Posted on 12/17/2014 5:23:46 PM PST by Ken H
Drugs are bad for everyone. Of course harmless drugs already are legal. But it is in everyone’s best interest to keep problem drugs illegal.
I have seen lives destroyed by the stuff. You will never sell me on the idea that they are harmless. They are available because greedy people want your money. They do not care about anything else.
No one is better served by turning the FDA into the FA.
People will lie, steal and murder, too. That does not mean we should get rid of our laws against perjury, theft and murder. “They will do it anyway” is no kind of argument.
Did the "war on drugs" help the person? Save him/her?
druggies in the effign White House
I know it’s all bad, but 75% of the problem is because it’s in the black market.
The people who use the stuff are GOING to do it, regardless of it’s legality. Forcing it into the black market only adds layers to an already bad problem. Not to mention the rights we ALL lose to the government to combat this largely man-made societal problem.
If you commit burglary with a Kalashnikov-derived firearm (or any long gun), you’re doing it wrong.
It speaks well of your inexperience with burglary that you did not know that.
I have a feeling based on my own (non-burglary, non-felony) experience that his one brush with the law turned him off of ever doing that again.
I’d guess that we’re near the point that if the gutless legislators won’t impeach and remove Nazi judges that it’s the responsibility of citizens to organize roving bands of vigilantes to drag fascist judges into the streets and hang them from lampposts.
As an old wizened Missouri lawyer told me once, “There is no law West of the Kaw......”
It didn’t hurt. It sometimes helped in that it made it harder to get the drugs.
Plenty of harmful drugs are legal and available without a prescription! Alcohol and tobacco come to immediate mind!
"Heroin" was a trademark of AG Bayer (as was "Aspirin"). How many drive-by shootings were there on a typical day in the 19th century, when drugs like heroin were purchased legally from drug stores? How many old ladies were mugged on a typical day?
(BTW fret not that Walgreen's will be selling heroin any time soon. Since both sides in this game derive great benefit from the game, the chance that anything about it is going to change is about as close to zero as you can possibly get.)
bookmark (heroin bottle)
“...Prairie Village Police Officer Chad Loughman pulled Howard over.”
So all this started with moving violation or broken light in addition to a Missouri plate. I suspect it has less to do with the war on drugs and more to do with the large number of home burglaries in Prairie Village by occupants of cars with Missouri plates. They have a bit of a reputation for stopping cars and trucks with Missouri Plates.
Ok, lets see if I have this. One state can let you off, but another state where you were never on trial can secretly convict you without a trial or charges?
Is this part of “hope and change”? Or the liberal version of “states rights”?
What does that have to do with ending the War on Drugs and letting states regulate intrastate intoxicants?
Do you want a federal War on Murder, or do you want that to remain a state issue?
When it involves more than one state it becomes federal. When the drugs are smuggled in from other countries it is federal. Also the overall list of what is legal and not legal is largely federal. I have no problem with that.
Some murder is federal. It depends. But murder is not commerce, at least not usually.
I am unchangeable on this. I have seen too much.
When it crosses state lines against the laws of a state, it is a federal issue. That's different from imposing intrastate prohibitions in violation of the Tenth Amendment.
When the drugs are smuggled in from other countries it is federal.
Yes, and Congress may deal with that under its power to regulate foreign commerce.
Also the overall list of what is legal and not legal is largely federal. I have no problem with that.
So you support the New Deal Commerce Clause at the expense of the Tenth Amendment.
Some murder is federal. It depends. But murder is not commerce, at least not usually.
All Congress has to do is 'find' that a crime has a substantial effect on interstate commerce. They did it with the Violence Against Women Act, guns and with hate crime legislation.
You have absolutely made my day.
The article describes a man who is going to prison for keeping and bearing arms. It sickens me that there are so many on this forum who don't see where all this is heading.
“Prairie Village KS cops are very overbearing”
And just where AREN’T They?
And since those who transport these plastic bags usually use an automobile to do it, the act of being in an automobile is also suspicious...
Good point
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