Posted on 05/13/2015 11:22:41 AM PDT by Olog-hai
MPs from the Green Party and Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have joined forces to say that cannabis should be regulated and legalized.
Economic policy spokespeople Joachim Pfeiffer of the CDU and Dieter Janecek of the Greens told broadcaster ARD that they thought it no longer made sense to criminalize possession of or trading in the drug.
“Every year we spend between one and two billion euros to punish consumers, although real organized crime should be the focus of our efforts,” they wrote in a position paper.
The pair believe that a state-regulated cannabis market would bring in between one and two billion euros of tax revenue annually, based on the examples of countries that have successfully liberalized their rules. …
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The Constitution gives the federal government no general authority over robbery; any federal statutes regarding robbery have a specifically federal component, including robberies that in some aspect cross state lines - where the feds have authority precisely from the Constitution's Interstate Commerce Clause. And it's that same clause from which the feds claim the authority to ban drugs ... using an FDR ruling that justified the New Deal, and all subsequent growth of the liberal welfare state, by claiming that the feds had authority over anything that "substantially affected" interstate commerce.
I’ve seen lots of people who tried cocaine and heroin just one time and, by their behavior, were instant addicts.
I've known many alcoholics who say they were hooked from their very first drink. And I tried cocaine once and didn't become addicted.
Those are foul drugs.
One is wisest not to mess with any drug - but a government of limited powers leaves that decision to each individual adult.
Israel's police chief is obviously a pinko hippie anarchist doper.
That’s using the French Parliament definition of right and left wings. Different context applies in the USA, possibly.
It’s laughable to me that anybody could call himself a conservative who believes that any American belongs in prison for violating contraband law.
The hypocrisy is astounding, and the arguments used by the right to justify such authoritarian nonsense are identical to the arguments used by the left to justify their particular flavor of authoritarian nonsense.
To accept the legitimacy of one is to accept the legitimacy of the other, and using such reasoning, there is no practical limit to the power of the state. None.
Thank you, for having a brain. This thing called “conservatism” has been polluted by imposters who are as brain dead as the thugs on the left.
Have you seen The Culture High? The Culture High is not merely some movie about pot, but a documentary that presents how this drug’s illegality has affected us as a society.
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