Posted on 12/14/2011 3:36:46 AM PST by Yosemitest
Lame. But pro-dopes always drag the prohibition argument into the mix.
And big-government Drug Warriors always evade the obvious point: laws against the lethal, addictive drug alcohol did more harm than good, so why should we think the opposite is or could be true about other drugs?
If you believe that, then how do you justify supporting national marijuana prohibition, which is based on the UNCONSTITUTIONAL New Deal view of the Commerce Clause?
They don’t believe in the Constitution, which was the whole point of my first post. They say they do, but they don’t. They only believe in it when it suits them and supports their position.
Are you listening to yourself? You have moved past the “Legalize dope” mantra of liberals everywhere...
Into the “Let the Government subsidize it and tax it and profit from it” crapola that libertarians are famous for.
After all, Big gubmint is subsidizing, taxing and profiting off of alcohol, and you want the same for marijuana?
Typical liberal. Wants MORE government - not less.
No, the "legalize all non-rights-violating acts" principle of freedom-lovers everywhere.
Into the “Let the Government subsidize it and tax it and profit from it” crapola that libertarians are famous for.
After all, Big gubmint is subsidizing, taxing and profiting off of alcohol,
How is government subsidizing alcohol?
and you want the same for marijuana?
Typical liberal. Wants MORE government - not less.
By that argument, the conservative position is to criminalize everything the government taxes. Pretty dumb - even for a Drug Warrior.
Ron Paul: Legalizing Marijuana Is a State's Constitutional Right
Yeah. So what?
But he’s right about that. The federal government has no legitimate authority in this area.
It might not be a good idea, but under the Constitution, a state could do it.
Now, the Progressives have contorted the meaning of this power to support everything from National Healthcare (Obamacare), to regulation of monopolies, price-fixing, wage regulation, and many other unconstitutional federal activities.
Other unconstitutional federal activities such as their War On Drugs.
If drugs were legal, their prices would plummet and so would the crime done to buy them.
Only an idiot would support legalization of these deadly substances.
My God; you are hysterical.
Ever see a chronic doper work for a living?
"Plummet" does not mean "go to zero." With lower prices, dopers who commit crimes for drug money would need to commit fewer - QED.
Says the confirmed Rambo-level drug warrior. You're either joking or incredibly dumb.
Anytime somebody tells you "All you need to know is..", you can bet there's more to it than what they're telling you and they don't want you to know what it is.
Give me the number. I know people who partake from all walks of life, all of them employed and contributing members of society. In fact, I know several who could probably buy and sell you and just about everyone who posts here several times over.
Generalizations aren't your friends, friend.
Freedom, abiding by the Constitution seems to scare a lot of folks. The loss of freedoms due to the war on drugs is mind boggling. How many have died because of no knock laws? How much lost wealth do to property seizure? How many pot heads crowding jails for a couple of joints. I agree end the war on drugs, at the very least for pot. Gov greatly expended it power to fight the war on drugs, just like it greatly expanded it power to fight the war on terror. And lot’s of folks that claim to support the Constitution are just fine with that, go figure.
Curious, I am just following the argument along, but are you saying that the fed gov can not ban MJ? Would not a simple can making it a federal crime to possess MJ do it? thanks.
a simple can = a simple law
Curious, I am just following the argument along, but are you saying that the fed gov can not ban MJ? Would not a simple law making it a federal crime to possess MJ do it?
I think Ken's saying the fed gov has no constitutional authority to pass such a law. And he's right.
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