Bipartisan Drug Bill

Soulshiner
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24 Jun 2011 16:11 #21 by Soulshiner

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Hopefully this gets to a vote so we can see on the record who's for cutting spending and the size of government (DEA, war on drugs, incarceration, court time...), raising revenues (tax income and creating jobs) and preserving personal liberties and freedoms. It will shine a light on those politicians who spout off patriotic nonsense while voting against everything they claim to stand for. From what I've read, Republicans should be all for legalization, it satisfies all of the tenants of their party.

When you plant ice you're going to harvest wind. - Robert Hunter

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PrintSmith
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24 Jun 2011 16:35 #22 by PrintSmith

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I hope it doesn't get a vote - because I don't want the federal government to weasel its way out of the constitutional showdown that will result when a state legalizes it in violation of the federal law. I want that confrontation between coordinate powers of government. The sooner it gets here the sooner we can start reversing the consolidation of power that has occurred over the last 100 years.

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ScienceChic
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24 Jun 2011 21:41 #23 by ScienceChic

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PrintSmith wrote: Thank you for that compliment LJ - you made my day. :Thank You:

LadyJazzer wrote: As soon as I remove my finger from my throat, I'll say 'you're welcome'....

That made me laugh out loud! Thanks guys! :thumbsup:

LadyJazzer wrote: ...and use leeches for health care...

OT, but oddly enough, leeches have been making a comeback in recent years... http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_update.php?DocID=133 (I briefly worked in a lab that got some in to do experiments on them (they have great nervous systems for manipulation...they really do cause an instinctive reaction of revulsion, especially when they go from 2mm long and 1mm in diameter one month to 10mm long and 6mm in diameter the next with once a week feedings of blood sausage...and looking at them all you can think is that escaping from the tank would be sooo easy for them...ugh).

"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill

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Blazer Bob
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24 Jun 2011 22:06 #24 by Blazer Bob

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"On the Road" Jack Kerouac. I read it a very long time ago. I liked it a lot but the only thing I can remember about it is that they legally bought amphetamines at local drugstores around the country. That probably explains this:"Kerouac often promoted the story about how in April 1951 he wrote the novel in three weeks, typing continuously onto a 120-foot roll of teletype paper"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road

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Pony Soldier
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25 Jun 2011 08:14 #25 by Pony Soldier

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I am thinking of starting a campaign to promote this bill. MJ needs to be legalized and taxed. Our government should be making the money on this stuff instead of the Mexican drug cartels. Imagine the blow this would be to those cartels.

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Something the Dog Said
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25 Jun 2011 10:12 #26 by Something the Dog Said

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PrintSmith wrote: Nor should we hope that Congress takes an action that would preclude a challenge to the federal authority in a court of law. I want one state to legalize marijuana and then sue the federal government when the federal authorities violate their sovereignty. I want a legal decision, preferably one by the Supreme Court, which forever dispels the notion that the federal government's power and authority is limited only by what it determines those limits to be.

Once that is firmly reestablished we can get back to the business of strictly limiting the federal government to its actual authority instead of its self interpreted authority.

The Supreme Court has already made that decision, particularly in regard to marijuana, that Congress may criminalize marijuana, even if the state allows it.

Gonzales v. Raich

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