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According to Pew and Gallop, 60% favor legalization of marijuana, including 40% of Republicans.
Legalization would remove the funding source for a good percentage of the criminal activity in the nation.
Taxing it would bring in needed funding for infrastructure, etc. and reduce the cost of courts and incarcerations.
If Trump signed the EO tomorrow, I predict his poll numbers would shoot up.
We'd all get high and forget about that Russian nonsense, which is hard enough to figure out when you're straight let alone stoned.
Your last line made me literally LOL. Usually I'm for letting the states decide, but in this case it should be legalized across the board and let's be done with it.
Decriminalize ALL drugs. Punish people for crimes. It is NOT a crime to choose to ingest, inhale or inject whatever one chooses, just because someone else says they "don't like" whatever an individual chooses.
Decriminalizing rather than legalizing allows people to choose whatever they want without having to PAY others for permission via some psycho takings SIN tax simply because others "don't like" what they are doing.
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Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest
Decriminalize all drugs.
Agreed. Punish people when they actually inflict harm on others not themselves. If it is legal to buy rat poison and then eat it, why should it be illegal to buy any other chemicals and then consume them? Is it possible to be truly free if you are being told what you can and can't do with your own body?
Added bonus, it puts the murderous cartels out of business.
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They represent the very worst this country has to offer the world. I also blame Democrats for nominating Clinton, which in turn has given us the worst President in U.S. history.
There was no winning. He is turning out to be just as bad as the globalists. I mean, he had the opportunity to retain American sovereignty through the development of an infrastructure plan that eliminates or significantly lowers our dependence on foreign entities, so we can retain our Constitutional rights.
Obviously, he's failing at this. It is the single most important thing that he could do, but instead of creating an R&D contract to determine the best route to take, he's merely repairing our existing, completely unsustainable infrastructure.
The American lifestyle is NOT sustainable. It is going to lead to the centralization of banking functions into one global entity after a massive liquidity crises due to the weight of derivatives, and then the systematic eradication of our rights.
We should have just elected Clinton so she expedite the globalist agenda. It wouldn't make any difference at this point. We're going to the same place.
It's not without irony that Sean Spicer mentioned "State's Rights" numerous times during the same briefing in which he provided notice of the selective recreational marijuana crackdown. But, I suppose given that it has been irrationally labeled as a Schedule 1 drug, it's time for citizens to actually perform their civic duty and tell the folks in Congress to do their job and change the law on the matter.
National legalization. After all, drugs were "illegalized" nationally.
Some states would undoubtedly restrict marijuana (an/or other recreational drugs) more than others, just as state regulations about alcohol vary. That's OK. But it is the feds driving the War on (some) Drugs, and that's the root of the problems we see.
It's not without irony that Sean Spicer mentioned "State's Rights" numerous times during the same briefing in which he provided notice of the selective recreational marijuana crackdown. But, I suppose given that it has been irrationally labeled as a Schedule 1 drug, it's time for citizens to actually perform their civic duty and tell the folks in Congress to do their job and change the law on the matter.
Odds of the congressional "grandpa brigade" doing so are pretty slim at the moment.
This seems rather arbitrary. The only thing that I can think of is that his logic is that marijuana is part of the border problem, and by cracking down on marijuana use, he is addressing the border problem. But in states that have legalized marijuana use, for recreation or for medicinal use, isn't the marijuana carefully tracked? They must track where it is grown/harvested, and maintain quality control records. Which would in the end help put an end to illegal marijuana trade, wouldn't it?
Majority of Americans don't want the wall either, but he is going ahead with it. Majority of Americans do not want ACA repealed, but he is going ahead with it. Is he doing anything majority of Americans actually do want?
Isn't it a little hypocritical to give bathroom decisions to the states, but enforce federal law over state's law in the case of weed?
There is no federal bathroom law.
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