LOL @ small government

[75th]

U.S. Drug Policy Would Be Imposed Globally By New House Bill

The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill yesterday that would make it a federal crime for U.S. residents to discuss or plan activities on foreign soil that, if carried out in the U.S., would violate the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) -- even if the planned activities are legal in the countries where they're carried out. The new law, sponsored by Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) allows prosecutors to bring conspiracy charges against anyone who discusses, plans or advises someone else to engage in any activity that violates the CSA, the massive federal law that prohibits drugs like marijuana and strictly regulates prescription medication.

"Under this bill, if a young couple plans a wedding in Amsterdam, and as part of the wedding, they plan to buy the bridal party some marijuana, they would be subject to prosecution," said Bill Piper, director of national affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance, which advocates for reforming the country's drug laws. "The strange thing is that the purchase of and smoking the marijuana while you're there wouldn't be illegal. But this law would make planning the wedding from the U.S. a federal crime."

 

[mrplunkey]

It's most definitely aimed at couples wanting to marry in Amsterdam and buy their wedding party some pot.

And why would anyone from Texas sponsor anything like that? They obviously aren't near any other countries that have any narco-manufacturing issues.

 

[75th]

And why would anyone from Texas sponsor anything like that?

lol @ attempting to justify this.

Punishing someone for planning to travel outside of the US in order to do something that is perfectly legal in the country of destination makes no sense.

Unless, of course, you're just for expanding the size and reach of the government.

 

[-SD-]

LOL @ US Drug policy as a whole. Since we dont export shit anymore, does this count as export revenue for the US? lololo

 

[75th]

LOL @ US Drug policy as a whole.

This indeed.

 

[mrplunkey]

Don't I have a constitutional right to serve my Mexico-based meth labs from my Laredo-based consulting company???

 

[75th]

Hold the phone....plunkey missed the point?

 

[mrplunkey]

Let's see...

I can currently go down to Mexico and setup a massive meth lab without breaking any US laws.

But if I pay the mayor in that Mexican town $1,000/week to leave me alone, I've violated an existing US law.

So now we get to my point, my small government ally: Shouldn't we repeal the foreign corrupt practices act as well as slap-down this new proposal?

 

[lartinos]

I don't get it. I guess they are going after bigtime drug dealers? Even still it sounds shady.

 

[mrplunkey]

I don't get it. I guess they are going after bigtime drug dealers? Even still it sounds shady.

They are trying to stop people from orchestrating illegal events overseas and escaping US law because the acts weren't committed on US soil. These kinds of laws have been around since the 1970's (and probably even before).

It's easy to use this law as an example of big government, but as long as we're going to keep drugs illegal here it makes no sense to let US citizens facilitate drug operations outside the US.

So this is a fun Internet debating topic for closet liberals, but not very interesting outside of that context.