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Tactically, it’s a good move for us. I know more than one person who is genuinely conservative, as in loving the Constitution, who distrust drug warriors just as much as any gun grabber. With good reason. Anyone who thinks that cannabis should be an issue the federal government has anything to do with is merely a nanny-stater socialist who happens to also have some social conservative views.

“Tactically, it’s a good move for us. I know more than one person who is genuinely conservative, as in loving the Constitution, who distrust drug warriors just as much as any gun grabber. With good reason.”

ReasonS, plural. One of which is that if you taking medical marijuana, or if you are caught smoking the stuff (no matter how legal in your state), you have just disqualified yourself from ever being able to own a firearm (unless, of course, you lie on the 4473, which itself is a disqualifier if your’re caught).

I once inhaled a puff, when very drunk (and, not being a smoker, I burned the crap out of my throat and coughed it right up), but I’m in favor of legalization...so long as anyone who smokes it is held fully responsible for all of the consequences thereof. It isn’t government’s place to control this, and when combined with other laws and regulations it is a key piece of the plan to effectively make all of us mere citizens into serfs.