Tucker Carlson: Marijuana legalization is a socialist conspiracy to dumb down America

[dillo]

To quote the great Clarence Thomas

Respondents Diane Monson and Angel Raich use marijuana that has never been bought or sold, that has never crossed state lines, and that has had no demonstrable effect on the national market for marijuana. If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything—and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.

Respondent's local cultivation and consumption of marijuana is not "Commerce ... among the several States."

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Certainly no evidence from the founding suggests that "commerce" included the mere possession of a good or some personal activity that did not involve trade or exchange for value. In the early days of the Republic, it would have been unthinkable that Congress could prohibit the local cultivation, possession, and consumption of marijuana.

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If the Federal Government can regulate growing a half-dozen cannabis plants for personal consumption (not because it is interstate commerce, but because it is inextricably bound up with interstate commerce), then Congress' Article I powers – as expanded by the Necessary and Proper Clause – have no meaningful limits. Whether Congress aims at the possession of drugs, guns, or any number of other items, it may continue to "appropria[te] state police powers under the guise of regulating commerce."

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If the majority is to be taken seriously, the Federal Government may now regulate quilting bees, clothes drives, and potluck suppers throughout the 50 States. This makes a mockery of Madison's assurance to the people of New York that the "powers delegated" to the Federal Government are "few and defined", while those of the States are "numerous and indefinite."

emphasis on the bold being mine

 

[enhanced_deficit]

This if confirmed as non-fakenews would drill a hole in theories that Tucker was a libertarian-neocon.

 

[Anti Globalist]

I'm more for decriminalization than legalization.

 

[Grandmastersexsay]

I'm more for decriminalization than legalization.

Why?

 

[jct74]

Tucker says Republicans (?) want to make it easier for your kids to smoke weed, because hey "freedom". And Democrats are in total agreement.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djv_neI6n_4



My question is, what the heck is Tucker smoking lately?

 

[nikcers]

Yeah I think Tucker doesn't care about freedom and liberty the way he joked about it on his show. I can't take anything seriously he says anymore now.

 

[RestorationOfLiberty]

What happened to Tucker? He sounds like a nutjob in this video and seems to have abandoned his libertarian principles.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDvQsfQvS4Y

Well if it is Tucker, why not let the marxist voters smoke themselves stupid?

 

[r3volution 3.0]

Yeah I think Tucker doesn't care about freedom and liberty the way he jokeed about it on his show. I can't take anything seriously he says anymore now.

Tucker isn't a small government person, never has been.

He's an economically illiterate, vaguely socially conservative TV character who says nice things about the GOP in exchange for money.

 

[nikcers]

Tucker Carlson pretends to care about the opioid crisis even though CBD could help people actually get off opioids. That tells you right there he doesn't really care about people he just wants to pander to people who care about the opioid crisis.

 

[nikcers]

Tucker isn't a small government person, never has been.

He's an economically illiterate, vaguely socially conservative TV character who says nice things about the GOP in exchange for money.

Yeah but I watched some interviews recently where he was being anti war and I had some hopes but his whole perspective on the role of government is upside down. Tucker Carlson wants a king kind of like you.

 

[Dr.3D]

Why?

Typically, legalization means government control and regulation, whereas decriminalization means, no government control or regulation at all.

Drugs should be decriminalized. It should be none of the business of government what people wish to ingest into their own bodies.

 

[r3volution 3.0]

Yeah but I watched some interviews recently where he was being anti war and I had some hopes but his whole perspective on the role of government is upside down.

He is fairly anti-war, I'll give him that.

But he's also a violent opponent of the market economy and individual liberty.

...and, even on war, he rarely criticizes the current (GOP) adminstration's policies.

...kind of like how the Dems criticized Bush's wars (until Obama arrived and did the exact same thing, at which point the cat got their tongues).

Tucker Carlson wants a king kind of like you.

...?

He's constantly bitching about how we don't have "true democracy."

Apparently, in his view (or script), the problem is that the illiterate rabble don't have enough influence.

