That’s a nice try but you avoided explaining “why” no Constitutional amendment was required to prohibit drugs and yet it was necessary in order to prohibit alcohol. Here is a hint; there was a legal reason for AMENDMENT XVIII. They didn’t go through the arduous and risky means of a Constitutional Convention for fun.


177 posted on 06/22/2011 6:18:17 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: chris_bdba
I'm single so it's nothing but a doggone distraction. I wish one of these young super-growers would come up with a strain of wacky tobaccy that lowered sex drive. Something that doesn't mess with the hormones. No saltpeter either thank you. lol
178 posted on 06/22/2011 6:22:04 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: drbuzzard
Don’t expect an answer. Prohibitionists never bother to recognize their previous failed experiment.

There is one subject they avoid tenaciously. The Constitution and how the rule of law applies to Federal drug laws. That means they are statists not conservatives.

179 posted on 06/22/2011 6:26:33 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: Buddygirl
So, they didn’t pass the law to prohibit drugs.

Then how did they get to be illegal? All drugs were legal at the turn of the 20th century.

180 posted on 06/22/2011 6:28:10 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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