Pubdate: Mon, 14 May 2012
Source: Daily Camera (Boulder, CO)
Copyright: 2012 Michael J. Dee
Contact:  http://www.dailycamera.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/103
Author: Michael J. Dee

MARIJUANA IS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS ISSUE

Selling and possessing marijuana is still a federal crime. Selling 
marijuana near a school is an elevated crime. Does the federal 
government prohibit the sale of alcohol and tobacco within a thousand 
feet of a school?

Marijuana itself is not a threat to public safety. Selling marijuana 
does not pose a dangerous threat to the health of the user, no 
greater than alcohol or tobacco.

The proscription of marijuana is property discrimination. Saying 
marijuana can only be used for medicinal purposes is property discrimination.

The right to acquire property is a fundamental right. The use of 
police power to deprive me of my fundamental rights to liberty, to 
property, and privacy, is to be reasonable and necessary to protect 
the rights of others, public safety. Getting stoned at home does not 
threaten the rights of others.

The judiciary has declared the use of police power to proscribe 
marijuana is rational because marijuana is not a fundamental right. 
Some where the judiciary, (press) has stop recognizing the use of 
police power is to deprive us of our fundamental rights to liberty, 
property, and to privacy.

The question for a judge is whether the proscription of marijuana is 
unreasonable and unnecessary police regulation of a person's 
fundamental rights to privacy, to liberty and to property and 
contravenes the Fourth, Fifth or Fourteenth Amendments of the 
Constitution of the United States?

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Someone with standing should take the U.S. Attorney John Walsh to the 
U.S. District Court in a Declaratory Judgment lawsuit because the 
proscription of marijuana is a fundamental rights issue not a 
political question.

MICHAEL J. DEE

Windham, Maine
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