Topics: Georgia, Politicians on Pot, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, RepublicanThank you for contacting me regarding the use and decriminalization of marijuana. I sincerely appreciate hearing from you on this issue.
The Supreme Court decision in Gonzales v. Raich regarding medical marijuana made it clear that the U.S. Congress has the authority to regulate the use of marijuana within the states. Any change to the drug laws to allow medical marijuana would require a change in law passed by Congress and signed by the President.
While I am a strong believer in personal freedom, I do not support the recreational or medical use of illegal drugs regardless of whether the drug is marijuana, cocaine, or any other illegal substance. Congress has made decisions to protect our nation from certain illegal drugs, and allowing each state to make its own decision would adversely affect the protections that exist against those substances.
Hearing the views of all Georgians gives me the opportunity to better understand how important issues could impact the people of Georgia and the future interests of the nation. As your representative, I appreciate your opinion. Unfortunately, this is one of the issues I feel strongly about and I cannot support legislation to decriminalize marijuana use.
Thanks again for taking the time to contact me. For additional information regarding current legislation and the Third District, I invite you to visit my website at http://www.house.gov/westmoreland.
Sincerely,
Lynn A Westmoreland
Member of Congress
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My GA rep says pretty much the same thing. Supports the view of keeping the govt out of our lives but wants to continue to allow the govt to tell us what we can and can’t put in our bodies. My GA rep also doesn’t want health care, but if you look back, you’ll see he’s a former insurance exec. Go figure! They are just old southern republican bible beaters with old southern republican views with old southern republican bible beater voters. I am convinced that the only way we are going to get anything done in GA is with time. People and views eventually dying with time. We just can’t outvote the old people in this state. It seems like all the GA politicians are cut from the same mold. In the interim, I will continue to bombard the GA politicians with my mail. Atlanta will HAVE TO lead the way on this. ATL is the most progressive area in GA and will have to be at the forefront for any other counties and districts to act. I am only 20 mins from FL and Fl seems to be running at a much faster pace. I want access in my state but I know how GA is. Ga will wait to be the last state to do anything (We are only 1 of two states that does not allow the sale of alcohol on Sunday) and GA will wait for every other state to get a foothold in the market so we CAN’T make money off of it later. The only way I can see it flying in GA is to push the hemp and farming card. Farmers and bible thumpers are the only voices that get heard here. With our unemployment, flat farm lands, and year round sunshine, hemp could probably get 2 crops a year in GA b/c of the weather. GA would be awesome for growing, too bad we are too stupid or too set in our ways to see the light of the truth.
Typical paid-for-by-prohibition doublespeak.
On his website, this guy with a chick’s name claims to be pro-patient, while backing a republican plan to block health-care reform with the despicably deceptive name of “Empowering Patients First Act” which is HR 3400. He could not care less about patients’ suffering and their being un- and under-insured.
The title of his video says it all: “Special interests rule health care talks” (don’t bother watching it, he’s predictably pro-insurance companies)
Besides his insurance co. backers, he’s obviously in the pocket of various other big business concerns like pharmaceutical manufacturers, the alcohol and tobacco lobbies, and the prison industrial complex / law-enfarcement (correct spelling for farcical enforcement).
What more can I say? Vote him out. Print his comments in public forums to publicize his lunatic views. Speak out in favor of political ouster of elected officials who spread lies for financial gain. That’s it, in a nutshell.
The first-class douche is right about this bullshit. We had Justices Clarence Thomas, Sandra Day O’Connor, and William Rehnquist on the side of good. All four of the “liberals” voted the wrong ways as did Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy. Scalia voted against his soi-disant “originalist” principles and Kennedy was similarly hypocritical in running from his purported “libertarianism.”
In retrospect, we know that Rehnquist had a short time to live and would soon succumb to cancer. O’Connor is still with us.
The left-wing part of the court (all those not mentioned above) had a choice: federal pre-eminence everywhere and always or allowing the state to exercise its traditional police powers and opposing overcriminalization.
Once again, they betrayed the spirit of the Nineth amendment, the Tenth amendment, and liberty itself.
(I used to be a Teaching Assistant for Con Law and all I could tell you is that the thoroughgoing hypocrisy of the Court makes it impossible to teach the undergrads anything about the principles of jurisprudence. The court is derelict in its duty to protect constitutional rights without regards to the other branches of government or even so-called “tyranny of the majority” (e.g., public pressure).
Who was that famous legal mind who said that “<a href="http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:Cs95YlrL5dEJ:www.bartleby.com/73/1002.html+%22the+law+is+a+ass%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a"the law is a ass?