This is why, for instance, the government hasn't yet created a Dept. of Social Media to regulate Tucker's arch-enemies..

 

[nikcers]

He is fairly anti-war, I'll give him that.

But he's also a violent opponent of the market economy and individual liberty.

...and, even on war, he rarely criticizes the current (GOP) adminstration's policies.

...kind of like how the Dems criticized Bush's wars (until Obama arrived and did the exact same thing, at which point the cat got their tongues).



...?

He's constantly bitching about how we don't have "true democracy."

Apparently, in his view (or script), the problem is that the illiterate rabble don't have enough influence.

This is why, for instance, the government hasn't yet created a Dept. of Social Media to regulate Tucker's arch-enemies..

Maybe he just wants people to vote for a king, He wants people not to want to be free, that's why he advocates against liberty.

 

[r3volution 3.0]

Maybe he just wants people to vote for a king

Given his regular paeans to democracy, and claims that the lack of it is the cause of all our problems, I can't imagine why you'd think that.

He wants people not to want to be free, that's why he advocates against liberty.

FOX pays good money for people to advocate against liberty, without appearing to do so; I'd say he's just supplying demand.

 

[jct74]

Tucker says Republicans (?) want to make it easier for your kids to smoke weed, because hey "freedom". And Democrats are in total agreement.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djv_neI6n_4



My question is, what the heck is Tucker smoking lately?

I'm still trying to figure out what Tucker is talking about when he says the Republican elites are "resolutely libertarian" and they support cannabis legalization. It is true that a majority of Republican voters now support legalization, but among Republican politicians it is still pretty rare and especially within the Republican "leadership class". I don't know what he is referring to... maybe Mitch McConnell's newfound love for hemp but that is a totally different thing, lol.

 

[nikcers]

I'm still trying to figure out what Tucker is talking about when he says the Republican elites are "resolutely libertarian" and they support cannabis legalization. It is true that a majority of Republican voters now support legalization, but among Republican politicians it is still pretty rare and especially within the Republican "leadership class". I don't know what he is referring to... maybe Mitch McConnell's newfound love for hemp but that is a totally different thing, lol.

I think he is talking about John Boehner and all of the people investing into Marijuana because its a huge industry that is helping the economy grow and giving people jobs and Tucker Carlson obviously loves people to be homeless.

 

[jct74]

I think he is talking about John Boehner and all of the people investing into Marijuana because its a huge industry that is helping the economy grow and giving people jobs and Tucker Carlson obviously loves people to be homeless.

yeah he could be talking about Boehner but someone should tell Tucker he hasn't been in office since 2015, lol.

Typically, legalization means government control and regulation, whereas decriminalization means, no government control or regulation at all.

Drugs should be decriminalized. It should be none of the business of government what people wish to ingest into their own bodies.

That's not how the term is most commonly understood though, at least in the context of cannabis policy. Cannabis in considered to be decriminalized in 15 states but I guarantee you are less free in those states than ones that have legalized. In most legalization states you can grow at least a half dozen plants in your home but in a lot of decriminalization states growing only a few plants still counts as a felony.

 

[dannno]

Typically, legalization means government control and regulation, whereas decriminalization means, no government control or regulation at all.

Drugs should be decriminalized. It should be none of the business of government what people wish to ingest into their own bodies.

Actually in most cases, decriminalization refers to decriminalization of possession. That can mean a fine for possession as opposed to jail time and a criminal record, but still mean hard time for growing or selling.

Legalizing is a bit better in that sense, because possession, growing and distribution all have legal channels and no fines or criminal penalties for adults who possess it.

Total decriminalization of the plant would be awesome, but that is not what cannabis decriminalization typically refers to.

 

[AngryCanadian]

Tucker is actually right on this issue.
When junkies started using the dopes they have no self control on them, they become addicted, this is becoming a problem now in Canada and in some cities in Canada. With Junkies walking on the streets and tripping down. During day time.

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

Sometimes I think I'm the last person in the U.S. that doesn't smoke anything, drinks maybe once a year, and takes no prescription meds.