An Aug. 3 Quinnipiac University poll indicated that 94 percent of Americans support adult use of marijuana for medical purposes, if prescribed by a doctor. This poll indicated that Republican support for medical marijuana is at 90 percent. An Oct. 25Gallup Poll shows that a majority of Republicans support fully legalizing marijuana. At a time when Republicans are worried about following the will of the voters they’ll face this November, they might want to note those lopsided numbers.
29 wrongs (+ DC) don’t make a right.
The federal government should not be legislating marijuana.
The drug war has caused far more harm than good.
This could be how it ends up:
Medicinal marijuana and autonomous vehicles for some.
OR
Recreational marijuana and autonomous vehicles for all.
OK. Some say that you can obey some Federal laws but ignore others. Some you must obey. Don’t like drug laws and immigration laws, well just ignore them. Horrified by abortion. Too bad. Those laws are strictly enforced. Sorry but a country that behaves in that manner is divided among itself. Some “Federalists” imagined that this issue was definitively settled in 1865. There will be barricades and dissolution unless Congress changes the laws or the current laws are enforced.
I heard Ben Shapiro speak on this recently and he absolutely parroted my position on it:
1. Dope is stupid and those that take it need to grow up.
2. And it should be none of the government’s business.
what the hell is the point
Sessions is just enforcing (selectively) federal law. If the states want to do something different, they should work to have the law changed.
Don’t blame Sessions for following the law. Just write a new law if there is that much support. That is the truly Constitutional way to proceed.
Now let’s talk about how the states unconstitutionally infringe on the 2nd Amendment.
Go to Congress and change the law. Stop writing, do something, stop taking the lazy way out, if it’s that important to you.
I support sessions here 100%!! Stop dope!!
Where have these “freedom lovers” been the past 15 years when virtually every one of our Constitutionally protected rights have been taken away and liberty on life support?
Cowering in fear like the wussies they are.
But the prospect of abundant and legal weed causes them to find religion all of a sudden.
Everybody that push for legalized weed is from the swamp. And why is that?
Restart? When did the Federal government repeal the laws against Marijuana?
Don't you mean it's a shame that idiot states allowed people to start up these illegal businesses without changing federal law and they just assumed nobody was going to make them obey the federal law?
Put the blame where it belongs; on people who did not change the law before they started down this path.
It’s the laws regulating marijuana, and the reasons for them, that are in conflict, not Sessions.
And by doing his job, Sessions will make Congress do its job and hopefully they’ll satisfactorily address these longstanding conflicts.
I imagine the pressure is building to make this happen, too, and not just from the medical and recreational users and abusers.
It’s quite a remarkable plant and everyday I get more and more email offers and opportunities to get in before the boom(!) and become one of the next “marijuana millionaires!”
I’m sure there will be a lot of them, too, once the laws change.
The last thing we need in this country is more losers high on anything, endangering the lives of innocent people.
Maybe instead of picking on weed, Session should grow a spine and start some indictments in the Russian scandal - the real Russian scandal that is.
Slippery slope like gay marriage. It starts with turning away from God.
Outstanding opinion piece!
Thanks for posting this.