Senator Ted Cruz attacks Obama for not locking up marijuana users in Colorado

[DonViejo]

By Eric W. Dolan
Friday, January 10, 2014 15:20 EST

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Friday criticized President Barack Obama for not arresting people in Colorado who violated federal law by using marijuana.

“A whole lot of folks now are talking about legalizing pot. The brownies you had this morning, provided by the state of Colorado,” he jokingly said during his keynote speech at Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Policy Orientation.

“And you can make arguments on that issue,” Cruz continued. “You can make reasonable arguments on that issue. The president earlier this past year announced the Department of Justice is going to stop prosecuting certain drug crimes. Didn’t change the law.”


Voters in Colorado and Washington state voted to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in 2013, but federal law still prohibits the use of the drug. The Department of Justice announced in August of 2013 that it would not target for arrest adults who used marijuana in compliance with state laws.

Cruz said the Obama administration should continue imprisoning people for using marijuana until federal law is changed.

“You can go to Congress, you can get a conversation, you could get Democrats and Republicans who would say, ‘We ought to change our drug policy in some way,’ and you could have a real conversation, you could have hearings, you could look at the problem, you could discuss commonsense changes that maybe should happen or shouldn’t happen. This president didn’t do that. He just said, ‘The laws say one thing’ — and mind you these are criminal laws, these are laws that say if you do ‘X, Y, and Z’ you will go to prison. The president announced, ‘No, you won’t.’”

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/10/senator-ted-cruz-attacks-obama-for-not-locking-up-marijuana-users-in-colorado/

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[hlthe2b]

1. Oh, yeah... that will gain him (Cruz) a lot of supporters...

Keep talking, moron.

[Politicalboi]

2. What happened to "States Law"

Don't the "people" know more about their state than some Canadian buffoon. What a hypocrite. He's willing to go state by state to get rid of abortion but doesn't want states to choose to legalize Marijuana.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

16. "States Rights" only applies to executing the mentally retarded and voter suppression

Like duh!

[Mr.Bill]

25. And don't forget

women's reproductive organs.

[VanillaRhapsody]

26. IOKIYAAR!

[louis-t]

3. Repugs all for states rights...

until they're not.

[Blue Owl]

4. Ted's got his finger on the pulse

[beachbum bob]

5. I guess states rights are onky

When it agrees with wacko conservative viewpoints

Lol lol lol

[Thinkingabout]

6. Does Cruz know he was elected to Congress and is in position of making laws?

I would be in favor of locking up Congressional Members who does not do their job and start with Cruz. It would solve a lot of problems.

[Kablooie]

9. The Republican's job is to eliminate laws, not create them. According to Republicans.

[Thinkingabout]

10. Then eliminate the law making marijuana illegal. He should write a bill to repeal the current one.

It's not about locking up anyone, Crus just throws $hit out to get to smell it.

[Paladin]

7. Sorry, I don't pay attention to Canadian opinions. (nt)

[Amonester]

32. Although, this Canadian opinion is, the Canadian law against Cannabis should be changed

but I don't expect the regressive (and also corrupt) harper government will ever do it.

And I don't consider ted $crews a Canadian (since when do Canadians can be US Senators?)

[Paladin]

36. We keep hearing what a simple thing it is to opt out of Canadian citizenship.

Considering he has a law degree from Harvard, it sure seems to be taking Cruz a long time to finalize things. Your gain is our loss.

[Kablooie]

8. Yeah! Lock up 100,000 people in Colorado. That will make America proud.

[RainDog]

11. So, Cruz, the House needs to do its job

Encourage your fellow Republicans to answer the legislation proposed by Polis and Blumenauer last year.

Let's get everyone on record to see where they stand on this issue.

http://polis.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=318723

The Republicans knew this moment was coming and they should've addressed the issues before the changes in the state laws were implemented.

I guess they were too busy with the attempt to get the U.S. to default on its debt. Even the freaking IMF thinks Republicans are too stupid to govern.

I'm sure they'll do the right thing on this issue too.

[Iceberg Louie]

12. Way to stick to your "principles", Teddy boy.

What happened to "individual liberty" or "personal freedom"? I guess if they don't feed into the overarching goal of a dominionist takeover of the U.S., the King of the Seventh Mountain is suddenly a fan of wasteful deficit spending and big government.

Golly, gee...

[nomorenomore08]

14. "Personal liberty" has only ever applied, in many people's minds, to white male Christians.

Which is why the whole concept, at least when invoked by right-wingers, is rather spurious.

