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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 02:17 PM
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Freeps Waking Up! Their comments on USSC's Pot Decision:
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Where does it say that in the Constitution? It should be up to the elected representatives of each state to make these laws not the Court. Another attempt by the court to take over the country.



15 posted on 06/06/2005 7:22:45 AM PDT by YOUGOTIT
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs; All
This ruling gives me bad mojo..



16 posted on 06/06/2005 7:23:03 AM PDT by KevinDavis (the space/future belongs to the eagles, the earth/past to the groundhogs)
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Nice of those justices to remind us that we live in a federal police state.

I can't wait for the public backlash that will follow if the federal government decides to start martyring patients over this decision.



17 posted on 06/06/2005 7:23:14 AM PDT by seacapn
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
It will be interesting to see what their Constitutional justification is. A strict reading of the Constitution would not only show that the federales have no authority to rule on marijuana, but that they have no authority over any drugs whether pharmaceutical or recreational. That's one of the powers which "are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people".

18 posted on 06/06/2005 7:23:25 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Republicans and Democrats no longer exist. There are only Fabian and revolutionary socialists.)
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To: Wolfie
Well, I guess they'll need to ban painkillers next.
Damn the sick people. FULL WoD AHEAD!


19 posted on 06/06/2005 7:23:43 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The Republican Party is the France of politics.)
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To: YOUGOTIT
Constitution? They don't need no steenkin' Constitution!



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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 02:20 PM
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1. Quick! Get them another glass of the Kool-Aid!
They'll be back on the bandwagon in just a minute
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kaitykaity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 02:25 PM
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2. "And who runs the federal govermnent, dumbasses?"
Somebody should ask them that.

I know, excuses, excuses. but still. It'd be
fun to see their heads explode.
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Freedom_from_Chains Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 02:25 PM
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3. JimRob may have to do another purge today> n/t
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pocket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 02:58 PM
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7. That Jim Robinson guy is actually pro-decriminalization
Weird, I know. I've definitely seen him quoted a few times on the subject.

I guess it's about federalism.

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Freedom_from_Chains Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 08:39 PM
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9. It's hard to say, these people change like the weather
They are state rights advocates when it suits their purpose, and federal rights advocates when it doesn't
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 02:28 PM
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4. Sounds like FR has Libertarian Lurkers
Do they make Libertarians wear special tags?
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1monster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 02:38 PM
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5. Just wait until they find out what the government has planned for OTC
cold remedies such as sudafed. The Feds want to make it back into a prescription drug... and since they have banned phynolpropanolamine (which was OTC for thirty years) for dubious reasons (my doctor ranted over that one), there are no other OTC decongestants out there that are anywhere near as effective.

In this state, we are already restricted to buying no more than two boxes of sudafed (or store brand of the same) per shopping trip...
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rox63 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 02:46 PM
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6. I think that's for a different reason
Sudafed can be used to make crystal meth.
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1monster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 03:36 PM
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8. So? The FDA has taken many, many old remedies off the OTC shelf
in the last twenty years for dubious reasons. Remember Terpin Hydrate? That stuff really worked on a cold and cough, but the FDA told the drug companies that they had to prove how it worked or take it off the market. The drug companies decided that it was not cost effective to run the studies needed (terpin hydrate was not a high profit margin otc drug), thus it is gone.

The same thing happened to many other OTC drugs that are no longer available. Remember paragoric. You can't even get that through prescription anymore.

Benzdrex inhalers were taken off the market for several years because the tubes could be used to inhale cocaine.

Are we to assume that three packs of sudafed is enough to make methanphetamines in large quantities?

Give me a break. I live in Allergy Alley. Pseudophederine is the only thing that keeps me and my family going in tree pollen season. If the trend keeps up, we won't be able to get it in prescription form either.

The war on drugs has been an abysmal failure; it is having too much of an impact on non-drug abusers and very little impact on drug abusers.

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