pentupentropy
02-24-2008, 11:37 PM
For all of those who want drugs legalized, it's already here.
In the past week, Governor Spitzer proposed that NY State join 20some other states in the union to tax drugs like marijuana and cocaine. Seems stupid doesn't it? Until you realize that NO DRUG is illegal under the right circumstances, and a good deal of laws surrounding drugs has to do with the lack of a license. For years states have simply kept drugs illegal by use of laws like "possession of a controlled substance"
Break that down for what it means. You're basically being arrested because you're not authorized to deal with that substance. These are usually controlled by licensing through the state. So if you live in a state where these "taxes" are already in place, you can actually get a license to deal them and there has been precedence in courts of cases being thrown out because the person arrested had the proper paperwork to distribute these substances... and no I don't mean California, although that would probably be the leader.
*A side note... the federal government's ruling over the California medicinal marijuana laws is completely unconstitutional, as the laws dealing with these substances are solely under state jurisdiction. Yet another reason Ron Paul should be president.
In the past week, Governor Spitzer proposed that NY State join 20some other states in the union to tax drugs like marijuana and cocaine. Seems stupid doesn't it? Until you realize that NO DRUG is illegal under the right circumstances, and a good deal of laws surrounding drugs has to do with the lack of a license. For years states have simply kept drugs illegal by use of laws like "possession of a controlled substance"
Break that down for what it means. You're basically being arrested because you're not authorized to deal with that substance. These are usually controlled by licensing through the state. So if you live in a state where these "taxes" are already in place, you can actually get a license to deal them and there has been precedence in courts of cases being thrown out because the person arrested had the proper paperwork to distribute these substances... and no I don't mean California, although that would probably be the leader.
*A side note... the federal government's ruling over the California medicinal marijuana laws is completely unconstitutional, as the laws dealing with these substances are solely under state jurisdiction. Yet another reason Ron Paul should be president.