Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy.
The U.S. House of Representatives is likely to take up a historic marijuana decriminalization bill this month. The bill – called the MORE Act – would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, and explicitly allow states to decide how to handle the substance within their borders.
Currently, marijuana is legal in 11 states and the District of Columbia. Seven states will vote on ballot measures either legalizing the substance or making it available for medical use.
Nationally, 66 percent of Americans say they support legalization, with the strongest support coming from Democrats and those aged 65 and younger. Independents (68 percent) and Republicans (51 percent) also back the idea.
While the House may find the votes to pass the MORE Act, the Senate is highly unlikely to address it. According to reports, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell – who supported legalized cultivation of the hemp plant, a marijuana relative – is opposed to any change in federal marijuana laws.
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The real policy challenge for Conservatives is not cannabis’ potential harm to society but how to monetize it.
I’m Christian Conservative, this is why I WONT donate to RNC. They oppose God’s herbal freedom.
Genesis 1:29
And God said, Behold, I have given you eEVERY!! herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and (also) every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Well why don’t you boil up a large pot of poison oak for yourself?
So you are all for ingesting hemlock?
2 Peter 3:16
“As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.”
King James Version (KJV)
Marijuana has long been called gateway drug —– a drug that leads to even more destructive drugs like Meth and Heroine that destroy lives, families, finances etc. This is just one more step towards the destruction of our republic.
I’ve got news for you then. Marijuana is not a gate way drug. I have been smoking for 40 years, since the age of 20, and the only thing wrong with it are the laws. I have never had any other kind of drugs that they claim it leads to, nor do I take any prescription drugs. And I have never voted for a Democrat. The only reason marijuana was made illegal is because it competes with 4 major international industries. Fabrics, pulp, plastic, and fuel, namely gasoline. The Mobil, Dow, Dupont, Cannon, and logging industries conspired in 1936, making a fictional movie called “Reefer Madness”, to show to Congress, to convince them to pass a law against it. And if you watch the movie, they didn’t even spell the name marijuana correctly. As a matter of fact, marijuana is Spanish for the word Hemp. Look it up. I did in college, because I was interested as to why it was so popular with my friends. Oh and by the way, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson both grew, and smoked it too. Read their diaries some time.
Well why don’t you boil up a large pot of poison oak for yourself?
Federal laws criminalizing use/possession of ANY substance are unconstitutional. Remember they needed a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol? The same reason applies to any other substance. The government is only allowed to do what’s in the Constitution.
I personally don’t and have never used it but I am for legalizing it and all other drugs with strict controls. First I am quite comfortable with people sacrificing themselves to balance the budget. If you use alcohol or cigarettes you are already doing it. One of the conditions for use is that you agree to be sterilized and have no dependent children. Drugs are a Darwinian factor in cleaning up the gene pool. The govt should also bear no responsibility for your rehabilitation or care. Second if your kids become addicted then this will eliminate them from competing with my kids for jobs and advancement. If my kids are dumb enough to get addicted after all the instruction and guidance I have given them then it’s on them. Drug use is a character failing period. You can’t become addicted if you never use and by now it is clear where drug use leads. Finally legalizing drugs will save millions of lives. Not here in America maybe but definitely in the countries south of the US. Better the users and funders of drug violence die than the innocent people who are collateral damage trying to eek out a living.
They are just pushing for the money from marijuana, which is more addictive and deadly than tobacco
I am an old conservative and I do not smoke nor drink. I am totally against legalizing drugs especially when the taxpayers end up paying for overdoses, rehabs etc.
Does a bear take a dump in the woods? OF COURSE, this dim wit partisan house will vote for legalizing maragwana.
So typical of the demoncraps to want to do something so stupid. The last thing our country needs is a bunch of potheads laying around.