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sailingaway
10-20-2012, 11:25 PM
great test case for nullification, there and on NDAA the left agrees with us. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/21/14587726-feds-not-changing-marijuana-policy-even-if-3-states-legalize-it-us-official-says?lite

paulbot24
10-21-2012, 03:35 AM
I completely agree with the legalization of pot but leftie states like California and New York confuse me. They have a strange salad-bar approach to liberty. Ban your rights to smoke tobacco inside your own condo and entire duplexes but allow them to smoke pot in the same duplex. Can't show a billboard of Coca-Cola classic near a school but you can have a gay parade with men wearing rainbow-colored speedos in the streets a block away. I think it is bizarre that they can be so liberty-oriented and still maintain that smug nanny government knows best attitude at the same time. The article mentions Eric Holder will be involved so who knows what might happen. A reverse operation fast and furious where they smuggle pot from Mexico into the US so it can be siezed here in larger narcotic busts to justify the existence of the DEA?

tod evans
10-21-2012, 04:03 AM
They're out of control and have been since Nixon.

Our country is a mere shell of what it once was, and I blame the federal government.

Neither people or businesses are free to follow their own path.........And it's all for the greater good, or for the children, pick the euphemism.

paulbot24
10-21-2012, 04:18 AM
They're out of control and have been since Nixon.

Our country is a mere shell of what it once was, and I blame the federal government.

Neither people or businesses are free to follow their own path.........And it's all for the greater good, or for the children, pick the euphemism.

Exactly. Bubble wrapped, sanitized, plastic, and saccharin coated to make it all easy to swallow while still being sugar-free to curb obesity! YAY!

Czolgosz
10-21-2012, 06:23 AM
It's the People's fault for this mess. Our fault.


You know what has to be done.

tod evans
10-21-2012, 06:40 AM
It's the People's fault for this mess. Our fault.


You know what has to be done.

Yup, I'm going to believe the television.....[sarc!]

sailingaway
10-21-2012, 06:49 AM
I completely agree with the legalization of pot but leftie states like California and New York confuse me. They have a strange salad-bar approach to liberty. Ban your rights to smoke tobacco inside your own condo and entire duplexes but allow them to smoke pot in the same duplex. Can't show a billboard of Coca-Cola classic near a school but you can have a gay parade with men wearing rainbow-colored speedos in the streets a block away. I think it is bizarre that they can be so liberty-oriented and still maintain that smug nanny government knows best attitude at the same time. The article mentions Eric Holder will be involved so who knows what might happen. A reverse operation fast and furious where they smuggle pot from Mexico into the US so it can be siezed here in larger narcotic busts to justify the existence of the DEA?

That particular blend has nothing to do with liberty and everything to do with eagerness to impose ' the right views' on all, through 'education' and supressing all other views.

nobody's_hero
10-21-2012, 07:41 AM
I completely agree with the legalization of pot but leftie states like California and New York confuse me. They have a strange salad-bar approach to liberty. Ban your rights to smoke tobacco inside your own condo and entire duplexes but allow them to smoke pot in the same duplex. Can't show a billboard of Coca-Cola classic near a school but you can have a gay parade with men wearing rainbow-colored speedos in the streets a block away. I think it is bizarre that they can be so liberty-oriented and still maintain that smug nanny government knows best attitude at the same time. The article mentions Eric Holder will be involved so who knows what might happen. A reverse operation fast and furious where they smuggle pot from Mexico into the US so it can be siezed here in larger narcotic busts to justify the existence of the DEA?

I think they simply do what they feel is necessary to be re-elected. There's no deep philosophical understanding of liberty. Thus the confusion and apparent contradictions.

Peace Piper
10-21-2012, 08:20 AM
The feds will do whatever is necessary to protect their patent. It's a shame that the "reporter" didn't ask why the Feds have a patent on the use of cannabinoids (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6630507.PN.&OS=PN/6630507&RS=PN/6630507)- the main ingredient in Cannabis.


WA-I-502 doesn't fully "legalize" cannabis anyway.

Some people even think they are going to open stores to sell the herb if it passes.

It's like they haven't been paying attention for the last 4 years.

"Washington voters are being told a big lie. New Approach Washington, the campaign behind Initiative 502, is advertising that it will “legalize” marijuana. It would not.

It creates a very narrow exception that defines the possession of one ounce by adults over 21, and the state’s rules for production, as “not a violation” of the law..."

I-502 will have absolutely no effect on criminal organizations in Mexico or anywhere else. To actually get the benefit of ending prohibition, as we did with alcohol, you have to actually legalize the substance in question, not play games and pander to fears. I-502 also fails to legalize hemp, which would open a $430 million domestic hemp market currently supplied primarily by China.

http://www.theweedblog.com/will-i-502-truly-legalize-marijuana-in-washington-state/

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"LOS ANGELES - A top Justice Department official has said in a television interview that the federal government is ready to combat any "dangers" of state-sanctioned recreational pot, amid criticism of the Obama administration for its relative silence on legalization drives in three states..."

"...I think it is pretty clear from this video that the Obama administration won't take any legalization measure lying down," Kevin Sabet, a former adviser to Gil Kerlikowske, the Obama administration's drug policy director, said in an email.
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The Obomber administration has been quiet because they need every vote they can get, and some of the suckers that voted for him the first time might just abandon this filthy lying sack of shit if the grinning liar or his minions actually said what they believe.

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In the United States of America, the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave,
growing an herb that has been used for 10,000 years for food, fiber, fuel and medicine is illegal,
while real hardcore drugs like Viagra are advertised 24/7. It is a blatant display of a deeply psychotic culture.

What will the people *NOT* believe if spoken by the "leaders"?

American citizens deserve much of the blame placed on these freaks that want to control what one does in their private life, but if history is any guide, they will re-elect most of the people that brought this situation to where it is today.

Shame On US CITIZENS as well as the whores and scoundrels that make the laws that the fools have to obey.

DRUG TEST OUR EMPLOYEES and do it now

Peace&Freedom
10-21-2012, 08:37 AM
I completely agree with the legalization of pot but leftie states like California and New York confuse me. They have a strange salad-bar approach to liberty. Ban your rights to smoke tobacco inside your own condo and entire duplexes but allow them to smoke pot in the same duplex. Can't show a billboard of Coca-Cola classic near a school but you can have a gay parade with men wearing rainbow-colored speedos in the streets a block away. I think it is bizarre that they can be so liberty-oriented and still maintain that smug nanny government knows best attitude at the same time. The article mentions Eric Holder will be involved so who knows what might happen. A reverse operation fast and furious where they smuggle pot from Mexico into the US so it can be siezed here in larger narcotic busts to justify the existence of the DEA?

Those CA and NY persons are neither 'liberty oriented' nor inconsistent, they are being consistent left-authoritarians. AKA, "freedom for me (and what I like) but not for thee (or what I don't like)." I once chatted with a fellow New Yorker about her liberal views, and how she (for example) reconciled her ardent support for car laws mandating the attachment of seat belts, with her pro-choice rhetoric on abortion (or 'right to control your own body'). "No, people shouldn't have that right when it comes to driving," she actually said. When I made the pro-life suggestion that perhaps people shouldn't have that right when it comes to impacting another body (the unborn's), she strongly objected to me trying to make exceptions to her right to control her own body. So, freedom for her, but she can control freak everyone else.

Icymudpuppy
10-22-2012, 07:46 AM
I-502 also fails to legalize hemp,

This statement is not true. I-502 completely legalizes industrial hemp production in the state so long as the plants possess less than .3% THC.