Constitutional ban on legal pot advances in Idaho

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

As legal weed becomes a reality in every corner of the U.S., Idaho is putting up a fight.

State lawmakers on Friday moved forward with a proposed constitutional amendment that would bar the legalization of marijuana in Idaho in an attempt to keep the growing nationwide acceptance of the drug from seeping across its borders.

Idaho is one of only three states without some sort of policy allowing residents to possess products with even low amounts of THC, the psychoactive chemical in marijuana. Residents can cross the state border in nearly every direction and find themselves in a place where marijuana can be bought for recreational or medicinal purposes. Support for medicinal marijuana use is growing among some residents — with legalization activists trying to get an initiative on the state ballot in 2022.

It's made some lawmakers in the deep-red state nervous, particularly after voters in the neighboring state of Oregon decriminalized the personal possession of drugs like heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine last November.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/constitutional-ban-medical-recreational-pot-advances-75565989?cid=clicksource_4380645_5_heads_hero_live_headlines_hed

[Turbineguy]

1. Mellowing out

the RWNJ's is a threat.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Uneducated Idaho lawmakers need to study the 18th and 21st Amendments to the US Constitution. nt

[12over]

8. doesnt really matter

Local laws can still ban sales. There are dry counties when it comes to alcohol. Same can apply to weed. It can be banned on a local level. If that level is an entire state, so be it. That is up the people of Idaho. Just another reason not to go to Idaho.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. You miss the point. Not legality but futility.

It's not their constitutionality. They can make state laws and local laws.

The point is that their Constitutional Amendment will be as pointless as the Prohibition's two Constitutional Amendments.

Same will happen to theirs if it is ever adopted.

[LeftInTX]

13. If Idaho is like Texas, no big deal to amend the constitution

They can ban it one cycle, then turn around and create another referendum that bans the ban.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. In the meantime ordinary people get swept up and have lives upended. . . . . nt

[BlueIdaho]

19. Been an Idaho resident for 68 years.

Our constitution has not been amended as long as I’ve been here. Let’s hope this dumb ass bill along with the legislatures desire to strip emergency declarations away form the governor are both non-starters.

FWIW - this is all coming from southern Idaho and it’s anti-masker Mormon potato farmer legislators.

[LeftInTX]

21. Oh, then very different than Texas. Our's is amended every 2 years!

[BlueIdaho]

22. Different, but not better...

We are still a ruby red state now tilting towards the QAnon cult.

[Delphinus]

26. Thanks

for the facts from a local.

[stillcool]

3. wow. They just keep going backwards..

to what end? The big bang?

[3Hotdogs]

4. So much for limited gub'mint and individual freedom.

[SeattleVet]

5. They afraid that legal weed will cut into their meth and moonshine profits?

I don't think that they have a firm grasp on the types of consumers they are dealing with.

[yaesu]

6. We need to start boycotting these fascist states, stop visiting, doing business with or buy products

from them until the people wake up & decide its just not profitable voting for fascists. I for one will no longer buy products from nor spend a dime in any red state.

[orangecrush]

30. This

Hold the potatoes, please.

[Karma13612]

7. When their economy tanks

Due to COVID, I wonder if they will re-think this little move.

We have been having a tough time getting to Legalized Recreational Marijuana in NYS.

But, since the economy has been hurting in NY due to COVID, now Cuomo is saying legalization needs to pass this year (or so I read somewhere a short while ago).

Makes sense since the revenue from sales will be a huge boost to the state.

[ret5hd]

9. Yeah, I was thinking...

"Go ahead...all your neighboring states say 'Thank You!'"

[Karma13612]

10. Ha ha!

That too!!

[ret5hd]

11. Based on my experience living in states with (alcohol) dry counties...

just about 10 feet past the state line on every highway, road, route, dirt road, mountain goat trail, hiking path, and rabbit run there will be a shiny dispensary with flashing neon arrows and a well lit parking lot within the next year.

If you want practically a sure money bet, invest in LED and neon sign companies, and paving tar companies in the area.

[Karma13612]

28. Sounds

Like better investments than the stock market!!!!

[The Wizard]

29. One of the reasons alcohol Prohibition

was turned over was States needed revenue because the Depression radically cut into State treasuries.

[trc]

15. Idaho relies on private prisons to house criminals it seems.

That might explain the reluctance to legalize...bad for business.

[Tommymac]

20. This is spot on.

[Ford_Prefect]

16. The Stupid really does run quite deep on this one. Like when the GOP dominant NC legislature banned

any state agency from predicting tides that were higher than historical references. We said it was denying nature and gravity to do so. They said it is OUR Legislature and we'll do as we please. We said it won't be the Rapture that swamps expensive sea-side properties, it will be hurricanes and rising tides in general, much as the record suggests. They said "You're making it up and have no proof."

The clowns in Idaho don't believe science is true. They think it is an elitist opinion. They are so stupid about some of this that it's a wonder they make it across the street in light traffic as they head for the local bar... And some of them really do think God is Their Witness, as if GOD were only available for Idaho GOP functions.

[mysteryowl]

17. I think some lawmakers need to try a special gummy bear.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. Don't they always whine when someone "takes away freedumbs"????

[PatrickforO]

23. They sure are on the wrong side of history.

Prohibitions have never, do not now, and will never work. Ever.

[marlakay]

24. People can get pot legally in WA and OR

And bring to Idaho so they must be hoping to stick people in jail for that.

[Teddy Beer]

25. King Canute

Then again, what can one expect from a state with such a fucked-up shape?

[Yavin4]

27. And then states like these wonder why they cannot attract talented workers to work and live there.

Today's best workers like to live and work in places where the govt cannot put you in jail for smoking a joint.

[SunSeeker]

31. Idiocy! They can't ban liberals so they think this is the next best thing.

[Nitram]

32. We like it here in the Stone Age. Leave us alone!

[maxsolomon]

33. Oh, Idaho, you are so amazing and beautiful

and you are filled with many many utter fools.

Get better. Love, your neighbor to the west.