Eric Holder said he’ll use federal law to override California’s Marijuana law if it passes. How do Cons feel?
I ask how Cons feel because it’s a precarious situation.
Proposition 19, which would make it legal for people 21 and older to carry marijuana as long as it weighs no more than 1 ounce – this is a “Liberal” law that is mostly supported by Liberals. Eric Holder would be clamping down on a Liberal law.
At the same time, it’s an act of the Federal government practicing “big government” by meddling with a State issue.
So how do Conservatives feel about it? Are they glad that a Liberal law could be extinguished? Or are they mad that the Federal government would be impeding on States’ rights?
Lttlehrse: Con, what “Black Panthers” are you talking about?
Is it that non-issue Fox made up from the 2008 Elections? Where there were a couple Black Panthers standing security outside of a polling both – one polling booth in in area? Yet tried to make it seem like A.) That they were “threatening” people, and B.), that this was some kind of national epidemic. It was a non-issue that no reasonable person cares about.
Blu: If you were pro-American, you wouldn’t be for any US State going downhill and becoming a “cesspool”. But apparently you aren’t pro-American.
Secondly, you fail to see the purpose of this law. Millions of dollars are spent each year prosecuting people for having even a few flakes of Marijuana. Decriminalization would save money, give relief to jail/prison overcrowding, free up the court system, and take away power from street drug dealers through legal means of purchasing.
But since you’re uneducated about it, you think it has no benefits and that it will simply turn California in to a “cesspool”. Oh, you mean like the Netherlands where marijuana is legal, and yet their crime rate is far lower than the US’s and they have one of the smallest prison populations in Europe per capita?
Lttlehrse: Yes, Con, I’m aware of them. There was no proof whatsoever that they “threatened” anyone. I do know Black Panthers sometimes stand “security”. Whether you consider it intimidating or not is subjective. But I saw no evidence that they “threatened” anyone. The tape only showed them standing outside a polling place. How is that illegal?
It was a non-issue that only Fox News was concerned about. That happened 2 years ago. Are you scraping the bottom of the barrel? No one else cares about that.
Most Cons are in prison for much more serious crimes than marijuana. They probably don’t care.
I think it should be legalized, mostly because it is insane to send someone to prison for selling or possessing a weed.
BTW…..I know many Liberals who are against legalization.
Fuck Eric Holder, he has his hand in the pot business. Otherwise he wouldn’t be so against it seeing as Portugal did the same thing with all drugs in th 90’s and drug addiction and crime actually went down.
As a Republican, I think Holder is out of line, but only partially. CA can legalize marijuana for personal use, I think that should be up to the state legislature, but when it comes to buying and selling, specifically across state lines, then the feds are Constitutionally involved.
corruptopn from cartels to govenors make to much money on the so called “war”.
CCA sells prisoner debt back to taxpayers etc,
Cali should do what it wants.
He did not say that. I think that if we could just get California high it would be much easier to finally destroy them! Hey! It’s not like we are talking about national and state security. We are talking about creating more stoned drivers and unmotivated reefers.
This isn’t a liberal/Conservative issue, it is a Federal vs State issue, however since you ask I see the issue as a positive.
Eric Holder is the single largest piece of crap to ever infect the DOJ. He is a traitor with a long history of working on behalf of Communist and Terrorist organizations under the guise of a prosecutor.
On the other hand we have California as Socially and Economically bankrupt state that has spent years interfering with the politics of other states with impunity.
Why would any Conservative care if they passed a law that would cause drug addicts, drug dealers and other human waste to migrate there and concentrate them into one already designated cesspool of humanity?
Combine this with the added benefit of a leftist traitor AG going after Leftist Traitors that infest our left coast and I can’t see a down side to that.
Same as with Arizona, the feds need to leave to the state that power which the Constitution regulates to the states. Anything more is b.s.
My overall feeling is that if you grow your own for your own personal use, the government should stay out of it, but I agree with keeping it illegal to sell, and each state should be allowed to make their own laws regarding the issue, and I can always move to a state which better reflects my attitudes towards it should I so choose.
Sorry, I just can’t allow the government something else to tax.
I know a lot of conservatives, myself included, who would like to buy pot legally and who have been using a form of personal “nullification” of bad laws for years.
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I am a Conservative and I don’t smoke or eat pot. I am voting YES on 19 because what we have been doing isn’t working. I have no respect for Holder. But one thing we can be sure of is this – if 19 passes, which I think it will – The Obama White House will use it as a distraction to keep the focus off our President who is having a mental breakdown.
Well, the way I feel about it is that marijuana is a mood-altering substance that nobody needs to be using. However, we do allow other mood-altering substances such as alcohol and nicotine. But a lot of states don’t allow an open container of alcohol in a car, and I have heard of communities where you’re not allowed to carry an open beer on the street.
As a Conservative, I believe that the residents of each State should be allowed to decide just how much mood altering they want going on in public. And I have noticed that marijuana seems to slow people down rather than revving them up; they’re not going to be speeding or chasing anybody down the street with a machete if they’re stoned. In fact, a marijuana-smoking criminal ought to be pretty easy to catch. “And what was the suspect doing when you apprehended him for robbing that liquor store?” “He was sitting on the sidewalk popping a cold one, Your Honor.”
Morals aside, if the people of California are comfortable with this then I don’t think it’s anybody else’s business. If Holder wants to stamp out Demon Drugs, he needs to start by allowing Arizona to uphold immigration law which will weed out a lot of the hard stuff that’s being brought over the border by illegals.