does anyone believe that statues enacted by the states through various acts of congress apply to individuals? can anyone explain how they do apply to individuals? if government's only function is the protection and help of the public, then how is it that they can justify passing laws against possession of things like marijuana?
does anyone have any hope the the national debt will ever be paid off, or will the US finally default?
just wondering what people's opinions are...
I just finished watching Ken Burn's Documenary on the first great prohibition. It seems back then they began to see the Consitution of the United States as some sort of moral document when in fact it has never been and should never be anything of the kind. At least back then they believed that prohibition applying to the individual citizen had to have a constitutional mandate. Our current prohibition is a result of a series of hedges around that same constitution. It was strange, other than that, how similar the two prohibitions really are.
When the lobby for the marijuana industry grows powerful enough or enough states impose their own understanding of the rights of its citizens, prohibition will finally go away - but unfortunately, only for the most widely used substance and not for the others. It can justify what it likes as it likes and has been doing so for a very long time over a great many things from wiretapping foreign dignitaries to invasive overflights with drones - domesticly and otherwise. There are a great many things that can be done about it, but people would rather occupy themselves with other things, things that corporations endorse them to be upset over, like gun rights, or the "right" to eat all the sugar and fat they like.
No, the national debt will never be paid off, but that doesn't mean default. I believe our national debt has only been fully paid off once in our history (Could be wrong).
