...anyway, one of the first things that needs to happen, WRT federal legalization, is that they have to admit "schedule 1" is wrong, and has been wrong since the deliberately and maliciously discarded report given to Nixon, who simply hated hippies and wanted to eradicate them. Cannabis should never have been schedule 1 in the first place, and the only reason it stayed that way is because of Nixon.
So that needs undoing.
Then we have to get rid of Michel Leonhart, obsessively anti-cannabis prohibition super-zealot of the DEA. I vote we forcibly hotbox her into compliance. Ideally, the DEA should only be involved in cases of harm reduction/prevention, in such a way as to intervene in dangerous activities... not people growing plants for personal purposes (medical, recreational, small time local trading, etc., should not be their jurisdiction).
Then we need to somehow fix the corruption in both the FDA and NIDA, and DHHS should follow along nicely.
Then we need to repeal the CSA (controlled substances act), on the grounds that it is unconstitutional and therefore invalid. Let people make/own/use all the drugs they want, as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process. If, and only when, someone does harm someone else in the process, that is the only acceptable scenario in which enforcement of any penalty of any kind, should ever be authorized.
Congress needs to step in and accept the duty to respect our rights and uphold the constitution, which they have repeatedly failed to do, many times in the recent past (perhaps intentionally).
SCOTUS needs to be part of this reformation as well. They need to get in line like everyone else.
Not sure what to do about the states and the private prison racket. It's unethical at best, and... well, abhorrent at worst, but reason should prevail if the right professional argumentative specialist can put them on the spot in a publicly visible way.
Somewhere within all these events, the IRS needs to be audited and have some of their power revoked, like authorization to use deadly force to impose tax compliance. You can't go around threatening people with weapons, to force them to fund their own oppression. Maybe if the laws can be corrected so that the tax system isn't completely fucked, perhaps then they could be allowed enforcement authority. But idk.
We have rights, based upon the foundations of fundamental truths we hold to be self-evident. We reserve these rights, the government must observe these rights, these rights are inalienable and must not be infringed. And as stated in the constitution itself: any abuse of the powers granted to the government, in which officials use their given powers to violate the constitutionally protected rights of the citizens, shall be construed as treason.
What is not quite clear to me, is just how we are supposed to go about charging our own corrupt government officials with treason. Maybe someone can shed some light on that part.
