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Title: CPAC 2015: Cruz Marijuana Policy Shifts (should be state's decision)
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IBTimes
URL Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/cpac-2015-cr ... arijuana-policy-shifts-1830142
Published: Feb 26, 2015
Author: Max Willens
Post Date: 2015-02-28 09:41:47 by kenh
Keywords: None
Views: 1902
Comments: 21
A would-be Republican presidential nominee has changed his mind on marijuana. Sen. Ted Cruz said he supports Colorado’s state rights to keep marijuana legalized without federal interference during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity at Thursday’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). “I actually think this is a great embodiment of what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called ‘the laboratories of democracy,’” Cruz said. “If the citizens of Colorado decide they want to go down that road, that’s their prerogative. I personally don’t agree with it, but that’s their right.” Cruz’s comments at CPAC bring him in line with a number of prominent Republican presidential candidates, including former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Rand Paul, who have all said they believe the federal government should not interfere in states where marijuana has been legalized.
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#1. To: kenh (#0)
Seems a little odd that such a prominent and successful litigator before the Court (and Rehnquist's clerk) would have such a sudden juridical epiphany on a major issue over decades. Sounds like he caved to the other pols who did take a much braver stand on the issue earlier than he did. In short: "Hey, me too!"
And what if the chemicals from that laboratory start polluting and poisoning other states? What then, Mr. Cruz? This doesn't say much for a Presidential candidate who is ignorant of the facts surrounding Prohibition. That, prior to Prohibition, alcohol legalization was up to each state and that half the states banned alcohol. Which didn't work because "wet" states smuggled booze to the "dry" states. Which led to nationwide Prohibition. If Mr. Cruz supports legalized marijuana at the state level, then how about deciding abortion at the state level? Immigration? Civil rights/affirmative action/racial preferences/hate speech? Gun rights? Religious liberty? Porn censorship? Marriage laws? Sodomy laws? Why just marijuana, Mr. Cruz?
Rehnquist was one of the three justices, along with O'Connor and Thomas, who sided with Raich. (edit: corrected spelling error)
Don't hold your breath waiting for Vannity to ask him this obvious followup question.
Stevens wrote for the majority, Scalia concurred separately, O'Connor dissented as did Thomas (separately). Shown here. "Stevens, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer, JJ., joined. Scalia, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment. O’Connor, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Thomas, J., joined as to all but Part III. Thomas, J., filed a dissenting opinion." They just upheld the Commerce Clause as the most powerful principle in the known universe. Which they do as habitually as tumbling out of bed every day.
Is there any word on when the pole stuck up Cruz's arse will be removed?
Then people stupid enough to suck smoke into their lungs will start DYING from diseases. Mother Nature always polices behaviors that are unhealthy. People need the rope to hang themselves. It's the only way survival of the fittest will continue to work. Cigarettes are an excellent example, they are killing people stupid enough to smoke by the millions. Unfortunately, they spawn a few times before their self inflicted demise. White, you are fighting a losing battle.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
The dying doesn't concern me. It's when they get cancer and I have to pay for their expensive treatment.
Jeb Bush Says Let States Legalize Marijuana http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4529611/jeb-bush-says-let-states- legalize- marijuana __________________________________________________________________________ I thought it might be easier if you heard it from me.
All-powerful. (with the exceptions of Morrison and Lopez)
Believe me, that only adds to the long list of why I'm not voting for him.
Vaping the THC is the trendy smoke-free way to smoke da ganja.
Yeah, there are better ways to get THC in the blood than through the lungs... but as we both know, the majority of pot smokers have the IQ of a box of glass pipes.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
Isn't that the whole point? Alcohol too.
I agree. In my 20, I had the privledge to have arrested the same person for 2 or 3 DWI's... and then find that same person dead in an alcohol related crash. It's happened more than once. If we as a species are too sympathetic and weak to deal with stupidity... Mother Nature will take care of it. It's a shame tho, we could be so more efficient than Mother Nature.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
People need the rope to hang themselves. It's the only way survival of the fittest will continue to work. Cigarettes are an excellent example, they are killing people stupid enough to smoke by the millions. Unfortunately, they spawn a few times before their self inflicted demise. White, you are fighting a losing battle. ---- GrandIsland The dying doesn't concern me. It's when they get cancer and I have to pay for their expensive treatment. --- misterwhite Well put GI, and don't let whitey fool you, he really doesn't give a shit about medical costs, or he would be a tax/entitlement protestor.. He's a prohibitionist/majority rule statist, and promotes his anti- constitutional agenda every day in every way.
