So, why doesn't KY start planting 1000's of acres of hemp right now!

 

Good question.

5 years- 10-15 states

10 years- 20+ states

 

Unless Feds start enforcing Federal Law...then we could be back to zero

 

I believe that the states that are passing the laws have determined that these are states rights issues and the Federal government should not be involved in this business.

 

I also believe that the Federal government has determined that the enforcement of the existing Federal laws cost more than the potential damage on the backside. Otherwise the DEA/FBI and any other 3 letter fiefdom of the Federal government would have already kicked in doors and burned down warehouses to stop it.

Only a matter of time before it hits all 50 states.

 

I agree but I think it will go something in the mid 40s and there will be a handful of states that hold out for a long time.

 

In other words, Colorado and some others will be on to the next legalized drug before some states give the green light on the stink weed.

I believe that the states that are passing the laws have determined that these are states rights issues and the Federal government should not be involved in this business.

 

I also believe that the Federal government has determined that the enforcement of the existing Federal laws cost more than the potential damage on the backside. Otherwise the DEA/FBI and any other 3 letter fiefdom of the Federal government would have already kicked in doors and burned down warehouses to stop it.

 

A lot of states thought slavery was a states rights issue too. The enforcement of that issue was the most costly in human life in American history, thankfully they paid the price and didn't worry about potential damage or backlash.

 

I am NOT comparing the two, just stating that states rights is either a thing or it isn't. States and Washington should not pick and choose which laws to abide by and which to overlook.

 

Illinois currently has the highest Muslim population in the country, what if Illinois decided at some point in the future to enact Sharia Law legislatively and claimed states rights as the grounds to do so?

I agree but I think it will go something in the mid 40s and there will be a handful of states that hold out for a long time.

 

In other words, Colorado and some others will be on to the next legalized drug before some states give the green light on the stink weed.

 

I agree, I think it will be on more states than not over the next few years.

A lot of states thought slavery was a states rights issue too. The enforcement of that issue was the most costly in human life in American history, thankfully they paid the price and didn't worry about potential damage or backlash.

 

I am NOT comparing the two, just stating that states rights is either a thing or it isn't. States and Washington should not pick and choose which laws to abide by and which to overlook.

 

Illinois currently has the highest Muslim population in the country, what if Illinois decided at some point in the future to enact Sharia Law legislatively and claimed states rights as the grounds to do so?

 

Then Illinois wouldn't get any Federal Highway funds.

Alaskan River Cruise prices just skyrocketed.

The aurora borealis will never have looked better.

Then Illinois wouldn't get any Federal Highway funds.

 

So the lost of constitutional rights and freedoms would be OK, we just won't give them money to fix pot holes?

Isn't it in Alaska where the woman quit during her weather report on the news in order to fully get behind the legalization of marijuana?

 

Yes.

 

? I quit? reporter gives out pot to celebrate first day of legal recreational use

A lot of states thought slavery was a states rights issue too. The enforcement of that issue was the most costly in human life in American history, thankfully they paid the price and didn't worry about potential damage or backlash.

 

I am NOT comparing the two, just stating that states rights is either a thing or it isn't. States and Washington should not pick and choose which laws to abide by and which to overlook.

 

Illinois currently has the highest Muslim population in the country, what if Illinois decided at some point in the future to enact Sharia Law legislatively and claimed states rights as the grounds to do so?

Come on man, you are comparing apples and hammers here.

A lot of states thought slavery was a states rights issue too. The enforcement of that issue was the most costly in human life in American history, thankfully they paid the price and didn't worry about potential damage or backlash.

 

I am NOT comparing the two, just stating that states rights is either a thing or it isn't. States and Washington should not pick and choose which laws to abide by and which to overlook.

 

Illinois currently has the highest Muslim population in the country, what if Illinois decided at some point in the future to enact Sharia Law legislatively and claimed states rights as the grounds to do so?

 

States rights are still states rights. The reason the argument for states rights didn't hold during the Civil War was because the action of slavery infringed upon the personal freedom of the people (the oppressed) in this case. Same with a state attempting to enact Sharia..

 

As it relates to pure governing, with no impingement on the individual liberties of the people, decriminalizing or legalizing does not impinge on the individual civil liberties of the people as a whole. It, in fact, does the exact opposite, allows more individual freedom of choice.

 

I'm not saying that legalization doesn't have drawbacks, with anything that can be harmful there are considerations, but in the end, the government, state or federal, should not be in the position to dictate a broad brush ban without sufficient data to support protection of the people as a whole.

 

If the legalization of marijuana was such a significant threat to the people as a whole, then the jackboot feds would already have stopped it in...Colorado, Washington, etc....

In my line of work, I have had people abusing alcohol: cuss me, hit me, swing at me, spit on me, bite me and kick me and I have people overdose on every drug known to man (except Marijuana).

 

I have never had anyone on Marijuana do any of the above.

In my line of work, I have had people abusing alcohol: cuss me, hit me, swing at me, spit on me, bite me and kick me and I have people overdose on every drug known to man (except Marijuana).

 

I have never had anyone on Marijuana do any of the above.

 

They just steal your cookies. :clap:

They just steal your cookies. :clap:

 

Brownies are the snack of choice I do believe...

Yes.

 

? I quit? reporter gives out pot to celebrate first day of legal recreational use

 

 

Ha! I knew it.