re: I thought this admin wasn't going after Marijuana?

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I am very poorly educated but I know how to sound smart.

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Fake it until you make it.

But maybe I'm your FOIL; I'm very well educated and I know how to sound like an idiot.

Maybe congress should change the laws. They have the power. You tards act like only the admin is at fault

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You tards act like only the admin is at fault

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Well if they take a hard line stance, then of course they are at fault. They don't have to do that.

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Calling yourself a pirate doesn't make you one. It's odd that you chose the one actually decent law out of your list as an example.

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I chose it because I enjoy Mike Leach and his pirateisms.

The point is that it's neither feasible, nor legally required, to enforce even law on the book, especially to its fullest possible extent.

Yea let's ignore my entire post

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Is it not the law?

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But they don't have to enforce it, especially when we know it's not effective, and it's probably harmful to enforce it.

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That how govt works.

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And executive discretion is also part of that, and is established SCOTUS case law.

Obama's administration picking and choosing which laws to enforce was the main thing that made it a failed administration. It's odd to me that you expect folks to want Trump's administration to do it.

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Yes, the laws are on the books. It would be pretty rad if they got changed. But enforcing dumb laws because they are laws is not good governance, it places the written word above the real world.

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The irony of the exteme "law and order," if it's on the books it must be fully enforced argument, is that it's legally incorrect.

This is why the situation under Obama was untenable....I don't smoke pot and havent in 33 years....but prohibition is not going to work...

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Obama's administration picking and choosing which laws to enforce was the main thing that made it a failed administration.

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Like what? I would say the biggest domestic failures during his his main tenure involved Obamacare and Dodd-Frank. Imagine if he scaled back the enforcement? Wouldn't that have been nice.

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It's odd to me that you expect folks to want Trump's administration to do it.

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Because it's not practical; they are not legally required to do so; and certain laws are harmful to enforce completely.

And appropriate use of power is as much about knowing when not to use it as it is knowing when to use it.

In this case Marijuana as a schedule 1 drug, is invalid, both scientifically and practically; and the enforcement has shown to be costly and harmful. So enforcing an invalid, harmful, and costly law, just for the sake of exercising power, is a misuse of power.