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Pot or not? Busts highlight growing confusion over hemp

Glitch said:
There is no such thing as a "reasonable" tax. All taxation is theft, therefore all taxation is excessive. We allow it because it is a necessary evil, but that doesn't make it even remotely "reasonable."

There are also black market cigarettes sold in all 50 States because every State has imposed draconian taxes on the product.

Legalization is the creation of new laws. Decriminalization is the repeal of all laws that makes a substance illegal or criminal. Legalization expands the size and scope of government. Decriminalization reduces the size and scope of government.
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Thank you for offering your opinion on the difference between legalization and decriminalization. I would beg to differ.

The mess created by legislations such as the Controlled Substances Act, and its predecessors like Harrison of 1914, can be remedied easily by repealing the offending legislation. That, after all, is the purpose of the repeal mechanism.

Call it legalization, call it decriminalization, call it what you want, but it is repeal, just as the Volstead Act was repealed, along with its amendment counterpart.

As for taxes, the logical extension of your claim that all taxes are unreasonable would be we should end the government, because taxes are what support it.

I would also disagree that cigarette taxes are unreasonable or prohibitive in all 50 states.
 
Thoreau72 said:
Thank you for offering your opinion on the difference between legalization and decriminalization. I would beg to differ.

The mess created by legislations such as the Controlled Substances Act, and its predecessors like Harrison of 1914, can be remedied easily by repealing the offending legislation. That, after all, is the purpose of the repeal mechanism.

Call it legalization, call it decriminalization, call it what you want, but it is repeal, just as the Volstead Act was repealed, along with its amendment counterpart.
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If they are repealing a criminal law that is the very definition of decriminalization. To decriminalize something.

Legalization is always about enacting new laws, never repealing. If you wish to impose a VAT on marijuana, for example, a law must be enacted. Legalization increases the size and scope of government. Exactly the opposite of decriminalization. It is important to get the terminology correct.

Thoreau72 said:
As for taxes, the logical extension of your claim that all taxes are unreasonable would be we should end the government, because taxes are what support it.

I would also disagree that cigarette taxes are unreasonable or prohibitive in all 50 states.
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Why is it you continue to fail to comprehend a "necessary evil" when I have stated it twice before? You keep coming up with this bizarre irrational nonsense that I never said. Is English your first language? You appear to have a serious reading comprehension problem.
 
JacksinPA said:
Pot or not? Busts highlight growing confusion over hemp

NEW YORK (AP) — The CBD craze might be leaving the war on drugs a bit dazed and confused. The extract that’s been showing up in everything from candy to coffee is legally derived from hemp plants, which look and smell an awful lot like that other cannabis — marijuana. They’re so similar, police officers and the field tests they use on suspected drugs sometimes can’t tell the difference.

Case in point, New York City police boasted on social media this week about what seemed like a significant drug bust: 106 pounds (48 kilograms) of funky, green plants that officers thought sure seemed like marijuana.
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The Vermont farm that grew the plants and the NYC CBD shop that ordered them insisted they’re actually industrial hemp, and perfectly legal. And, they said, they have paperwork to prove it.

Nevertheless, when the shop’s owner brother went to the police station to straighten things out, he was arrested. Police said a field test had come back positive for marijuana.

The points of contention here seems to be both a) the legal limit for THC content in legal hemp & b) the accuracy of the 'field tests' as opposed to stricter lab analyses.
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Just legalize marijuana ... problem solved.
 
Glitch said:
If they are repealing a criminal law that is the very definition of decriminalization. To decriminalize something.

Legalization is always about enacting new laws, never repealing. If you wish to impose a VAT on marijuana, for example, a law must be enacted. Legalization increases the size and scope of government. Exactly the opposite of decriminalization. It is important to get the terminology correct.



Why is it you continue to fail to comprehend a "necessary evil" when I have stated it twice before? You keep coming up with this bizarre irrational nonsense that I never said. Is English your first language? You appear to have a serious reading comprehension problem.
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Yes and no. A more precise term for repealing bad law is REPEAL. A most vague term would be DECRIMINALIZE.

Legalization means to legalize something that had once been declared illegal.

Sorry Glitch, I missed your "necessary evil" point. Do you mean like the philosophical statement that government is a necessary evil? If so, we're in agreement.

Or are you trying to say that pot is a necessary evil? Or taxes?

You're such a smooth operator and skilled communicator that I missed that bit o' stuff.
 
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