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Topics => Judiciary, Crime, & Courts => Topic started by: trapeze on April 23, 2012, 12:48:29 AM

Title: When State Law & Federal Law Collide...Think This Is About Immigration? Nope.
Post by: trapeze on April 23, 2012, 12:48:29 AM: LINK (http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/04/marijuana/100282/)

No, this time it is about legalizing marijuana for recreational use. Yep, you knew damn good and well that legalizing pot for medicinal use was the camel's nose under the tent and you were right. Now the same people (Liberal Democrats plus Ron Paul supporters) are back with ballot initiatives that are sure to stir things up.

This is on the ballot in Colorado and Washington and maybe a few other places I am unaware of. The above link is for a photo essay in The Atlantic and covers pot related stories from all over.

Still, it is interesting to me because of the inconsistency of the left regarding the defiance of the federal government. The left is pretty much in lockstep that places like Arizona have absolutely no right whatsoever defying the feds about immigration law. But these very same people are behind these state ballot initiatives to legalize marijuana for recreational use.

Pretty funny how that works, eh?
Title: Re: When State Law & Federal Law Collide...Think This Is About Immigration? Nope.
Post by: Pandora on April 23, 2012, 12:54:34 AM: Funny smack 'em or funny haha?

The Left believes in whatever works; that's the only operating principle.
Title: Re: When State Law & Federal Law Collide...Think This Is About Immigration? Nope.
Post by: charlesoakwood on April 23, 2012, 12:59:41 AM: Marijuana is a gateway drug today. I'm not sure that if it were disassociated from
"that culture" that it would still be so. I don't know what's really physically bad
about it since they have lied about it so long and we know that test results and
surveys can be skewed. I do think it can make you stupid and don't know if it's
possible to recover. I do believe that the "war on drugs" isn't working and has
caused the deaths and ruined the lives of innocent people. I do believe if one is
mature enough to understand the consequences of his actions it's none of the
governments damn business whether one smokes or not.
Title: Re: When State Law & Federal Law Collide...Think This Is About Immigration? Nope.
Post by: charlesoakwood on April 23, 2012, 01:00:46 AM: Quote from: Pandora on April 23, 2012, 12:54:34 AM
Funny smack 'em or funny haha?

The Left believes in whatever works; that's the only operating principle.

Hypocrisy is just another tool to get what they want.
Title: Re: When State Law & Federal Law Collide...Think This Is About Immigration? Nope.
Post by: Libertas on April 23, 2012, 07:10:04 AM: I'm all for smacking 'em! But that's usually my first inclination regarding LeftBots!

::asskicking::

::whoohoo::
Title: Re: When State Law & Federal Law Collide...Think This Is About Immigration? Nope.
Post by: radioman on April 23, 2012, 07:30:43 AM: Well, if MJ gets legalized, the FDA will become a giant on steroids for all of it's new regulations that it gets to invent.
Title: Re: When State Law & Federal Law Collide...Think This Is About Immigration? Nope.
Post by: Pandora on April 23, 2012, 11:19:19 AM: Quote from: radioman on April 23, 2012, 07:30:43 AM
Well, if MJ gets legalized, the FDA will become a giant on steroids for all of it's new regulations that it gets to invent.

Yah; that's the ticket. Just what we need, another big fat tentacle from Leviathan.