Posted on 01/27/2014 6:51:27 PM PST by wonkowasright
Floridians will vote on medical marijuana come November, after a divided Florida Supreme Court ruled Monday that ballot language for a proposed constitutional amendment meets all legal requirements.
If at least 60 percent of voters agree, Florida could become the first Southern state to legalize use of marijuana for health-related reasons.
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Come November Florida will very likely vote to allow marijuana use for at least some citizens and take a step toward ending prohibition.
Maybe we can stop the war on our citizens.
It always disgusts me when people will claim to love liberty in one breath and then support the WOD in the next.
Couldn’t you use the same argument about the war on prostitution?
Recent news articles have suggested that this is a ploy by the Florida Democrats to get lots of young pot smokers out to vote for Crist.
And thats just a pile of BS.
Talk about desperation.
What disgusts me is how quickly the taxpayers started picking up the tab for pot in Colorado.
They can buy it with their EBT cards and a new entitlement was born.
Yeah freedom. LOL
That’s exactly what this is.
How do we fight them?
Mudwrestle?
And the simultaneous moves in all the other states, like Colorado etc. were just to set the playing field so that the FL voters would get excited and vote for the wrong governor ?
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
What federal War on Prostitution are you speaking of?
How are they still saying this is “medical” with a straight face? Here in Michigan and other states it’s clear that they’re just an effort to get pot legalized so potheads can smoke their brains out without worrying about getting busted. Every pothead I know went out and got their “medical” marijuana card as soon as they could....
Love ya, man, but that was a total bs statement. EBT cards can get cash at ATMs which can but anything but they cannot be used to buy pot directly.
I agree with you. The medical bit is 100% pure tripe. But it works and sets up for the next step, outright legalization.
The same thing was witnessed during the prohibition years : http://www.history.com/news/drink-some-whiskey-call-in-the-morning-doctors-prohibition
So I agree with you the medicinal stuff is bumpkis but its a good way to get the ball rolling toward full legalization and stop the war on the citizens.
Show me a single instance where an EBT card was used to buy pot.
Snopes says “false” => http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/potfoodstamps.asp
Sure. Why not legalize it? It is legal in Nevada and the world didn’t end there.
I was not specifying a federal war on prostitution, but I guess this would do:
Title 18 Part I Ch. 117 Sec. 2422 “Whoever knowingly persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any individual to travel in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any Territory or Possession of the United States, to engage in prostitution, or in any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.”
I don’t see how you can rally for drug legalization as a “liberty” issue while at the same time being a against the legalization of prostitution.
That being said, those that favor legalization of drugs and prostitution are, IMHO, more libertarian than conservative.
I’m against both.
This attempt a legalizing pot is part of a strategy cooked up by wealthy, democrat supporting lawers where Charlie Crist is employed to help get Crist elected Governor again.
Former governor Crist (2007 to 2011) is the orange-skinned turncoat who changed his party from Republican to Democrat after losing a Senate primary battle to Marco Rubio in 2010.
The idea is that having the pot referendum on the ballot will bring young voters to the polls in big numbers on election day, and while there they will likely vote the democrat ticket.
But Crist will no doubt have some tough competition for the democrat nomination unless his lawyer pals can buy off, scare off, or blackmail the other democrats.
The 'liberty' issue is the Tenth Amendment. States are entitled under the Tenth Amendment to regulate matters of health and morality. They are the ones that regulate intrastate prostitution under current federal law. That is not true of intrastate mj regulation.
1. In your opinion, should states be the one to regulate local prostitution, even if it means legalization?
2. In your opinion, do CO and WA have legitimate constitutional authority under the Tenth to regulate intrastate mj policies?
States are the ones to regulate intrastate prostitution under current federal law?
United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that George McLeod, III, a/k/a “Pimpstick Quezzy,” age 30, of Columbia, pled guilty today in federal court in Columbia, to interstate transportation for the purpose of prostitution, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2421, and aggravated identity theft, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028A. United States District Judge Joseph Anderson of Columbia accepted the plea.
The case was investigated by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Seems federal to me.
As does this where the feds are working with the stateFederal and Local Law Enforcement Crack Down on Prostitution and Human Trafficking in Colorado
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