Reps. Paul, Frank to Unveil Bill to Decriminalize Marijuana
In an unlikely alliance, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) and Barney Frank (D-MA) plan to introduce a bill on Thursday that would end the federal prohibition on marijuana.At least it's co-sponsored by Ron Paul - which makes sense, from a libertarian/wookie suit standpoint. There is simply no reason to keep marijuana on the "illegal" list when it's significantly less hazardous than alcohol. Personally, I'd love to see all drugs legalized, with the same penalties for impaired operation of motor vehicles/public intoxication/etc. and let Darwin sort it out, but that's not going to happen, at least not in my lifetime.
The bill by the conservative Paul and liberal Frank would allow states to determine their own marijuana laws —including medical marijuana laws - without federal interference.
We can at least start by decriminalizing pot and letting the wastoids blaze up without fear of going to jail...
That is all.
Thanks to Brad_in_MA for the tip and the title!
11 comments:
Go ahead, smoke your doobie, hippie! Get all hopped up on goof-balls. Think of all the money you'll save not buying soap when you go in for the full cultural immersion.
I gotta admit, I agree with you Jay.
10 years ago I wouldn't have....but you're right, the War on Drugs is a dismal failure. May as well legalize, regulate, and tax the living sh*t out of it...
I'm not feeling tooo clean after seeing the words "bedfellows" and "Bawney Fwank" in one post......
Part of (most?) Rep Frank's reason for co-sponsoring this is to find out how serious all of the small-government republicans are ... my guess is 'not very'.
And Dragon wins the internets today!
"There is simply no reason to keep marijuana on the 'illegal' list when it's significantly less hazardous than alcohol"
And if you disagree...well, that's fine too, since it's still illegal in most states, and that's not likely to change.
Federalism works, folks. It'd be real nice if more of us living in this country supposedly built on it actually believed in practicing it.
As I said to you in the tactical Mini-van.
If we could buy Heroin at every corner store it would cause a LOT of problems in society...
...Still I can't imagine those problems would be WORSE than the horrors that are the "War on Drugs"
Getting the Feds to un-stick their nose from States' business... sounds like a pipe dream.
WV: purbro. How good is that weed? It's purbro.
I'm not necessarily for the decriminalization of drugs, but I am against the federal government's intrusion into matters that are best (and constitutionally) left to the states.
No way the Cartels are gonna lose their profit margin. They've plenty of money to buy off as many pols as needed to keep the stuff illegal.
Cynic? Me? Yah.
Agree that the gene pool would improve with legal drugs thinning the herd. After all, ever seen an old meth head?
Didn't Barney have a boyfriend who was arrested for growing his own MJ?
Sorry, but I'm a constituent of the SoB, and I have great difficulty imagining him doing ANYTHING for ANY reason other than his own self-interest.
It won't happen. There is to much money involved. How many federal prisoners would be turned loose & how many guards that would be out of work. Might even have to shut down some of those high dollar prisons. Hold your breath!
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