[ailsagirl]

13. ....

[nomorenomore08]

15. I'm sure he'd also love to lock up "practicing" gays, and women who obtain abortions, and adulterers

and the list just goes on and on... Cruz is a Dominionist if I ever saw one.

[BobUp]

17. Being that Teddy is a member of the

TrEAsonous party, I would've thought that he'd be PRO state rights, without federal intervention, my, aren't we surprised....

[Tom Rinaldo]

18. Proof that his end game isn't to be elected President

Cruz is using the guise of potential presidential aspirations the same way that Palin and Trump do, to bolster his public profile and fortify the cottage industry that can be described as being Ted Cruz. You don't go out of your way out on a limb to alienate the majority of Americans who now support legalizing marijuana, a majority that all reason suggests will only get larger in coming years. in order to advance your presidential aspirations. You only do that to advance your Glenn Beck aspirations. Cruz wants to be the go to guy for the core hard right minority in America, with all of the long term financial benefits that come with that.

[SmittynMo]

19. Why is this idiot still on someone's radar.

Maybe if Teddy boy would light up a doobie, he'd change his mind. Nope, can't do that, or he'd be arrested and put in prison.

[JoePhilly]

20. Is Ted high?

[SmittynMo]

22. Ask Nancy Grace. She knows all.

Grace is not a fan of the law, telling Baldwin she thinks that legalizing marijuana for recreational use is a "horrible idea." Grace said that she wouldn't want anyone on pot to take care of her kids or drive a cab. She then went for the jugular, claiming that anyone who disagreed with her was "lethargic, sitting on the sofa, eating chips ... fat and lazy."

Sure sounds like him to me

[dionysus]

23. did her nostrils flare and swallow baldwin whole?

[Douglas Carpenter]

21. knr

[Cha]

24. AttentionWhore=scruz.

[MADem]

27. Deport that bum to Canada! nt

[Amonester]

33. No-oh-oh-oh!!

To Somalia, please, or to Mars!!

[MADem]

37. Back to where he came from....Canada will have to send him along if they don't want to keep him!

I find it hilarious that this guy, a Senator, a lawmaker, thinks dumping his Canadian citizenship is a "complicated" process--it isn't!

[freethought]

28. If there is ANYONE

Who could use a good long draw on some top grade skunk, it's Ted Cruz. Hey, it would be safer than downing that straight Everclear he used to drink in college! It might actually make him tolerable! Someone send that guy a bong! ASAP!

Maybe he should try dropping some acid too.

[left on green only]

29. The Man Is One Shrewd Sucker

I think all of his words were geared to the intellect of his audience. I mean give him a little credit. He is a Rhodes Scholar. Think of an evil version of Rachel Maddow. Yeah, I know. Pretty scary.

[NCLefty]

35. The comparison is too good for him.

She brings evidence when she makes a case. He makes shit up :p

[left on green only]

39. Good Point! And Well Taken. n/c

[workinclasszero]

30. But but Canadian Cruz!!! States rights!?

The nazis always out themselves with pot, gays and religious freedom for their dominionist fascist fake christian cult only.

[Coyotl]

31. What would Canada do?

Just wondering if being a Canadian informs his considerable opinion.

[NCLefty]

34. You're driving the wrong way down a one-way street again, Ted.

This guy is still (and only) talking to his donor base. Nobody else is going to be following him any time soon after his shutdown debacle. The poll numbers for legalization are soon going to be as high as they were for NOT shutting down the government, which he did anyway.

Fail.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

38. So basically, Captain freedom here is advocating against..... what's the word

I'm looking for here?.... Hmmmmm oh yeah FUCKING FREEDOM!!

[sakabatou]

40. Isn't Cruz into "states rights?"

[PassingFancy]

41. Cruz Is Even More Evil Than Joe McCarthy Was

And, yes, I said that - I know how evil McCarthy was and I also know that Cruz is much more evil than McCarthy could have ever thought of being. Cruz knows absolutely nothing. He and his kind think that everyone who smokes pot, has sex in anything other than the missionary position, has sex with anyone other than an opposite gender spouse, anyone who wants birth control pills, anyone who might want an abortion, anyone who wants public education to teach facts not religious fantasies, and the list goes on and on for about a million miles, are the truly evil people in the world and shouldn't be allowed to do anything. Yeah, I know, that was a run-on sentence without proper punctuation (lol).

I just wish there was some way that we could rid this nation totally once and for all of all of these cretins of the right wing, especially the teabaggers. They are all useless wastes of space.