Randy Paul Flipflops on Marajauna etc.

Ralph Coffman said:
Paul, cannot claim ignorance for this flip-flop. One of the senators that introduced the bill Bob Goodlatte (R-Va) submitted a committee report citing President Barack Obama failure to enforce federal marijuana laws as an example of his federal overreach
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One, it's the federal marijuana law itself which is the overreach--read the Tenth Amendment some time. Two, what's your first language? Three, who is Randolph Paul? Because I've never heard of anyone not named Randolph being nicknamed Randy.

Four, have a negrep. That green pip doesn't suit you at all.
 
Ralph Coffman said:
Paul, cannot claim ignorance for this flip-flop. One of the senators that introduced the bill Bob Goodlatte (R-Va) submitted a committee report citing President Barack Obama failure to enforce federal marijuana laws as an example of his federal overreach
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Easy solution: Repeal the federal marijuana ban.
 
Ralph Coffman said:
Paul, cannot claim ignorance for this flip-flop. One of the senators that introduced the bill Bob Goodlatte (R-Va) submitted a committee report citing President Barack Obama failure to enforce federal marijuana laws as an example of his federal overreach
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That is not why he supported the bill. He supported it because the President wasn't enforcing parts of the health care law. It is not the job of the Executive Branch to write law, which is what they were doing by not implementing unpopular parts Obamacare. It is the job to enforce laws.

I assume you know that are trolling but I wouldn't rule out the possibility that you have Down Syndrome.
 
I didn't realize we were allowing trolls to post clickbait hit-pieces here now?

A really poor attempt at one too.
 
I guess this is one of those things where we're supposed to hope that Rand is lying. One of the main reasons I supported his father and him is that I hoped he would not enforce authoritarian laws. If the day ever comes that Rand is president and federal agents are enforcing federal marijuana laws, I will be a Rand opponent. Here's hoping that day never comes.
 
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How can you not want a president that ignores laws. I as a citizen ignore probably just as many laws as I follow. There are more laws on the books than I could ever keep up with.
 
fr33 said:
I guess this is one of those things where we're supposed to hope that Rand is lying. One of the main reasons I supported his father and him is that I hoped he would not enforce authoritarian laws. If the day ever comes that Rand is president and federal agents are enforcing federal marijuana laws, I will be a Rand opponent. Here's hoping that day never comes.
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This was a troll blog post. This had nothing to do with marijuana at all. The whole issue was about Obamacare.

He has already weighed in on the issue of marijuana laws on the state and local level. For example http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/rand-paul-let-d.c.-legalize-marijuana/article/2555685
 
Krugminator2 said:
This was a troll blog post. This had nothing to do with marijuana at all. The whole issue was about Obamacare.

He has already weighed in on the issue of marijuana laws on the state and local level. For example http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/rand-paul-let-d.c.-legalize-marijuana/article/2555685
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I don't need to hear about how Rand Paul respects local government as per your link. I already knew that. And I disagree that this is a troll blog post. It brings up the concept of enforcing federal laws like the Feds did after California legalized medical marijuana yet the feds raided many dispensaries in California. I don't take lives being ruined lightly in these raids. It's very serious and people have been fucked over by it. The people involved are not just statistics. The fed raids on legal grows and dispensaries in California were early in the Obama administration. When Holder announced that they would stop it, it was within the current admin's 2nd term. I'm not interested in supporting yet another president that will fuck people over a plant like Obama has. It is NOT trolling to question whether a Rand admin will keep enforcing federal laws.
 
fr33 said:
It is NOT trolling to question whether a Rand admin will keep enforcing federal laws.
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You're right.

But the Constitutional solution is to repeal that damned law. It's not like alcohol prohibition was--this isn't an amendment. Congress could repeal it in a day and the president could sign off on it by nightfall.

And I don't know that I've ever heard him say one way or the other, but I find it hard to imagine Ron Paul's son vetoing the bill that repeals marijuana prohibition.
 
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fr33 said:
It is NOT trolling to question whether a Rand admin will keep enforcing federal laws.
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He has weighed in on the issue. He might go back on what he said as President, but he has given his opinion and he also has a record on drug related issues.

And yes, this is the very definition of a troll blog post. There are no quotes saying he has changed his mind on marijuana enforcement. This had nothing to do with marijuana-at all. Not even a little bit. Not even remotely. One Congressman who wants to ban everything brought up marijuana. Even if the bill had passed, nothing would have been done to force states to comply with Federal drug laws. That wasn't what the bill was about at all. The whole point of the bill was to make it easier to get Obama to implement the individual mandate before the election.
 
acptulsa said:
You're right.

But the Constitutional solution is to repeal that damned law. It's not like alcohol prohibition was--this isn't an amendment. Congress could repeal it in a day and the president could sign off on it by nightfall.

And I don't know that I've ever heard him say one way or the other, but I find it hard to imagine Ron Paul's son vetoing the bill that repeals marijuana prohibition.
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If you've spent any time studying congress and marijuana, then you would know that rescheduling or legalizing just isn't a realistic proposal. That's what Rand is pandering to. Hopefully anyways. There is no support for it in congress. We need a president that refuses to enforce federal laws. That's why criticism is justified.
 
fr33 said:
If you've spent any time studying congress and marijuana, then you would know that rescheduling or legalizing just isn't a realistic proposal.
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If that's not a realistic proposal then liberty itself isn't a realistic proposal. Which is why we're here.

The temperance loons got prohibition passed as a constitutional amendment in order to convince people it couldn't be repealed and to convince them to give up before they even started. Didn't work.
 
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