Thread: Here's what's driving lawmakers to legalize recreational pot in 17 more states

Originally Posted by Judy

The federal government has no authority to do that. The people of these states have spoken, many through referendum, others through their state legislatures.

"Parents opposed to Pot".

Message to parents, we're not your children's baby-sitters. If you don't want your children using drugs, then you stop them, they're your kids, they're your responsibility. It's your obligation to know where they are, who they are with and what they are doing. GROW UP and take responsibility for your children.

You're absolutely wrong on this. AG Sessions has complete authority to send the DEA in to close down these distribution centers and growers if he so desires. Sessions is a law and order kind of guy. I'm shocked that you seem to have the same mindset as Obama, Holder, and Lynch on the enforcement of our country's laws (pick & choose). Well, I've never had that impression of Sessions. Furthermore, I personally watched him say in his confirmation hearing for DOJ that he would faithfully enforce ALL our laws.

Isn't not enforcing our laws something we were constantly attacking the Obama administration on?

Message to parents, we're not your children's baby-sitters. If you don't want your children using drugs, then you stop them, they're your kids, they're your responsibility. It's your obligation to know where they are, who they are with and what they are doing. GROW UP and take responsibility for your children.

That comment doesn't even deserve a response.

---Quote (Originally by JohnDoe2)---
Marijuana grown, sold and used within a state should be under state laws. (PERSONAL OPINION)

The feds should only be involved if it crosses international borders or state lines.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

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[FONT="]Marijuana grown, sold and used within a state [/FONT][FONT="]should be[/FONT][FONT="] under state laws. (PERSONAL OPINION)[/FONT]

[FONT="]The feds [/FONT][FONT="]should[/FONT] only be involved if it crosses international borders or state lines.

EXACTLY!!!

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

---Quote (Originally by JohnDoe2)---
Marijuana grown, sold and used within a state should be under state laws. (PERSONAL OPINION)

The feds should only be involved if it crosses international borders or state lines.

Don't really understand why you posted this again. I was aware that it was only an opinion. My response with fact was not a personal attack of your opinion or your right to make it.

Not so. The DEA operates under the Department of Justice and can operate anywhere in the country. If AG Sessions directs them to bust every distribution center and grower in Colorado, so be it.

Originally Posted by MW

You're absolutely wrong on this. AG Sessions has complete authority to send the DEA in to close down these distribution centers and growers if he so desires. Sessions is a law and order kind of guy. I'm shocked that you seem to have the same mindset as Obama, Holder, and Lynch on the enforcement of our country's laws (pick & choose). Well, I've never had that impression of Sessions. Furthermore, I personally watched him say in his confirmation hearing for DOJ that he would faithfully enforce ALL our laws.

Isn't not enforcing our laws something we were constantly attacking the Obama administration on?



That comment doesn't even deserve a response.

The Constitution EMPOWERED DIRECTLY the federal government to control immigration. Our immigration laws are DIRECT CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS of the federal government. You want to empower the government through court rulings, the very judicial activism and legislating from the bench that we all OPPOSE.

My comment about the parents deserved more than a response, it deserves a follow-up and here it is:

“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”

― Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7839...to-be-the-most

Wake Up, People. You're being PUNKED by drug cartels who are the only ones besides the politicians on their payroll who gain or profit a thing from the failed, futile, folly of the War on Drugs.

Originally Posted by Judy

The Constitution EMPOWERED DIRECTLY the federal government to control immigration. Our immigration laws are DIRECT CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS of the federal government. You want to empower the government through court rulings, the very judicial activism and legislating from the bench that we all OPPOSE.

My comment about the parents deserved more than a response, it deserves a follow-up and here it is:


http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7839...to-be-the-most

Wake Up, People. You're being PUNKED by drug cartels who are the only ones besides the politicians on their payroll who gain or profit a thing from the failed, futile, folly of the War on Drugs.

You're just ranting nonsense now. The Hitler comment is way over the top.

States' rights for bathrooms, but not for marijuana

@ http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/24/politi...oms/index.html




Trump revokes transgender bathroom protections, sending issue to states



States’ rights for bathrooms, but not for marijuana

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

States' rights for bathrooms, but not for marijuana

@ http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/24/politi...oms/index.html




Trump revokes transgender bathroom protections, sending issue to states



States’ rights for bathrooms, but not for marijuana

I was trying to figure out a good way to draw that parallel and whoever did these is spot on!! Thank you for posting them JD2.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

States' rights for bathrooms, but not for marijuana

@ http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/24/politi...oms/index.html




Trump revokes transgender bathroom protections, sending issue to states



States’ rights for bathrooms, but not for marijuana

Are you implying this has anything to do with the discussion we've been having on a states right to override the federal government and legalize a schedule 1 drug?

If so, I don't see the connection. Allowing boys to use girls locker rooms, showers, and bathrooms is not established law.

No, MW, you don't see the connection because you don't seem to understand the issues pertaining to either subject very well. You're all tied up and blinded with authoritarianism disease.