COMMENTS QUICKLY WENT TO POT

Comments in Big Jolly Times on law enforcement’s lack of respect for DA Kim Ogg quickly turned into shots at the laws against marijuana

BarkGrowlBite
March 5, 2018

My March 1 article, “Houston-Area Police Have No Respect For Their District Attorney,” elicited a number of comments in Big Jolly Times which, instead of being about DA Ogg, quickly went to pot. Here are some examples:

Jim: People who are caught with smaller amounts of marijuana for personal use should not have any consequence whatsoever, not even a “ticket”.

Bill D: [Marijuana] is no longer just the leftist ex hippies and communists who want it legal, it’s fiscal conservatives who are tired of paying for the war on drugs.

My prediction is, Trump will order it de-scheduled in time for the 2020 election, to steal thunder from the Dems. He is a populist, after all, and it’s what the majority of voters actually want.

Bill M: Federal laws against simple possession of marijuana are unconstitutional. Article 1, Section 8 enumerates 18 specific powers delegated to the federal government. Unlawful possession of a dried flower is not one of them.

Marijuana in interstate commerce could fall under federal purview, but there is no constitutional authority for the fedgov to criminalize growing pot for personal consumption, or buying weed that was grown within that same state.

In addition, anyone who thinks that pot is “highly addictive” has already demonstrated a degree of gross ignorance that his policy views regarding marijuana can be safely disregarded.

Anonymous: The feds have stepped out of bounds and if you are to use Howies example then alcohol should be a Schedule 1 drug.

I have no use for weed but love freedom in its truest form, that is as long as you do no harm to another the gov has no say in what you do. There was a day not all that long ago when there had to be a victim for there to be a crime that is until the advent of the nanny state and a need for the prison industry which is not all that different from the military industrial complex.

Reader: Why would one assume that arresting non-violent offenders is supporting police? How completely ludicrous.

If Republicans continue to advocate for criminal punishment for smoking a plant, they should expect to lose elections, stay on the sidelines and be limited to commenting from afar and the public will be worse off for it. How sad.

Jim thinks people caught with small amounts of marijuana should not even get the equivalent of a traffic ticket. That may be his opinion, but the law says different. Not only that, but federal law classifies marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug, meaning that pot is highly addictive and has no medical value.

Bill D predicts that Trump will order marijuana de-scheduled in time for the 2020 election. He could possibly be right.

And Bill M provided the Big Jolly Times readers with a most enlightening lesson on constitutional law. I should have consulted with him before composing my piece on the lack of respect for Ogg. My copy of the Constitution is obviously a fake. Bill M failed to mention where he got his law degree. Was it at that prestigious Cannabis College of Law? Or was it at Stoner University?

As for the argument that as long as you do no harm to another, the government has no say in what you do, that could also be applied to heroin, cocaine, meth and other restricted drugs. The only reason dopers commit burglaries and robberies is because illegal drugs like heroin are so expensive on the black market. I’ve dealt with dozens of heroin users on a personal level and I feel fairly certain that if heroin were legal, they would not harm a fly. The same cannot be said for stimulants like coke and meth which can lead to aggressive behavior because of induced paranoia.

Now I am going to toke up my blunt and just relax. Now where is that joint? … I put it right here … God dammit, the fucking dog is eating it.