This case made a major contribution to expanding the commerce clause. The interstate commerce clause has been expanded to justify most of what the Federal government does. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/317/111/case.html Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942) 317 U.S. 111 1. Pending a referendum vote of farmers upon wheat quotas proclaimed by the Secretary of Agriculture under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, the Secretary made a radio address in which he advocated approval of the quotas and called attention to the recent enactment by Congress of the amendatory act, later approved Page 317 U. S. 112 May 26, 1941. The speech mentioned the provisions of the amendment for increase of loans on wheat, but not the fact that it also increased the penalty on excess production, and added that, because of the uncertain world situation, extra acreages of wheat had been deliberately planted, and "farmers should not be penalized because they have provided insurance against shortages of food." There was no evidence that the subsequent referendum vote approving the quotas was influenced by the speech. Held, that, in any event, and even assuming that the penalties referred to in the speech were those prescribed by the Act, the validity of the vote was not thereby affected. P. 317 U. S. 117. 2. The wheat marketing quota and attendant penalty provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended by the Act of May 26, 1941, when applied to wheat not intended in any part for commerce but wholly for consumption on the farm, are within the commerce power of Congress. P. 317 U. S. 118. 3. The effect of the Act is to restrict the amount of wheat which may be produced for market and the extent as well to which one may forestall resort to the market by producing for his own needs. P. 317 U. S. 127. 4. That the production of wheat for consumption on the farm may be trivial in the particular case is not enough to remove the grower from the scope of federal regulation where his contribution, taken with that of many others similarly situated, is far from trivial. P. 317 U. S. 127. 5. The power to regulate interstate commerce includes the power to regulate the prices at which commodities in that commerce are dealt in and practices affecting such prices. P. 317 U. S. 128. 6. A factor of such volume and variability as wheat grown for home consumption would have a substantial influence on price conditions on the wheat market, both because such wheat, with rising prices, may flow into the market and check price increases and, because, though never marketed, it supplies the need of the grower which would otherwise be satisfied by his purchases in the open market. P. 317 U. S. 128. 7. The amendatory Act of May 26, 1941, which increased the penalty upon "farm marketing excess" and included in that category wheat which previously had not been subject to penalty, held not invalid as retroactive legislation repugnant to the Fifth Amendment when applied to wheat planted and growing before it was enacted, but harvested and threshed thereafter. P. 317 U. S. 131. 43 F.Supp. 1017, reversed.
Let's get the UN involved; that group shall fix everything.
white is on record as supporting the U.N. in their drug policies.
She is trailor park trash.
Their drug policies? The only thing I remember supporting was that the U.S. honor the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs treaty they signed (along with 185 other nations). When an individual U.S. state legalizes a drug, it not only violates federal law but it also violates our international treaty. Not that you would care. I'm just sayin'.
#2. To: kenh (#0)
“I actually think this is a great embodiment of what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called ‘the laboratories of democracy,’” Cruz said.
#3. To: TooConservative (#1)
(Edited)
#4. To: misterwhite (#2)
Why just marijuana, Mr. Cruz?
#5. To: kenh, nolu chan (#3)
(Edited)
Rehnquist was one of the three justices, along with O'Connor and Thomas, who sided with Raich.
#6. To: kenh (#0)
#7. To: misterwhite (#2)
(Edited)
And what if the chemicals from that laboratory start polluting and poisoning other states? What then, Mr. Cruz?
#8. To: GrandIsland (#7)
"Then people stupid enough to suck smoke into their lungs will start DYING from diseases."
#9. To: misterwhite (#2)
#10. To: TooConservative (#5)
"They just upheld the Commerce Clause as the most powerful principle in the known universe."
#11. To: kenh (#9)
#12. To: GrandIsland (#7)
Then people stupid enough to suck smoke into their lungs will start DYING from diseases. Mother Nature always polices behaviors that are unhealthy.
#13. To: TooConservative (#12)
Vaping the THC is the trendy smoke-free way to smoke da ganja.
#14. To: GrandIsland (#13)
(Edited)
... but as we both know, the majority of pot smokers have the IQ of a box of glass pipes.
#15. To: TooConservative (#14)
Isn't that the whole point? Alcohol
#16. To: GrandIsland, Y'ALL (#7)
#17. To: TooConservative, kenh (#5)
They just upheld the Commerce Clause as the most powerful principle in the known universe. Which they do as habitually as tumbling out of bed every day.
Syllabus
#18. To: misterwhite (#2)
And what if the chemicals from that laboratory start polluting and poisoning other states? What then, Mr. Cruz?
#19. To: Pridie.Nones (#18)
Let's get the UN involved; that group shall fix everything.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#20. To: Deckard (#19)
#21. To: Deckard (#19)
"white is on record as supporting the U.N. in their drug policies."
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