Interesting marijuana lawsuits

[EVT1]

The bad (IMO):

www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27163543/nebraska-and-oklahoma-sue-colorado-over-marijuana-legalization

Similar to the gun argument- and older- your lax laws are flooding our state with contraband

www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/19/us-usa-marijuana-colorado-idUSKBN0LN03W20150219

DC group alleging a RICO violation'

And the good:

www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/13/california-judge-constitutionality-marijuana-schedule-one-drug

     A judge in California is preparing to rule on whether the federal government’s classification of marijuana as a schedule one drug – the most dangerous category – is unconstitutional.

     Presiding in Sacramento over a case involving nine men accused of illegally growing marijuana on private and national forest land in northern California, US district judge Kimberly Mueller has taken on the issue of the risks and benefits of the drug more widely, in a series of pre-trial hearings that are stirring national interest.

     Since the Nixon administration, the US government has placed cannabis in the same classification as heroin and LSD. This remains the case despite 23 states and the District of Columbia ruling it legal for medical use, and Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska allowing adult recreational use.

I'd say making pot or other drugs illegal in the first place is unconstitutional.  Doesn't legislating what someone can eat or inhale violate our "God given rights"?

[mroped]

Pot was declared illegal in the thirties at the end of a four year "negative campaign" funded by DuPont.
They were just at the beginnings of plastic fibers and DuPont couldn't cpmpete with the hemp fiber which was cheaper and stronger. So, he gets in touch with one of his nephews( the name escapes) that was high up in DEA- assistant something- and plotted with him.

In 1932, he gave his nephew $4mill to put a nationwide campaign against hemp.
The nephew gets creative, generalizes hemp as being a dangerous drug. Hemp is in the Canabis family so potatoh-potatah there is no difference.

Problem was that everybody knew that smoking Canabis was quite good for many things and doctors didn't hesitate to prescribe it for many illnesses/ conditions.

So the nephew gets creative again and "relabels" canabis as...Marijuana! That was the name that some growers of Canabis in the southern part of US and northern Mexico were using.

The nationwide negative campaign lasted 4 years.
Posters and billboards were depicting in many cases a young white woman sitting on the lap of a black man while smoking and drinking and had captions like :" This is what Marijuana would do to your wife/daughter if they consume it!"

No one had the first clue what Marijuana was but they all feared it!

To seal the deal, a Congresional Hearing was neede so more greasing the wheels to the people that were in the Comitee was done.
To make it legal, aproval/agreement from AMA was needed so 2 days before the hearing date, the AMA is let know that they have to be present in DC for the proceedings.
The AMA contacts a doctor from Massachusets to represent AMA in the case.

Durring the proceedings, the DEA makes a compelling case on the dangers of Marijuana's dangers.

When is the doctors turn he is simply asked: "do you agree that that is dangerous?"

At which he replies: "what is Marijuana?" And when he learns what is about he explains them quite the contrary.
Nevertheless the Congressional Comitee while hearing the doctor say "No, Canabis is good, I prescribe it to many patients myself!" Reply with " let the record show that the AMA representative agrees to the dangers Marijuana poses! Meeting adjourned!"

And kaboom! Hemp is out of the equation, DuPont can sell his plastic fiber at prices that he can decide having no competition!
All for the greed of a filthy rich person!

Later on, Pharma companies caught on the deal and started pushing all sorts of pills that could fill in the void left by Canabis.
Many farmers went banckrupt due to the ban.
Many people were sentenced and jailed for doing something similar with having a drink(or a few)
If it is legalized or decriminalized, that will hit the Pharma, plastic fibers industry and the jails system in hard hard way!

[djAdvocate]

i find it quite interesting that tobacco was kept legal, despite mounting evidence that it was a problem in the 30's, but pot was made a class 1 narcotic.

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Feb 19, 2015 1:13:07 GMT -5 EVT1 said:

The bad (IMO):

www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27163543/nebraska-and-oklahoma-sue-colorado-over-marijuana-legalization

Similar to the gun argument- and older- your lax laws are flooding our state with contraband

www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/19/us-usa-marijuana-colorado-idUSKBN0LN03W20150219

DC group alleging a RICO violation'

And the good:

www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/13/california-judge-constitutionality-marijuana-schedule-one-drug

     A judge in California is preparing to rule on whether the federal government’s classification of marijuana as a schedule one drug – the most dangerous category – is unconstitutional.

     Presiding in Sacramento over a case involving nine men accused of illegally growing marijuana on private and national forest land in northern California, US district judge Kimberly Mueller has taken on the issue of the risks and benefits of the drug more widely, in a series of pre-trial hearings that are stirring national interest.

     Since the Nixon administration, the US government has placed cannabis in the same classification as heroin and LSD. This remains the case despite 23 states and the District of Columbia ruling it legal for medical use, and Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska allowing adult recreational use.

I'd say making pot or other drugs illegal in the first place is unconstitutional.  Doesn't legislating what someone can eat or inhale violate our "God given rights"?

No such thing exists.

If you are referring to the "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" a-la the Declaration of Independence No reference is ever given as to who or what that "Creator" might be.
It could however be in violation of the spirit of the Founding Documents... because smoking pot could be part of the "pursuit of happiness".

[EVT1]

I was being sarcastic.

[jkapp]

Feb 19, 2015 1:13:07 GMT -5 EVT1 said:

The bad (IMO):

www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27163543/nebraska-and-oklahoma-sue-colorado-over-marijuana-legalization

Similar to the gun argument- and older- your lax laws are flooding our state with contraband

www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/19/us-usa-marijuana-colorado-idUSKBN0LN03W20150219

DC group alleging a RICO violation'

And the good:

www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/13/california-judge-constitutionality-marijuana-schedule-one-drug

     A judge in California is preparing to rule on whether the federal government’s classification of marijuana as a schedule one drug – the most dangerous category – is unconstitutional.

     Presiding in Sacramento over a case involving nine men accused of illegally growing marijuana on private and national forest land in northern California, US district judge Kimberly Mueller has taken on the issue of the risks and benefits of the drug more widely, in a series of pre-trial hearings that are stirring national interest.

     Since the Nixon administration, the US government has placed cannabis in the same classification as heroin and LSD. This remains the case despite 23 states and the District of Columbia ruling it legal for medical use, and Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska allowing adult recreational use.

I'd say making pot or other drugs illegal in the first place is unconstitutional.  Doesn't legislating what someone can eat or inhale violate our "God given rights"?

Apparently not, but you'd have to talk to the people that outlawed Trans-Fats