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Congressmen seek to legalize pot at federal level
If passed, it would mean that states would be free to set their own marijuana policies without the threat of federal intervention, which is currently the greatest hurdle to the pot industries in Colorado and Washington, which legalized the adult recreational use of marijuana by wide margins in November.
“Americans have increasingly come to the conclusion that the drug war is a failed policy,” Polis said. “Americans are sick and tired of the cost of the war on drugs, whether we’re talking about the financial costs in a time of deficits or whether we’re talking about the human costs.”
Polis said there has been an “enormous evolution” in public sentiment toward marijuana and that legalization is “an idea whose time has come.”
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I’ve got a novel idea: how about you guys draft a budget instead. Whaddayasay?
crrr6 on February 6, 2013 at 9:06 PM
And you thought trying to get service from the IRS, Social Security, or Veterans agencies was difficult now. Imagine them staffed with stoners.
RoadRunner on February 6, 2013 at 9:11 PM
We are really accelerating toward recreating the fall of Rome, aren’t we?
Count to 10 on February 6, 2013 at 9:22 PM
How about mandatory drug testing for Congressmen?
steebo77 on February 6, 2013 at 9:25 PM
I never thought I would live through something like this.
I thought it would be more like the zombie apocalypse after a nuclear holocaust. It never occurred to me that Americans would destroy the country on their own.
vityas on February 6, 2013 at 9:49 PM
There actually already exists a law for this. Here’s the text:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
thirteen28 on February 6, 2013 at 10:14 PM
Heard a figure tossed around for a proposed Federal Tax if they do this-$50 per ounce.
I’m not familiar with the quantum physics of the marihuana market, so wouldn’t know if that is reasonable. But given what assorted taxation authorities do with adult beverages and tomacco what difference does it make?
The ideal solution? Let the Fed do this, but only to the extent that people can (try) to grow it. You’ll weed out (sorry) a large part of the gene pool right there.
Del Dolemonte on February 6, 2013 at 10:57 PM
Only if you believe we were heading that way before the prohibition on drugs which began in the 70s. Or the war on drano, sudafed etc in the last decade. At the rate we’re going everything will be banned because somehow something will be misused and we just have to do something. Oh wait, the bane de jour is assault weapons. What next? just ask the British, having banned guns, they since started banning kitchen knives and when that didn’t work, they’ve descended to banning self defense! What a law abiding Brit is supposed to do when home invaders invade is call 911 if possible then submit while praying they’ll be spared but under no condition are they allowed to defend themselves. This is what happens whenever a society thinks they can control crime by controlling “pathways to crime. To whit, once upon a time a drunk would get picked of the street to sleep it off in jail, now you get charged for the mere act of drinking. And so it goes because of the imperative to do something. So here we all sit, guilty of committing crimes daily if we followed the letter of the laws. sad for US, sad for liberty and sad for freedom because we no longer have any of it.
AH_C on February 6, 2013 at 11:07 PM
Imagine?? They already are.
Dollayo on February 6, 2013 at 11:18 PM
We may need pot to get through four more years of Jugears.
SagebrushPuppet on February 6, 2013 at 11:35 PM
Heh… don’t for a second think that they aren’t now. Where ya been?
rhombus on February 7, 2013 at 6:03 AM
I really don’t understand why no one fixates upon this in Conservative media & circles.
It’s the whole fracking point. The Fed has been doing all sorts of UnConstitutional things & that is the meme we need to go with.
It is so simple it’s ridiculous.
But no. Let’s make $hit more complicated with thousands out new laws!
Badger40 on February 7, 2013 at 7:50 AM
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Badger40 on February 7, 2013 at 7:51 AM
Or when you go to renew your license plate.
And this is all without going into the fun times that private businesses are going to have trying to hire new employees. A street minister passed on a complaint from one who had to go through 100 people before he found one who could pass a drug test, and that was several years ago.
Seriously, anyone who owns a business or is friends with someone who does, imagine a 100-to-1 or worse ratio of clean new hires, and that’s before you even get to interviewing. Imagine discrimination suits from potheads.
Have we all lost our bloody minds?
MelonCollie on February 7, 2013 at 9:02 AM