"Repealing Prohibition Is Not the Same As Endorsing the Previously Prohibited Activity." ?
We’ve wasted far too much money trying to get people to not smoke a plant.
Treat it like booze in the eyes of the law and be done with it.
There are a number of “safety sensitive” positions in the railroad industry alone in which the use of marijuana is a huge no-no, by order of the federal government, courtesy of Ricky Gates and the 1987 AMTRAK/CONRAIL collision in Chase, MD.
This will be interesting to watch.
More deaths will occur on Colorado roads due to Marijuana intoxication, some will kill individuals and families in the other cars.
More families will break up in Colorado due to the increased use. More children, who are innocent, will have to be placed into foster care than before.
Crimes will increase in Colorado, especially robberies and break-ins. As time goes on more of these will increase in violence as the desire for higher highs consumes the perpetrators.
We will simply have to wait and see if what Colorado has done is the right way to go. It was Colorado’s choice. Under our Constitution (as intended) other states could follow suit, go the exact opposite direction, or fall anywhere else on the issue. The results will be what they will be.
Blood tests at sobriety check points now?
“Repealing Prohibition Is Not the Same As Endorsing the Previously Prohibited Activity.” ?
I don’t know if its a Buckley quote, but it bears repeating.
The so-called ‘war on drugs’ has done much to erode our Fourth Amendment rights and has made criminals out of many otherwise productive citizens. I think fines, rather than prison time, are sufficient deterrent for marijuana use. Likewise society should not advocate destructive lifestyles such as homosexual behavior, promiscuous heterosexual behavior, drug or alcohol abuse, compulsive gambling, porn, street racing...the list goes on.
But the emphasis in these ‘no-victim’ crimes should be deterrence, rather than punishment.
The law does.
For another point of view from National Review -http://www.nationalreview.com/kudlows-money-politics
I am really tired of the stupid argument about adults being arrested for mariuana offenses. We have drug courts to handle those. It is a lot simpler than legalizing the pot use.
The AMA now states that heavy cannabis use among teenagers causes decreased cognitive thinking ability - PERMANENT DAMAGE. The government is already in the process of dumbing down the public school systems, do we have to dumb down the students as well?
Having had my car completely unloaded in a neighboring state and my family standing on the side of the road for 1.5 hours while we waited in freezing temps for a drug dog to arrive after a recent ski trip from Colorado -— where they found nothing and gave us a warning for no front license plate -— I see a problem with both drug laws and differing states having differing laws.
They left all our stuff on the side of the road — had to load it back with cars whizzing by at 75mph -— and left with not even an apology for wasting our time.
Dope for the dopes.
If we self-appointed better people allow the commoners to smoke pot, every fender bender will be the result of toking and driving. The streets will run with blood.
Now we will get to see what happens with legal pot as we have a pilot program, a state with about million people.
It can always be delegalized again. The people who want to smoke will do so anyway, just as they were before it was legal.
I haven’t heard an argument against it yet that couldn’t apply to cigs and booze.
I’d be fine with making all three illegal, if that could ever be enforced. It should be one way or the other or the arguments make no sense.
Yes.
Ever since he left the magazine, it has been run by snooty I-am-so-much-smarter-than-you-unwashed-ignorant-tools wrapped in Buckely’s cloak.
Give up on enforcing drug laws so druggies are no longer looked upon as criminals. I suppose the thinking is that instead of treating drug purchases as illegal (kind of like gambling and the Mafia), we'll just get the state to sanction, tax and maybe even run pot sales, like they have the Lottery. Of course, they will need lots of PSAs to run on radio, tv and movie theaters, advertising for "drug treatment facility spas," of course paid for by the taxpayers. Now, how many other laws (sins) do we discount so they are no longer against the law (no longer "called" sins?)
Potheads now may be your law enforcement officers, teachers, Mayors, Governors, Senators, House members, lawyers, Supreme Court Justices, bosses, employees.
How 'bout pat heads as your school bus drivers, city transit drivers, rail road engineers, airline pilots, air traffic controllers, nurses, dentists, dental hygienists, doctors, cancer researchers, XRay techs, surgeons?
No thanks!
Give m on everything no longer being illegal or morally wrong, then nothing is "bad," except for tobacco, large soft drinks, trans-fat, light bulbs, etc. you fill in the blanks!
There will be unintended consequences, of that I’m sure. ANd the most likely of these is more, not less, government intrusion into your life and abridgement of rights. For instance, does the use of a legal product act as a hammer in the hands of government should you exercise your 2nd Amendment rights? In Colorado the answer would have to be yes based on recent legislation.
At least somebody admits "medical marijuana" was all bs.
I don't believe pot is harmless because I have met some of its victims but I also think the WOD has been a big overreach. I'll be interested to see how Colorado does with this new policy, just the way I am interested to see how Holland did with their legalization that didn't work exactly as planned.
Will crime increase? Will DUIs? I'm still on the fence about whether this law is good or not for the general citizenry.
It’ll become like Amsterdam...The problem isn’t the Dutch, the problem is all the stupid tourists that come there from other countries to partake.
National Review off their rockers again, did they pray to Saint Mandela about this??
Cannabis has been available for medicinal and other use for a couple hundred years in this country. It didn’t get the recreational use or come up in the public dialogue back then as now, it was not a major issue in our culture
It became a focus in our culture first with it’s prohibition, which made it forbidden fruit, and then with the 50’s 60’s revolution when it became a rebellious thing to do. So in a way it was making it illegal in the first place that made this part of our culture.
I see the same people who lack discipline in other areas of their lives turn into slackers on this drug. That’s the downside. A lot of soft and easy people turn escapist and get mentally dependent. But there’s folks who use it more responsibly, too.
I like the story of oil field workers who all use off duty but kick the asses of guys who aren’t sharp on the job. Maybe we can do that on a national level. Skip the middleman, just start kicking screwups in the butt. Save the jail cells for Obama and his cronies...magic wand?