Trump administration will enforce federal marijuana laws in states where recreational pot is legal. (Mexican, Clinton)
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It is already banned nationally. Obama admin refused to enforce the law, and so far Gump admin has also refused to enforce the laws to (contrary to what they promised).
Agree. Who cares. It seems Trump leaves a lot of moral issues, recreational issues to the states. I'm thinking it signals that he could care less either way. Whatevah
2. Why did Spicer say medical marijuana is ok but recreational isn't? The federal government says marijuana has no medical uses (which I disagree with). So wouldn't accepting medical marijuana be selectively enforcing federal law as well?
3. This is will make Republicans and Trump even more unpopular with the millennial generation.
4. Republicans can forget about winning statewide elections in swing state Colorado and probably swing state Nevada (goodbye Dean Heller) as well for the foreseeable future if they go through with this.
He couched it as a big difference bewteeen Medical and Regular Pot. Many of the people who support this idea don't understand they're the exact same thing!
Particularly when it comes to personal recreational marijuana use.
Thanks for posting the poll. It's interesting how many are in favor of at least decriminalizing recreational use at the national level, which definitely indicates that the notion enjoys widespread bi-partisan support.
At the very least, it should be up to the states to decide. Republicans usually take that stance. It's weird that the administration is moving the other way on this. Sessions?
Trump administration will enforce federal marijuana laws in states where recreational pot is legal.
This should make for interesting court cases. The limit of federal authority is regulating interstate commerce. If pot is grown in Colorado, sold in Colorado and smoked in Colorado, then that ain't interstate commerce. It's Colorado's business 100%.
That's by no means a certainty. The SCOTUS, POTUS and Congress have taken the very tiny power intended by the interstate commerce clause in the Constitution and expanded it to give them power over absolutely everything. Somehow they always manage to tie it to interstate commerce. Congress makes the law and the Supreme Court finds a way to make it fit. I'll be very curious to if and how they pull this one off.
This should make for interesting court cases. The limit of federal authority is regulating interstate commerce. If pot is grown in Colorado, sold in Colorado and smoked in Colorado, then that ain't interstate commerce. It's Colorado's business 100%.
That's by no means a certainty. The SCOTUS, POTUS and Congress have taken the very tiny power intended by the interstate commerce clause in the Constitution and expanded it to give them power over absolutely everything. Somehow they always manage to tie it to interstate commerce. Congress makes the law and the Supreme Court finds a way to make it fit. I'll be very curious to if and how they pull this one off.
The parallel concern making it appropriate to include marijuana grown for home consumption in the CSA is the likelihood that the high demand in the interstate market will draw such marijuana into that market. While the diversion of homegrown wheat tended to frustrate the federal interest in stabilizing prices by regulating the volume of commercial transactions in the interstate market, the diversion of homegrown marijuana tends to frustrate the federal interest in eliminating commercial transactions in the interstate market in their entirety. In both cases, the regulation is squarely within Congress' commerce power because production of the commodity meant for home consumption, be it wheat or marijuana, has a substantial effect on supply and demand in the national market for that commodity.
And that case was about a guy growing pot in his house for his own consumption. . .
This should make for interesting court cases. The limit of federal authority is regulating interstate commerce. If pot is grown in Colorado, sold in Colorado and smoked in Colorado, then that ain't interstate commerce. It's Colorado's business 100%.
That's by no means a certainty. The SCOTUS, POTUS and Congress have taken the very tiny power intended by the interstate commerce clause in the Constitution and expanded it to give them power over absolutely everything. Somehow they always manage to tie it to interstate commerce. Congress makes the law and the Supreme Court finds a way to make it fit. I'll be very curious to if and how they pull this one off.
Following this you could say the same about any drug. Are you sure you want that?
What I'd like to see happen is to have MJ reclassified as a schedule 2 narcotic to allow studies and legal prescribing by doctors as it does have medicinal purposes.
Following this you could say the same about any drug. Are you sure you want that?
What I'd like to see happen is to have MJ reclassified as a schedule 2 narcotic to allow studies and legal prescribing by doctors as it does have medicinal purposes.
My bigger picture view is pretty simple: The governments in the United States (be it federal, state or local) need to decide whether it is the duty of government to protect people from themselves.
If the answer is, "Yes!" then we need to reinstitute Prohibition, ban tobacco and outlaw every recreational human activity that is inherently dangerous to the health and well-being of participants. Skydiving, rock/mountain climbing, competitive sports ... you have to look at all of these things and countless others. If anyone ever gets hurt, you then by this ideology you need to at least strongly consider banning it.
If the answer is, "No!" then if a junkie wants to wreck himself or herself on heroine and isn't hurting or endangering anyone else, then they get to do that.
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