Comments on: 17 Members of Congress Sign Letter Asking Feds to Respect States’ Marijuana Laws

By: tanbark

tanbark — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:51:46 +0000

“Whose Ox is being gored?” In the larger sense, that of the drug cartels and the people who are flourishing in “the war on drugs”;

which includes various uber-law-enforcement groups, including the governments of some of the countries supplying MaryJane.

Same old story; the people most in favor of prohibition were the Baptists and the bootleggers.

By: litvak36

litvak36 — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:53:26 +0000

Arnold was born in Austria and can never be President,but I agree that Obama should direct the Justice Dept. to respect state law on pot.

By: seaglass

seaglass — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:17:00 +0000

It’s almost unbelievable that it’s taken over 40 yrs. since the first petitions were put out to get pot legal in a state. Calif. back then.

By: blueokie

blueokie — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:57:58 +0000

Keep in mind Barry kept the draconian Bush hold-over Michele M. Leonhart as head of the DEA (actually promoted her). That should give some indication of the administrations view, and most likely the bulk of the Dims.

By: nonpartisanliberal

nonpartisanliberal — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:52:27 +0000

Were Republicans invited to sign on? I know that Ron Paul supports legalization.

By: carver

carver — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:48:06 +0000

Many conservatives support the legalization of pot, chief among them was conservative icon William F. Buckley. From a pure conservative point of view it should be a slam dunk. That they oppose legalization tells me they don’t even understand their own ideological basics.

By: Ann in AZ

Ann in AZ — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:49:47 +0000

Conservatives should surely get with the program. William F. Buckley and a whole slew of other leaders of the conservatives are or were already on board. Current players who are on the fence should look up some of the writings of their leadership on the subject and quit looking at it with an eye toward giving up some control of the serfs. After all is said and done, this is a drug that no one has ever overdosed and died from, the worst you can do if you consumed way too much pot is fall asleep for a few hours, and the drug does not have any apparent bad results when mixed with any other drug known to man.

By: cs100

cs100 — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:43:00 +0000

Iam so glad CO approved this, now all the mexican drug cartels can leave CA and go to CO and ruin their national parks with legal illegal grows…leagal illegal grows in foreclosed homes, ruining the homes and stealing electricity in the process.. heck we’ve even busted them growing in the middle of our corn fields. You can have them CO!! Thanks from central CA!!!

By: liberalarts

liberalarts — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:35:09 +0000

Whose ox is being gored?

By: tanbark

tanbark — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:29:51 +0000

Suddenlike, I’m a staunch supporter of “states rights”.

Let’s keep the federal gummint out of our personal lives. :o)

John C. Calhoun would be PRRROUD of Colorado and Washington! :o)