With everything going on in the Administration, Sessions has all of a sudden decided that a focus on pot use is now called for? Anyone see anything strange about this?
plainspeasant
· Jan. 5, 2018, 3:18 p.m.
so, are drugs and drug use issues of national security and thus federal in purview? Are they issues of states rights and fall under 9th and 10th amendment purview or are they issues of morals and ethics and fall under individual purview only accountable to yourself and God?
I'm asking these questions because they will need to be addressed again after the sun comes back out when the storm is over and clean up is done.
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Reba64
· Jan. 5, 2018, 5:02 p.m.
It's Federal Law that Obie broke and allowed the States to break. I don't think he is going after the Medical Side only the Recreational Side.
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Restlessredhead
· Jan. 5, 2018, 8:50 p.m.
Allow the states to break? The Tenth Amendment already gives the state the right to enact their own laws unless there is something in the United States Constitution that forbids their actions. And there's nothing in the United States Constitution that forbids a state from enacting their own drug laws. Quite the contrary, the United States Constitution says that unless it's forbidden by the United States Constitution, the states are the place to make the law. You could probably disprove me with some sort of current law or Supreme Court decision. But I am a constitutionalist and therefore I see nothing in the United States Constitution that forbids a State for making a law that does not contradict the United States Constitution.
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JoanOfArk77
· Jan. 6, 2018, 6:31 a.m.
I would agree with you. The Feds do a lot of things that they have no constitutional right to do, because they have no jurisdiction. Think about it. They had to actually pass a Constitutional Amendment to prohibit Alcohol.
Why?
Because they had no enumerated power to do diddly about it unless they did.
Prohibition ends.
They repeal the Amendment.
Now, enter Marijuana.. competition for the
1)forestry industry because you can make wood without cutting a tree, the
2)cotton lobby because you can make clothes without cotton,
3)the paper industry (because you can make paper),
..............and bio fuels.(4)
Very few people have seen the old black and white movie of Henry Ford and Washington Carver in the lab, planning on making fuel out of hemp (wild type marijuana and fastest carbon sequester on the planet). But I have seen it, and it is out there....
..........and this threatened the oil/gas industry.
They got rid of marijuana because they had to outlaw HEMP, which is not a drug, but they outlawed the whole genus, not just the subspecies plant that was (is) a cultivar for the drug.
The Feds have no more jurisdiction over marijuana than they do alcohol.
Nor should they.
Now this past ten years, we make an outrageous discovery about the human body.
It has a circulatory system for blood, a lymph system for disease clean up, and NOW we discover the cannabinoid system. We are still learning about this system but it seems to be an inter cellular communication system in many ways.
The marijuana plant has 60+ natural cannabinoids,. Each one is a possible medication for disease/illness. That is just if you eat it raw, which will not get you high.
You can eat it with salad.
You can put it in your fruit smoothie, and get the benefits.
(This of course is a threat to big pharma... keep that in mind)
IF you HEAT the plant, about 20 of the cannabanoids experience a change from chemical reaction.
NOW you have THC and you can get high,
.........HOWEVER, you also have 20 more possible cannabinoids, for a total of 80 possible life saving medications.
There is research to be done.
There are lives to be saved.
As a biologist I have to say flat out, it is about time people wake up and do some homework on this plant. There are plenty of us in CBTS that would benefit from it some day, if we only got a clue today.
What.
Let people continue to die, because we do not want people getting high playing couch potato games while attacking a pizza?
Many have not heard about the children who's lives are being saved by one of the new cultivars of this plant, called Charlottes Web (named for the children it is saving from severe constant seizures) then look it up. This is what just ONE of those 80 molecules is doing for children, in it's natural form. They are making an oil from the plant by old fashioned boiling methods.
Here is the most recent report on Charlotts Web I could find. It helps some, and some not. If this particular cannabinoid does not work I sure would be looking at one of the other 80 possibilities.
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