Hey ageists, how about telling us again how the federal 21 drinking age law that you supported was not a slippery slope? Because now they are using the exact same specious and tortured logic to target a different, less dangerous substance that already has an age limit of 21 in every state that legalized it so far.
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Stop The STOP POT Act
While there are several bills in Congress to legalize cannabis at the federal level, there is also a Republican bill that seeks to do the opposite: the STOP POT Act. Modeled explicitly after the ageist and illiberal abomination that is the National Minimum Drinking Age Act that flies in the face of the Constitution but was upheld by SCOTUS anyway, this at least equally horrible bill would withhold 10% of highway funding from any state in which recreational cannabis is legal. Hopefully it will be defeated.
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The National Minimum Drinking Act should be repealed. It violates the 10th amendment, 21st amendment and the rights and privileges of young adults who are 18-20 years old. The STOP Act takes its queues from this bad law. Cannabis should be legalized, whether at the federal level or at the state level. The minimum age for smoking and possessing Cannabis should be 18. Likewise, the legal drinking age should be lowered to 18, either at the federal level or at the state levels. States should be allowed to decide if they want to legalize Cannabis or not.
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