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jmowreader

(50,557 posts) Sun May 14, 2023, 08:47 PM May 2023

I don't know why someone hasn't tried this...

Apparently gun laws are bad because we didn't have gun laws at the founding of the Republic, and as we all know no one can ever make any new laws.

Why hasn't anyone tried to get the marijuana laws overturned based on the theory that weed was legal in the United States until the early 20th Century? Marijuana is a LOT less lethal than guns! It was used as a medication way back when.

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I don't know why someone hasn't tried this... (Original Post) jmowreader May 2023 OP

There's no Constitutional right to use marijuana. J_William_Ryan May 2023 #1

Quite different Timewas May 2023 #2

Yeah I think I read this idea in every issue of HighTimes magazine. edisdead May 2023 #3

J_William_Ryan

(1,753 posts)

1. There's no Constitutional right to use marijuana.

Reply to jmowreader (Original post)

Sun May 14, 2023, 08:55 PM

May 2023

But that argument would work with regard to the right to privacy and reproductive autonomy.

Abortion wasn’t criminalized until the 1880s.

Yet another manifestation of the hypocrisy of the right.

Timewas

(2,193 posts)

2. Quite different

Reply to jmowreader (Original post)

Sun May 14, 2023, 09:56 PM

May 2023

Lot of difference between a law and a constitutional amendment.

edisdead

(1,925 posts)

3. Yeah I think I read this idea in every issue of HighTimes magazine.

Reply to jmowreader (Original post)

Sun May 14, 2023, 10:53 PM

May 2023

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