Decriminalization of Marijuana in Indiana (IN LAW BLOG)

[HenryWallace]

Screw the 50,000 uses of Hemp and Medicinal Marijuana!

Let's grow poppy instead!

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Seriously? How did that go? Started at 3% of the worlds supply then after we invade it went to 97% of the world's supply, from Afghanistan? I could be fudging the numbers a bit, but I'd have to say were being fudged on Trillions of dollars and a war taking place at home as well as in Afghanistan!

 

[lucky4034]

Pot and guns mix about as well as alcohol and guns.

I think it would be an interesting challenge on the next season of Top Shot.

$20 of pot vs $20 of alcohol

Contestants choose to consume either $20 of pot OR $20 of alcohol over a 3 hour consumption period and then shoot 1" circle targets at 10yds.

I'm guessing that Team Ganja would win by a substantial margin...

 

[rockhopper46038]

Team Ganja's firearms would jam due to all the Cheetos dust.

 

[45calibre]

i mix guns and alcohol all the time. try to guess how many people i have hurt. im all for decriminalizing marijuana, no need for the government to control that, too.

 

[femurphy77]

Pence was not a wise choice. While I had lots of problems with our previous Guv, he was greatly superior to our current pseudomoralist authoritarian.

Previous Guv vs pseudomoralist wasn't a choice. . . at least not on my ballot!

 

[arthrimus]

Guns and drugs do not mix, and that includes pot.

Perhaps you, drugs and guns don't mix, but don't use your failings to define what's good for the rest of us. I have never, nor do I ever intend to, ingest any of those drugs which have been made illegal, but that does not mean that my neighbor shouldn't be able to.

Myself, Alcohol, and my home full of guns mix all of the time, and do so without incident. Why shouldn't my neighbor be able to do the same with his poison of choice?

 

[lucky4034]

He's trying to say that we SHOULDN'T support the legalization of marijuana because we're gun owners. He's trying to imply that we'll all start smoking pot the second it's legal and he has to protect us from ourselves, and society from us.

Oh... well that's just ridiculous

 

[mrjarrell]

Let me ask you a question, then I'll respond.

WHY do you believe NOT legalizing pot would "ruin peoples lives"?

To answer, it has a lot to do with it. Drugs and guns do not mix. As gun owners and advocates here, it follows we should support gun rights over pot rights.

The OP is not about legalising pot, it's about decriminalising it. Two totally different things. The war on drugs is already destroying lives in a wide variety of ways. Kids caught smoking a joint are forbidden from ever getting a federal student grant and many loans. People caught with small amounts often find themselves victims of mandatory minimum sentences that see them in jail for years for possession of a plant. The fact that it costs us billions of dollars in stolen tax money is obviously lost on you. As for your gun rights over pot rights, it's a matter of supporting Rights. The Right to be secure in your person. Gun Rights are important to me, but they certainly don't override my concerns where the 4th Amendment is concerned. An Amendment the war on drugs has all but destroyed, thanks to people with your attitude.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Modern, what Mr. J says. This proposal is not about "legalizing" marijuana but reducing the penalties which, as stated above, can be very silly.

 

[LEaSH]

Yeah, like Pence is going to start disappointing the "For Profit" prison industry so quickly?

There are people that are going to be pretty upset with some missing livestock if decriminalization were to take place here. Not that they'll still be making convicts over time.

 

[IndyDave1776]

The economy is in the tank, the Constitution is being violated more than a drunken whore at a lechers' convention, our schools appear incapable of teaching inanimate objects to hold still, and solutions to any of the above are immediately regulated into nonexistence, so what do we do? DOUBLE DOWN ON THE WEED!

A combination of hemp fiber products, emptying out the prisons, and getting government out of plenty of other things would be a huge step in the right direction. Somehow, I don't see this happening this side of the second coming of Christ. After all, commercial manufacturers of drugs, synthetic fibers, and prisons depend on the correctional industrial complex.

 

[Lucas156]

Obama is for due criminalization so you all must be communists

 

[bingley]

Guns and drugs do not mix, and that includes pot.

What's that got to do with anything? Especially, the OP's post?

Don't shoot on the same day you shoot up!

 

[John Titor]

we need to legalize it

 

[Kirk Freeman]

we need to legalize it

There is no provision in 1006 for this.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

Originally Posted by ModernGunner
Guns and drugs do not mix, and that includes pot.

I hope that doesn't also include Nasonex, 'cause, you know, lots of dust and pollen at the outdoor range.

 

[dusty711]

Pot will be legal sooner or later just so it can be taxed. As I have stated in other posts, the states are going broke from over spending are are looking for new things to tax all the time.

 

[jbombelli]

There is no provision in 1006 for this.

We still need to, whether there's a provision for it in the current bill or not.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

We still need to, whether there's a provision for it in the current bill or not.

As a goal to shoot for as to legislative policy you are likely right. I just don't see how the Drug Warriors can hang on to pot long term (heroin more likely).

Washington and Colorado can go straight to legalization (even with all the bizarre, baroque rules), but Indiana has to King of England it down steps at a time.

Misdemeanor to Infraction to Diveratable Infraction to Repeal.

 

[IndyDave1776]

As a goal to shoot for as to legislative policy you are likely right. I just don't see how the Drug Warriors can hang on to pot long term (heroin more likely).

Washington and Colorado can go straight to legalization (even with all the bizarre, baroque rules), but Indiana has to King of England it down steps at a time.

Misdemeanor to Infraction to Diveratable Infraction to Repeal.

Speaking of things done incrementally, why is it that a person is presumed to have intent to distribute based on a threshold amount rather than any verifiable attempt to resell. After all, no one would consider it reasonable to believe I intended to be a toilet paper dealer because I got caught walking out of Sam's with a case of it. So far as I am concerned, that is no more reasonable than considering possession of a firearm to constitute proof of intent to commit murder.