Paul Ryan: Don't interfere with legalized medical pot
DENVER (AP) — Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan says the federal government shouldn't interfere with states that have legalized medical marijuana.
The Wisconsin congressman tells KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs that he personally doesn't approve of medical marijuana laws. But he says that states should have the right to choose whether to legalize the drug for medical purposes.
In response to a reporter's question, Ryan said: "It's up to Coloradans to decide."
The interview was taped while Ryan campaigned this week in Colorado Springs and aired Friday.
Colorado is one of 17 states, plus the District of Columbia, that allow medical marijuana.
The Obama administration at first signaled that it wouldn't interfere with state-sanctioned marijuana distribution. But the Justice Department has since angered marijuana activists by shutting down dispensaries in California and Colorado.
The Wisconsin congressman tells KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs that he personally doesn't approve of medical marijuana laws. But he says that states should have the right to choose whether to legalize the drug for medical purposes.
In response to a reporter's question, Ryan said: "It's up to Coloradans to decide."
The interview was taped while Ryan campaigned this week in Colorado Springs and aired Friday.
Colorado is one of 17 states, plus the District of Columbia, that allow medical marijuana.
The Obama administration at first signaled that it wouldn't interfere with state-sanctioned marijuana distribution. But the Justice Department has since angered marijuana activists by shutting down dispensaries in California and Colorado.
We have to vote for Obama this is why......
http://youtu.be/W_pgfWK3sxw
What if the states want to allow a woman to have the right to her Own body????
Ryan would say....????
 @cptmac11 He might say: Do with your body what you will, but leave the kid alone.
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@Sid Vishess bwahahaha.... Well you know the rest.
 @Sid Vishess's Uncle Pedro  @cptmac11 I am flattered that someone would go to the time and trouble to get a new KOMO account on a nice day just to hurl soon to be deleted verbal poo at me.Â
 @cptmac11 "Ryan would say....????"
Something like "You've been smoking too much weed!"...
I am glad to see that some one running for office know what the 9th and 10th Admendments to the Constitution mean. What he is talking about is a states rights Issue let the states deam what is lawful and what is not and keep the feds out of it. It would save money to end the war on drugs
I know the benefits of canibus. I was rendered disabled after a back surgery and all they gave me was narcotics.Since using the reefer I now work and have very little pain. The use may not be for everyone but should be put in the arsenal of alternative medicines.
 @Telman@ You are living proof that the drug companies were behind Nixon's moving MJ to a class one narcotic. Making it illegal means people have to buy their poisons that don't really help but make people dependent on them.
Good to read this. Maybe Republicans are starting to understand the 10th Amendment again.
@LockesChild Republicans have always understood the 10th amendment and have been strong state's rights supporters. It's the Democrats that want the federal government to run over state's rights like a steamroller.
 @Mamasauras I am not so certain of that. Anyway, Republicans are only human too and the attraction/corruption of power is the same for them as for Democrats. Furthermore, the GOP has been just as complicit in the "War on Drugs" as the Democrats over the past few decades. So seeing a GOP politician of this stature affirm that legalization of marijuana is state business, not federal, is a very welcome change.
Pandering for populace votes there, Paul? This wasn't your tune when I listened to you back home in Janesville, Senator. You were closer to being for about doubling our drug interdiction employees back then. Right now I could care less about medical marijuana laws, because the Stage 4 cancer patient in my family is damn well gonna be able to eat whether YOU or some Governor says it's ok or not. She WILL get breaks from having to eat all those damn painkillers that she screams on anyway. Get bent.
 @FreeCoffeeNow! There are more drugs out there than marijuana. Or haven't you figured that out yet?
@LockesChild. Legalize MJ the same way as alcohol is/was legalized and rather than "about doubling our drug interdiction employees" there would most likely be fewer, not to mention opening up more space in the jails, prisons, court/justice system, etc. plus not even to mention maybe toning down the drug wars, killings, etc. at least some. But you obviously figured that out a long time ago.
@LockesChild. Boy child. You have obviously been schooled big time. Obviously.
 @LockesChild "This isn't so much to educate you as to (hopefully) get you to stfu until you can learn a little bit more about the Civil War, the 10th Amendment, and federalism."
Given the above noted errors on your part, perhaps you should rephrase that statement into the first person...
 @LockesChild "And, presuming you attended school in the USA, you are a great example of the terrible education provided wherever you went."
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By that statement you show your prejudice towards immigrants...
Ignoring your ignorant jibes, I'll just point out that, if order to become a US citizen, every immigrant MUST take classes and takes tests in US history and in our political system - and it is fair to say that most who pass these tests and obtain that Citizenship are far more knowledgeable in these matters than most native-born citizens are.
 @LockesChild "The Civil War was literally fought over the right of the southern states to secede--not whether they could own slaves."
