Reps. Frank and Paul: Let states legalize pot

Seattle Post Intelligencer ^ | June 22, 2011 | Joel Connelly

[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.

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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.

They smell the money. If the states legalize it, the quality will go in the toilet, there will be a three-month waiting period for a fifteen-dollar joint, and the jails will suddenly have a whole lot of extra cots.

[Second Amendment First]

To prohibit alcohol they had to pass a constitutional amendment, which was subsequently repealed. I don’t see any constitutional prohibitions on any other drugs.

[ken5050]

Where to begin?

1.You want to add 20 million or so to the Soc Sec disability rolls?

2. You want to see your auto insurance premiums double/triple?

I can go on, and on..

Remember, 99.9% of addicts today started with MJ....

[MrEdd]

Birds of a feather.

[TigersEye]

It’s already basically legal in many states. OR, CO, CA and NM. It sure reduced the numbers of illegal aliens around here.

[advance_copy]

Nope, just stoners.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Waste of time. Three-quarters of the country is still pro prohibition. It’s going nowhere in the House and the sponsors know it.

Total red herring.

[Responsibility2nd]

Probably the only thing on which I would agree with Barney Frank.

 

 

You really should be ashamed. First you libs take on the moon-bat buffoonery of Ron Paul as your feckless leader.

 

Now you jump on board the Barney Frank bandwagon? Hope you dont catch some nasty disease.

 

What's next? Would you endorse Weiner if he were to also support legal dope smoking?

When you consider the fact that NO TRUE CONSERVATIVE supports this pro-dope BS, then do you start to wonder if there if something WRONG with you?

[ansel12]

Then the states can tax it like cigarettes, a windfall.

If people could create Scotch, a Samuel Adams or Marlboro cigarettes, as easily as you can grow a weed at home, do you think people would be paying the taxes on those items?

You can grow your own pot just once every few years and have an unlimited supply of it in the garage, refinement, complicated, delicate, elaborate drying and other processes under controlled conditions is not necessary.

[TigersEye]

Remember, 99.9% of addicts today started with MJ....

100% of them drank milk as kids. (as long as we're indulging in logical fallacies)

[arderkrag]

It's long past time to end the war on drugs.

Yep. It's sad how long this nonsense war has been run, with who knows how many agencies rofiting from it. Even more sad is how many "conservatives" turn into authoritarians when the big bad drug issue comes up.

[TigersEye]

I voted for McCain. So you may have a point.

[humblegunner]

Remember, 99.9% of addicts today started with MJ....

As well as folks who make up statistics.

Bunch of loser dopers, the lot. Making up statistics like that.

[Little Ray]

And while they are at it, they should kick all non-violent potheads out of prison.

[tacticalogic]

To prohibit alcohol they had to pass a constitutional amendment, which was subsequently repealed. I don’t see any constitutional prohibitions on any other drugs.

There's nothing in there about CO2 emissions, light bulbs, assault weapons, or "hate crimes" either. They're all fraudulent powers made up out of thin air and ephemeral "findings" of "substantial effects on interstate commerce".

[Macoozie]

Grow my own weed. Grow my own tobacco. Distill my own spirits. All without interfernce or taxation from the government.
Even I can agree with him and I don’t smoke or drink.
Amen Brother Paul, Amen . . .

[Second Amendment First]

I certainly don’t expect utopia. Let the states regulate the same as they do with alcohol. I don’t follow what others will be harmed, unless you mean the gang dealers who will lose their income. It will knock a big chunk out of the underground economy, save tax dollars and hopefully rid LEO agencies of one source of corruption.

[boomop1]

For the Childrun you know.

[Responsibility2nd]

 

 

 

RON: Hey Barn. Let's sneak off and fire up a fat one.

[screaminsunshine]

Go Ron. The only candidate who will make a dimes worth of difference. Legalize it. When will all the Dupes figure it out? They think he is only right of a few policies. Duhhh.