Aside from the fact that I was kidding, y’all pursue happiness as you choose, and I’ll do the same.
And let’s keep in mind that even if it gets legalized or decriminalized at the state level, that is always for “personal use”, and no state allows large scale marijuana farming. This is a big problem where I live, as just up in the hills behind my house where I often ride my mountain bike, there are big busts every summer of people setting up illegal pot farms. Ditto for people who do the same in houses-- large scale hydroponic farming, oftne in average, middle class neighborhoods.
Still doesn’t mean it’s legal, and your claim that a drug test is a violation of human rights has been debunked by the Supremes every time it’s come up. You want to smoke weed, do so, but understand that you are probably breaking a federal law doing so, and don’t whine like a bitch when you get busted.
FTR: I support legalizing, and will cheer the day. I don’t smoke myself, and I support the right of a company to drug test, though legalizing marijuana may require a change to the way that’s done, of course.
[A decision by the Boulder County Land Use Department to approve the transformation of a one-time organic egg farm north of Longmont into a marijuana growing operation will stand, county commissioners decided Tuesday morning.
The 67-acre Szymanski Farms, 10437 Yellowstone Road, is now one of two plots of agricultural land in rural Boulder County that have been given the green light to grow and process medical marijuana.](Boulder County commissioners let approval of Longmont-area pot farm stand – Boulder Daily Camera)
Not for long now that the Feds have the published address of a major drug operation.
Cannabis is indisputably much safer than alcohol, if you have the right to use alcohol, I have the human right to use a safer alternative to alcohol. Obviously. It’s called basic fairness.
Well, like many things, there are two schools of thought, and people freely jump from one to the other depending on the subject and their personal prejudices;
1> Everything is naturally legal until the goverment can show due cause to outlaw it.
2> Everything should be outlawed unless it is proven safe, isn’t opposed by the dominant religion and is non-controversial.
I’m a big supporter of #1. That means I generally reject the “that’s not a ‘human right’” argument about most anything as being far too full of #2 (pun intended).
QFT. I wish that the powers that be would pull their heads out of their asses on this one. If pot were legal I might never drink again.
There seems to be a pattern for such ballot measures to lose support as the election gets closer.
Read more: http://www.gazette.com/articles/legalize-144808-marijuana-amendment.html#ixzz28fRMxugV
Federal agents don’t enforce state traffic laws.
I don’t claim that I have a “human right” to drink, or a “right” to at all. There’s nothing in the Constitution or the UN Declaration of Human Rights about a right to alcohol. I am allowed to drink because I live in a democratic society where the people, via Congress, have decided to allow the states to set their own policies on the matter.
In much the same way, the people have decided through Congress that marijuana policy should not be in state hands. When the people change their minds and insist that Congress change that law, then so it will be.
What are the Feds going to do?
That’s what it comes down to. How big is the DEA and how much do they want to spend on enforcing Federal laws the states have no interest in? How much could they spend? If a state were dead-set on non-cooperation, if the elected officials of that state were convinced that being seen as helping the DEA prosecute for marijuana offenses was career suicide, how much could the DEA afford to do in that state?
States always lose nullification crises. We saw that in the 1960s, over Civil Rights, and in the 1860s, over Civil Rights. Therefore, it is up to the Federal government to not make this a nullification crisis.
While the CFR covers traffic laws on federal property, they are mirrored from state laws. In a case where a violation of state law is applicable and NO comparable law is in the CFR, the Assimilative Crimes Act permits such federal officer, usually Park Ranger’s, etc., as traveling through a national park, etc. to charge a driver under that state’s law it occurred in.
In Ohio, under state law, under 100 grams is a Minor Misdemeanor and DEcriminalized.
However, Municipalities under Home Rule authority can pre-empt state law and criminalize it, up to a Misdemeanor of the 1st degree. However, as we all know, Municipalites can not enact felonies.
Will marijuana be decriminalized this fall?
PUT. THE. BONG. DOWN.
No. Too much entrenched money and power supports criminalization. Gonna take some work to get rid of it. And time. Maybe in four years, at the earliest.
Only from Chik-Fil-A.
This is the right answer. The fed govt would have to bulk up it’s enforcement capabilities in order to combat a legalization movement.
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Im unclear as to why you think the 1860’s was a time of nullification failure. The Northern States were nullifying the fugitive slave law by refusing the enforce it. This was among the grievances for the seceding states, but the anti-slavery view won out in the end. I see this as a victory for nullification not a failure.
Also, many states refused to enforce alcohol prohibition. The federal government eventually succumbed to the force of nullification in this instance as well.
What congressional power enumerated in the constitution deals with marijuana law? How about alcohol? Why was an amendment needed to criminalize alcohol production but not marijuana?
South Carolina tried to nullify the parts that said you had to remain in the Union, and that certainly failed. Point being, the Federal government always wins when push comes to shove, so, in order to preserve its own political best interests, the Federal government had better make sure it never comes to shove.
I’m with you here but, honestly, I think there are a lot of people interested in keeping current profit margins. They can grease a lot of palms to keep it that way.