Law enforcement resources should be used to go after individuals who are harming others- not for policing arbitrary pre-crime scenarios.
The people who run both major parties & the conventions that nominate presidential candidates agree on the Drug War.
Ditto for the TV networks that sponsor presidential debates & ask scripted questions of candidates.
Local media video promotes the Drug War-
Serious subject matter- covered like an elementary school field trip down to the fire station- except- students might come up with some intelligent or interesting questions at the fire station.
The federal government must have magic crime fighting powers to stop terrorists. The magic powers don’t work on crimes like bank robbery or drug trafficking.
The people who run The Drug War are opposed to web-based forums for user group discussions & people who post documents and messages for public discussions, and advocate the “legal” sale of marijuana. Maybe if they had their way- they’d hand down a totalitarian mandate forbidding free & peaceful adults from sharing ideas on the internet– moving to suppress ideas- sort of like banning books.
President Obama’s YouTube Forum deems marijuana legalization questions “inappropriate”
“Every place where drugs become legalized, matter of fact is more people on welfare, more people who are dependent, more people with bad health outcomes, fewer people who are able workers who can pay attention on the job, and a drain of money into illegality. Because immediately behind legalized marijuana, comes cocaine and heroin. And the very people who were busy selling marijuana branch into even more aggressive sale of the harder illegal drugs. So, I think it is a big net economic loss and a job killing idea.” – Newt Gingrich
Yes, Speaker Gingrich-
Just like when marijuana was legal- in the days when Americans were inventing and producing light bulbs, automobiles, airplanes, etc.- when there were no drug gangs or cartels, federal drug czars, people on welfare, violent SWAT raids on peaceful homeowners, etc.
Speaker Gingrich-
It took a constitutional amendment to prohibit the sale of a glass of wine- why no constitutional amendment to authorize a federal war on drugs, drug czar, prohibition of marijuana, etc.
Driving while impaired testing/legal limits for marijuana-
The concern is that bodily fluids may test positive for residual evidence of marijuana use (not abuse) unrelated to driving while impaired.
This is not to defend operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, legal or illegal drugs or marijuana– the concern is to avoid wrongful DUI arrests for people who are not impaired.
If this is an honest concern- what has the state been waiting on?
People have been able to get behind the wheel after using marijuana for decades.
This will remain so- even if recreational use of marijuana never becomes legal.
Maybe the Washington State Patrol sees this as a non-issue.
Some will say there is no reason to be concerned about being forced to submit to a marijuana impairment test because in order to be stopped for impaired driving- you have to show impairment?
This leaves out the possibility of being involved in an accident through no fault of your own- rear ended, hit a deer, etc.
During the accident investigation you are asked to submit to a test- maybe you appear to be stressed out, nervous, in shock, emotional, etc.
I would have thought the ACLU would be the last to propose dividing adults into groups of 1st and 2nd class citizens- those age 18-20 being prohibited from acting on their natural rights.
All adults should receive the protections and benefits of lifting a marijuana prohibition which is more harmful than the effects of adult marijuana use.
Americans were never meant to agree on matters of a personal nature. This is why we have so many different churches here.
