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BIGSKYER Wrote: Jan 08, 2013 3:00 PM
So this means, states don't have the authority to prohibit DUI, and like my state, smoking in public places, and an open container law? Legalizing drugs to rob the pusher of profits? Does this mean US drug manufacturers would suddenly be dropping the prices of their products due to competition from Canada. and elsewhere?
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johnm h Wrote: Jan 08, 2013 12:11 PM
While true, taking on the commerce clause over drugs is a loser.
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Corbett_ Wrote: Jan 08, 2013 11:38 AM
Nor do they have the authority to stop people from growing or manufacturing it.
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Forty-odd (exceedingly odd, I might add) years ago, who would have envisioned a national war against drugs? Nobody took drugs -- nobody you knew, nobody but jazz musicians and funny foreign folk. Then, after a while, it came to seem that everybody did. Drugs became a new front in the war on an old social culture that was taking hard licks aplenty in those days.
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