Read some of the secession declarations of the States, you will see the issue of the right to own slaves was strongly listed as their reason for seceding.
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Georgia:
"The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America, present to their confederates and the world the causes which have led to the separation. For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery. They have endeavored to weaken our security, to disturb our domestic peace and tranquility, and persistently refused to comply with their express constitutional obligations to us in reference to that property, and by the use of their power in the Federal Government have striven to deprive us of an equal enjoyment of the common Territories of the Republic"
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/reasons.html
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Mississippi:
"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin."
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/reasons.html#Mississippi
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"We assert that fourteen of the States have deliberately refused, for years past, to fulfill their constitutional obligations, and we refer to their own Statutes for the proof.
The Constitution of the United States, in its fourth Article, provides as follows: "No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due."
This stipulation was so material to the compact, that without it that compact would not have been made. The greater number of the contracting parties held slaves, and they had previously evinced their estimate of the value of such a stipulation by making it a condition in the Ordinance for the government of the territory ceded by Virginia, which now composes the States north of the Ohio River.
The same article of the Constitution stipulates also for rendition by the several States of fugitives from justice from the other States."
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/reasons.html#South%20Carolina
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So...not only history, but the very words of those who forced the war on this nation, the fact is clear...the war was about slavery. Many who fought might not have thought so, but the States that rebelled clearly saw it that way.Â
 @OrcasThunder "The fact is, the States cannot declare something legal that is determined by the Feds to be illegal."
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There isn't enough room here to educate you on the concept of federalism. And, presuming you attended school in the USA, you are a great example of the terrible education provided wherever you went.
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Your knowledge of history leaves a lot to be desired as well. The Civil War was literally fought over the right of the southern states to secede--not whether they could own slaves. Slavery wasn't even begun to be banned Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation--which wasn't even going to be issued if the secessionists (too big a word for you?) returned to the Union. Since that proclamation was issued under Lincoln's war powers, two amendments still had to be passed in order to make it constitutional.
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This isn't so much to educate you as to (hopefully) get you to stfu until you can learn a little bit more about the Civil War, the 10th Amendment, and federalism.
 @LockesChild "Well, no."
Really?
The entire reason for the Civil War was to determine which had the right to say something - in that case slavery - legal or not.
The Federal government won that dispute.
The fact is, the States cannot declare something legal that is determined by the Feds to be illegal.
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Article Six of the US Constitution, second clause:
"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
 @OrcasThunder Well, no. But don't let your constitutional ignorance hit your rear on the way out of here.
 @LockesChild  @flyskiwindsurf "Until then, it is the business of the states to determine which are illegal and which are illegal."
That was already tried - and was decided in 1865.
 @flyskiwindsurf If US citizens wish for the federal government to have the authority to ban all drugs in all states, then we should pass an amendment granting that authority to the federal government. Until then, it is the business of the states to determine which are illegal and which are illegal.
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 @FreeCoffeeNow! Hes a rep, not a senator. As a rep, he represents the will of his congressional district. If they are majority against pot legalization, then it's OK for him to be so. (In all honesty, I really don't know WHAT his district stance is on it). Running for VP, he's aiming to be representing the executive branch for the whole nation, which is quite a different kettle of fish, and changing stance on something like that isn't ENTIRELY unreasonable.
 @RN1  @FreeCoffeeNow! Senator,Representative, Tenth Amendment, Separation of Powers. That's all just jibber- jabber.
 @Sid Vishess  @FreeCoffeeNow! A lot of it is. Take, for instance, Obama's promise never to put seniors on Medicare onto vouchers, like Ryan would. He made (reiterated) the promise at the convention last week. Hey, guess what? Life expectancy of that promise was less than a week!
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/08/surprise-hhs-pilot-program-to-send-2-million-poor-seniors-from-medicare-into-voucher-programs/
 @FreeCoffeeNow! I'm with you. My sister benefits greatly from medical cannabis and all naysayers can kiss my south-side. I KNOW medical cannabis works.
@FreeCoffeeNow! Hes a Representative. Dont give him any more credit than is due. (Just him being a representative is bad enough.)
Yay, but I'm still not voting for him.
@Shelly
I don't care if Lord Obama sacrifices virgins (or puppies) to the Volcano God, he gets my vote. I don't care if medical marijuana is the MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE in this campaign and Lord Obama is throwing medical dispensaries into  Guantanamo and Ryan says the States should decide, I was at Jonestown and Reverend Jones was misunderstood and that Heavens Gate Guy as well. I will not have my heart broken again.
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@Sid Vishess Oh oh. Sidney is going off the deep end and over the cliff even again. Watch out below because he is just one big bag of a bloviating blowhard. I.e. much like a lot of the rest of the reps and about all of the tbagginâ tbilly nutbagginâ tbagger nutbaggers. ummm....But you do need to re-edit your post even again Sidney. Well and then even again. Or actually that might not be the thing for you to do after all.
