White House Upholds States’ Rights, At Least For Marijuana

The Daily Caller ^ | 07/15/2014 | Jonah Bennett

[rawcatslyentist]

>"CO and WA have a right to burden their welfare systems through legalizing pot"

I'm not sure whom is more narcissistic, you or Hussein.

You really think you make the rain to fall, the sun to shine, and the earth to stand on.

How is the right to grow a God given plant without govt death squads murdering people in their homes considered welfare?

[ConservingFreedom]

If it could be proven a net benefit to the taxpayer,

In a free society, individual liberties don't have to be proven a "benefit" to be respected - they're the default position.

With today’s idiotic welfare system and refusal to politically profile people, I would inevitably be paying taxes towards welfare queens’ drug habit.

You're already doing that today - and she's spending a lot more of your money than she would if she were paying the free-market price for drugs rather than the black-market price. Not to mention the taxes you're paying towards enforcing anti-marijuana laws.

Should we legalize the anti-depressants which play a major role in getting liberals to shoot up our schools?

They're already legal.

I mistyped, sorry. Given that there is even more evidence for those causing mental illness, school shootings, and dependency than there is for marijuana causing those, would you argue for them remaining legal?

I think they're overprescribed, and I'm very open to further regulation of them (even at the federal level, since they're interstate commerce).

[Objective Scrutator]

Legalizing marijuana has nothing to do with the Fourth Amendment issues, execute the police who raid a home without a warrant. If you grow marijuana in private, smoke it in private, and don’t talk to anyone, the government will never know you smoke it.

What is your explanation for mostly liberals and Democrats, two groups who are notoriously evil and kleptomaniacal, supporting outright legalization? Do you really think legalization of the drug won’t increase the number of people applying for EBT stamps and welfare? There are plenty of stories where welfare queens brag about smoking pot, is my tax money supposed to assist these ingrates? Just look at stoner culture, they brag about being lazy all the time. Stoner culture is outright hostile to conservatism’s message of personal responsibility.

Are you aware that all proposed marijuana legalization bills place limits on people growing weed in their own homes, and will still lead to cops shooting people in their own homes? Only being allowed to buy from licensed dispensers isn’t freedom. Regulation isn’t freedom. Even the California voters recognized this with Prop 19.