Can you give me a thesis for legalizing marijuana?
"The current drug laws are doing more harm than good. Legalizing marijuana would benefit the country in many ways." There is your thesis. Then you support it by stating the ways in which the country would benefit from legalization. For example, legalization would: - Create thousands of jobs - Deal a massive blow to drug cartels, which would suddenly be without 75% of their income - Provide an enormous windfall for the government, which would bring in billions in taxes and SAVE billions more on law enforcement (ending Prohibition played a big part in getting the U.S. out of the Great Depression) - Allow police, courts and prisons to focus their resources on DANGEROUS criminals, rather than potheads Here are some articles you can cite: http://www.economist.com/opinion/display... http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/... http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl... I hope that helps. Good luck on your essay!
On what grounds could a person argue that possession of illegal narcotics should be a protected right, especially if it involves preservation of life, or as a medicine that would help alleviate illness or disease?
If this question is about medical marijuana, then it all depends on the local and federal laws. In a state where medical marijuana is illegal, possession is a misdemeanor/felony, depending on the amount. End of discussion. If a person is accused of possession and seeks to defends him or herself with the argument that their marijuana is for medicinal purposes, they will fail; the law is clear on the matter, and though a judge or a jury may sympathize, the final veredict will take in consideration if the law was broken, not if someone didn't mean to break it.Any other narcotic that is intended for health treatment already is defended by the law, as others have stated. All you need is your doctor's Rx. Go read the bill of rights. Sober. MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISCLAIMER via Mark Rigotti (read comment) Clinics/dispenseries... are required to report all income and are not allowed to deduct any associated expenses under federal law. Why? Medical Marijuana is still illegal under the federal law. A felony to possess.
What are your thoughts on medical marijuana patients losing their gun rights?
I’m a former Army soldier and former police officer so I’m just a little bit familiar with guns and the law. I am now retired and a full time medical marijuana user. I am not a gun nut or 2nd Amendment crazy (“You can’t take MY guns!”} My answer has nothing to do with any notion that the government is going to take everyone’s guns (though it would probably be a good start) or that I need a gun to protect myself from some imaginary invader or a rogue government that has artillery and attack aircraft. My answer is simple common sense based on my experience.Like any other group of people, pot smokers are not monolithic. I am speaking in the sense of the majority as there will always be outliers who “ruin it for everybody.” With that said, I have never, ever met anyone who wanted to play with a gun when they are stoned. It is the antithesis of what most people want to do when they are stoned. If you throw in some other drugs such as alcohol or crystal meth, then we’re not talking about marijuana use anymore.Based on THC showing up in a person’s blood that has committed a crime with a gun, I seriously doubt that the marijuana had anything to do with that person committing the crime (again, there are outliers). So restricting gun rights based on marijuana use alone is just plain stupid. Restricting that person’s gun rights because he committed a crime with a gun is a full speed ahead smart thing to do.Just remember that the gun rights advocates see their “rights” as all or nothing which is just about as stupid as being a gun rights advocate in the first place. Considering the incredibly high number of gun deaths in this country, particularly compared to other countries who have much, much more restrictive gun laws than the United States and subsequently lower gun death rates, we are pretty much the pariah on the world stage when it comes to gun violence. As someone who has carried and shot a vast array of guns over my life as a citizen and as a professional, I will never understand the US refusal to eliminate the one thing that killed 40,000 people in 2018. How someone can be so selfish about something when that particular something was used to slaughter school children, concert goers and people praying in their chosen congregations is beyond logical thinking. ‘Murica loves its guns more than life itself.
Why does having a medical marijuana card keep me from obtaining a concealed carry permit?
Because you are in violation of federal law.And if you have a medical marijuana card, in order to even purchase a firearm from an FFL, you must lie on the 4473 on the question regarding you being a user of a controlled substance. Which is a federal felony.Because even in states that have legalized marijuana, it’s still illegal because federal law supercedes state law. You can make state law more strict then federal law, you just can’t make it more lax then federal law.All the legalization means is that local cops (going all the way up to state law enforcement officers) can’t and won’t arrest you for possessing pot and using it. But federal law enforcement can and will arrest you for pot or grow ops.As such, you can not legally be in possession of both pot and a firearm at the same time, as your use of pot makes you a prohibited person. Therefore, the state can’t legally issue you a concealed carry permit as you’re not even supposed to have a gun in the first place. MMCs and concealed carry permits can not, at the moment, share the same wallet.And I would like to make this clear: I do not agree with the federal government’s current stance on weed, much in the same way I don’t agree with the NFA. I believe they have no business outlawing it and you should be able to grow it in the front yard and flip off DEA agents as they pass by your house and see your weed op. But they’re both still law and breaking either can and will get me arrested, so I follow it even if I do believe it’s unconstitutional.