@RN1 You engage in so much projection that you MUST be a tpublican. But yep. "It's sad, so sad. It's a sad, sad situation" for you.
@RN1 bwahahaha.... Says you! But then you donât even know what the heck that you are saying.
 @RN1  @flyskiwindsurf "But I didn't include any superfluous name calling..."
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This from the person who make this asinine accusation:
"Says the guy who seems to have gotten his economic theory from the communist manifesto"?
RN1, you are as reliably inconsistent as Willard...
@OrcasThunder@flyskiwindsurf Says you! Oh, wait.... :-)
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But I didn't include any superfluous name calling...
 @RN1  @flyskiwindsurf "And yet you still feel compelled to attempt to get in the last word, like a child getting in one last "did TO!", while name-calling yet again. Sad."
Says the last person in the exchange...<g>
 @flyskiwindsurf  @RN1 And yet you still feel compelled to attempt to get in the last word, like a child getting in one last "did TO!", while name-calling yet again. Sad.
@Sid Vishess bwahahahaâ¦. You are so full of yourself that you are nearly beyond hope Sidney. You would probably just explode and fling BS all over everyone if you werenât continually offloading yourself by spewing it on here as much as you do. But thank you thank you for not âengagingâ me anymore. I read enough of your drivel on here as it is and I definitely donât need anymore of your claptrap. And yeah youâre right. I obviously canât understand most of your 4th grade level âhumorâ. bwahahahaâ¦.. But I AM sure that you donât really even understand, or even really remember, a lot of youâre poppycock . I.e. youâre obviously an iâ¦.. Well you should know but I am sure that you donât.
 I don't engage flopski or orca anymore. They're  Johnny OneNote's. Neither one of them probably realize that my little comment  about Emperor Obama and his foot worshiping acolytes was about them@RN1
@RN1 bwahahaha..... Youâre so ridiculous that youâre not even worth it.
 @flyskiwindsurf  @Sid Calling people names (again). How mature and eloquent of you. Denigrate that which you do not understand, just like many of the "tolerant" left, so you don't have to actually think or learn about it.
@OrcasThunder In that case someone should also tell him that he is around a half century late as well as about that much behind the times. Much like a number of reps and most all of the tbaggers. Oh never mind. If they havenât figured it out yet they are obviously way to dense to ever figure it out. âThe times theyâ have been and âare a changinâ.â
 @flyskiwindsurf  @Sid We really should give Sid a break here - he's practicing for the auditions of the "Outer Limits" program they want to put on that new contraption, the TV...
Someone should really tell him it's not intended to be a "comedy" show...
@Shelly why not?
@Jeff Peterson Maybe because a vote for him is also a vote for fence post up his b... Willard?
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@RN1 Extremely unlikely that there really even was a real problem. I.e. try to think about it. At least a little bit.
 @OrcasThunder  @scuttlebutt  @Jeff Peterson  @Shelly No, not oblivious, just goofing on it. Just because you didn't get the joke, though, doesn't mean I was being obtuse - maybe the problem was at your end :-)
 @RN1  @scuttlebutt  @Jeff Peterson  @Shelly "I was being a tad sarcastic."
Obtuse would be a better word to use.
Grabbing at straws, oblivious to what was actually said...
In other words, just being yourself.
 @OrcasThunder  @scuttlebutt  @Jeff Peterson  @Shelly I was being a tad sarcastic. You said that Ryan being smart just made him more dangerous. By implication, dumber people would be less dangerous.
 @RN1  @scuttlebutt  @Jeff Peterson  @ShellyÂ
"you are saying you'd rather NOT have bright people in charge?"
Where did I say that?
 @OrcasThunder  @scuttlebutt  @Jeff Peterson  @Shelly So, you are saying you'd rather NOT have bright people in charge? Well, that would explain your support of Obama & Biden. Maybe you should know a bit more about the effectiveness of our intellectual elites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_JIIPf9T4ME
Thomas Sowell - smart enough to know he doesn't know everything.
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@Sid Vishess So as usual you just werenât paying any attention at all even again there huh Sidney? Or most likely you were watching some at least version of faux snooze. Oh well. We have definitely come to expect that from your ilk.
 @scuttlebutt  @Jeff Peterson  @Shelly yeah, math is hard. Vote for the guys who don't understand it.
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Good job
 @RN1  @scuttlebutt  @Jeff Peterson  @Shelly Any ticket that has Joe" No, You Can't Give A Televised Speech At The DNC. Wadayunuts?" Biden, has no grounds to hurl the Moron Bomb.
 @RN1  @scuttlebutt  @Jeff Peterson  @Shelly
@Shellybut one thing Ryan is NOT is a moron."
Which only makes him more dangerous...
 @scuttlebutt  @Jeff Peterson  @Shelly You may not agree with him, but one thing Ryan is NOT is a moron.