Legalizing Marijuana?

[PotshotPolka]

Bibleman frowns upon your shenanigans.

[Itch]

Legalize it.

Instead of spending money fighting it..
Get money taxing it.

[Mikey]

Legalize it.

Instead of spending money fighting it..
Get money taxing it.

[Zargotelc]

I cannot see any reason why marijuana should not be legalized. With all the benefits it has medically how can it be illegal?

The same can't be said about the rest of the drugs, but clearly marijuana is the least harmful of all the illegal drugs. It's misclassified as illegal, and should be legalized ASAP. With the recent Holder comments, the issue of marijuana should be left up to the States. However, it is still going to be a rough road to legalization, the other day another California marijuana center was raided. What happened to States rights, Holder?

[LegalSmash]

I cannot see any reason why marijuana should not be legalized. With all the benefits it has medically how can it be illegal?

The same can't be said about the rest of the drugs, but clearly marijuana is the least harmful of all the illegal drugs. It's misclassified as illegal, and should be legalized ASAP. With the recent Holder comments, the issue of marijuana should be left up to the States. However, it is still going to be a rough road to legalization, the other day another California marijuana center was raided. What happened to States rights, Holder?

Its not the state's right to harbor a building filled with a substance considered illegal on a federal level... read the rest of the constitution for the supremacy clause regarding conflict of laws. California, like always, cannot read, write, or understand anything more than the lines of a porno flick.... states have no rights to make legal substances that the fed says are illegal, moreover, while the state CAN decide not to prosecute under STATE law, the fed, or state agency on behalf of the fed, CAN and usually DOES prosecute under federal law.

[Slavic]

Its not the state's right to harbor a building filled with a substance considered illegal on a federal level... read the rest of the constitution for the supremacy clause regarding conflict of laws. California, like always, cannot read, write, or understand anything more than the lines of a porno flick.... states have no rights to make legal substances that the fed says are illegal, moreover, while the state CAN decide not to prosecute under STATE law, the fed, or state agency on behalf of the fed, CAN and usually DOES prosecute under federal law.

Just refreshing my understanding of State/Federal power. The Federal has power over the prosecution of illegal drugs in States because the drug in question has been declared illegal on the Federal level. If the Federal government didn't schedule such a substance, then the power would fall to the State because the Federal is not utilizing it.

If not the Federal, the State, if not the State, the People. In this case the Federal is pretty entrenched in drug law.