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I have one question. Who will pay for all the lawsuits soon to follow? Guys like John Edwards will be running around in circles trying to find somebody with no teeth due to inhaling meth for years and want somebody to pay. Will the FDA be responsible for legalizing "safe" drugs and what will fall under that category? Who will be allowed to sell it? Will the states, fed control it or private growers, meth labs and crackhouses? Will crackhouses be made to pass monthly inspections by the health department? Will Monsanto create GM weed to keep the bugs away? Will the dept of Ag have control of the fields? It's easy to scream legalize all drugs but implementation is a real bugger.
I'm not screaming "legalize drugs". There is a huge difference between allowing the states to set their own laws/regulations per the US Constitution and getting the federal government out of it (intrastate vs. interstate).
Did you realize that while the drug wars go on that the FDA is granting big Pharma livences to grow marijuanna while simultaneously throwing its own citizens in jail for doing same? We have soliders risking their lives to protect heroine producing poppy fields in Afghanistan. If those are not examples of the overreach and abuse of power by the federal government in something the US Constitution gives it no enumerated powers over then what would you call it?
I'm not screaming "legalize drugs". There is a huge difference between allowing the states to set their own laws/regulations per the US Constitution and getting the federal government out of it (intrastate vs. interstate).
Did you realize that while the drug wars go on that the FDA is granting big Pharma livences to grow marijuanna while simultaneously throwing its own citizens in jail for doing same? We have soliders risking their lives to protect heroine producing poppy fields in Afghanistan. If those are not examples of the overreach and abuse of power by the federal government in something the US Constitution gives it no enumerated powers over then what would you call it?
Just more hypocrisy by our Federal Government because it is against federal law for physicians to prescribe marijuana.
I'm not screaming "legalize drugs". There is a huge difference between allowing the states to set their own laws/regulations per the US Constitution and getting the federal government out of it (intrastate vs. interstate).
Did you realize that while the drug wars go on that the FDA is granting big Pharma livences to grow marijuanna while simultaneously throwing its own citizens in jail for doing same? We have soliders risking their lives to protect heroine producing poppy fields in Afghanistan. If those are not examples of the overreach and abuse of power by the federal government in something the US Constitution gives it no enumerated powers over then what would you call it?
We're in Afghan now for the rare earth elements IMO. Green war so to say. Like I said getting the federal government out of it is a lot harder than saying "end the war on drugs". I see no push by anybody to even get a serious debate about legalizing anything so it's almost a moot point. Then of course we have the commerce clause you mentioned. Since some states aren't conducive to growing certain herbs of course the fed would stick they're noses into the fray. Hell they are telling farmers in Montana they have to get a CDL because eventually their products leave the state even though they're not behind the wheel. Talk about a beaurocratic mess. All it would do is create hundreds more agencies upon agencies to legalize the stuff. Just get it on the down low like everybody else does.
How come the small government deficit cutting Tea Party Republicans don't end the $45 billion War on Drugs?
I always get a laugh about the "small government deficit cutting Tea Party Republicans". It's so phony.
The Tea Partier are only *****ed off because they are not in charge of everything and everyone. They are as much for small government as Al Capone was for law and order.
Legalize all drugs, close the DEA, and put the drug cartels out of business. Too many on the supposed "good guys side" are profiting from it the way it is now though. Our society is controlled by criminals in high places.
Legalization leads to people committing crimes to buy the drugs legally which endangers the general public. Do you think most drug addicts have jobs and paychecks to purchase drugs?
It would appear that the majority of users do actually have jobs and paychecks, according to the US Dept of Labor:
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75 percent of the nation’s current illegal drug users are employed—and 3.1 percent say they have actually used illegal drugs before or during work hours.
79 percent of the nation’s heavy alcohol users are employed—and 7.1 percent say they have actually consumed alcohol during the workday.
Working Partners for an Alcohol- and Drug-Free Workplace (http://www.dol.gov/asp/programs/drugs/workingpartners/DFWW-Introduction.asp - broken link)
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