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Since the Constitution specifies that policing power is to be left only to States, why have federal drug laws?

Posted by admin in Drug & Alcohol Laws on July 26, 2010

Question by Anti_Censorship: Since the Constitution specifies that policing power is to be left only to States, why have federal drug laws?
During the birth of the US Constitution, it was understood that people had the right to do what they wanted with their own minds and bodies. Why do we now have federal drug laws against marijuana which puts more “offenders” into prisions wasting taxpayer money? Do we really want the government making personal decisions for us?
People smoking marijuana privately in their own homes without causing a problem does not constitute anything close to interstate commerce.

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Answer by Andy J
no… vote Ron Paul

they make so much money catching people who do drugs, fines, fees, all sorts of crazy cash. the department of trasnportation is in on it too

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Alcoholics Anon, Narcotics anon, they all require a belief in higher power. Do they work for non believers?

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on April 27, 2010

Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics anonymous, they all require a belief in higher power or some kind of god. Do they work for non believers, for atheists or agnostics?
Or are those people destined to fail those programs because the programs are designed for believers?

I have asked this question already in cultures. But thought maybe i would get more responses from Religion & Spirituality
Im not going to one of those groups.
Im not a drug user and only drink at parties.
I was asking out of curiousity.

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In australia can a parent go to court and get power of attorney over their adult child?

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on April 26, 2010

In australia can a parent go to court and get power of attorney over their adult child?
my mild intellectually disabled friend has decided to move out of home he’s 24 doesn’t always make the best financial choices sometimes and drinks a lot border-lining on alcoholism because his parents insist on controlling his life, they give him little or no say in anything and make decisions and choices for him that he gets no say in, they don’t listen to him which is why he wants to move out so he can be independent.

he’s now telling me that because he has decided to move out on his own his parents have decided to take him to court to get power of attorney.

can they do that?
is there any basis to their argument if they base their reason on his disability?
can the fact that they take money off him and give him very little to spend and his money is placed in his mother’s name and she won’t give it to him even though she promised to when he hit 21 be used as an argument in his defence?
could it also be used in his defence that the reason he can’t handle money is because he really hasn’t had any (see point above) to learn how to control it?

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