If you smell marijuana being smoked by a neighbor in their backyard, should you notify the police?
Wow. Who died and made you the evil cop? Smoking marijuana used to be legal for thousands of years until someone thought of a bigger scheme to support a prison system that did nothing but made US the laughing stock on earth with the highest prisoners count on planet earth. Like they say, good fences made good neighbors, if the fence wouldn't block out the smell then walk inside. Your neighbors are smoking in the privacy of their backyard and you should respect that. That's the law defining property lines so people can enjoy a private life as long as they are not cooking up meth or made their houses into drug factories. Also, please take in consideration that USA is changing its views about marijuana. Colorado, Oregon, Alaska, Washington has legalized the use of cannabis and they are being followed by many others. California has long allowing medical marijuana as a pain relieve medicine for cancer patients. Please spare the law enforcement and personal embarrassment calling the police. Personally, I know of a few friends in the law enforcement who smoke regularly to relieve job stress. I have been around people who are smokers for several decades and never once I see them hurting anybody. It's time to get the record straight that smoking marijuana is not a real crime but a scapegoat of the so called "War on drugs" that has done more harm than good for the society. Scandinavians were smart of never banning marijuana. Now that's what I called a developed country with developed minds.
Why are alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine legal drugs and marijuana an illegal drug? ?
because you can't tax marijuana... and the public has largely accepted it's illegal status as the status quo.. If it were legal...any burn-out with more than two functional brain cells can grow a marijuana plant in bad soil.... why would anyone need to buy it ? Tobacco is not easy at all to grow...and only grows in certain climates, good soil. Big tobacco has been the biggest road block to legalization...they veiw marijuana as a safer non-addictive alternative to tobacco...they've lobbied against ever peice of propopsed legalization...even medical marijuana. It should be legalized for the same reason alcohol was legalized in the 30's... Because being illegal it creates a black market, organized crime, and a sub culture of second class citizens..
How do I turn someone in for misuse of Medical Marijuana?
Mind your own business. There is no such thing as "overdose" when discussing medical marijuana; not one example in history of any death resulting from "overdose". You ask how you can know "these people aren't paying the police". Answer: you can't. Alcohol prohibition resulted in the corruption of law enforcement from the beat cops up through the judiciary. The War on Drugs does the same. Best way to look at it is to ask yourself a simple question: Why be a snitch? Why is it your business, right or responsibility to judge and punish the peaceful behavior of others? Sure there is corruption in government and medical marijuana is a government heavy "solution" to a very real problem. The problem is not "drugs" and the "solution" is not a War on Drugs and more snitches. The issue is that some people wish to align themselves with a mob, government, and use the force of that mob to control the peaceful behavior of others. Turning people in is not a solution, it's a continuation of the problem. Mind your own business.
Is medical Marijuana Legal in Bora Bora or is it at least decriminalized?
Bora Bora is an island in the Pacific Ocean that is owned by France and France has not decriminalized Marijuana or even regonized it's potential medical use (for which you need a prescription for anyway in the USA and those aren't reconized from State to State) "Cultivating, selling, owning or consuming cannabis is prohibited.[43]"-Wikipedia funny what a simple websearch can do for you, it's almost as if google and wikipedia were part of the dark net seing as people refuse to use them or don't aknowledge their practicality...
Why does federal law allowing gay marriage supersede state laws prohibiting it, while state laws supersede the second amendment by restricting gun rights?
State laws do not supersede the Second Amendment. In McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Supreme Court ruled that city ordinances banning handguns were unconstitutional, even though authorized by state law.You’re confusing the question of which governmental bodies may violate a constitutional right (none can) with where the boundaries of a constitutional right are.With same-sex marriage, neither the states nor the federal government may forbid all people of the same sex to marry, because of the 14th amendment. But the 14th amendment does not necessarily invalidate either state or federal laws forbidding a man to marry his own brother, or to marry another man while one of them is already married to someone else. In other words, there are some same-sex marriages that are not protected by the 14th Amendment.Likewise, neither the states nor the federal government may forbid handguns outright, or even the storage of loaded handguns in the home, because of the 2nd Amendment. But the 2nd Amendment does not necessarily invalidate either state or federal laws prohibiting gun ownership by the mentally ill, as the Supreme Court said in D.C. v. Heller. In other words, there are some gun restrictions that are not forbidden by the 2nd Amendment.So, with either a same-sex marriage law or a gun control law, the question is whether the law transgresses the bounds set by the Constitution, not whether it is the state or the federal government that is making the law. No court today would ever find that the same law violates the 2nd Amendment when passed by the federal government, but doesn’t violate it when passed by a state. There was a time when most legal scholars believed that Presser v. Illinois allowed states to violate the 2nd Amendment, but McDonald destroyed that theory.