Also if you look at how our country was founded and the true intent of the law.
Each state was and should be its own individual country in many ways.
If that state chose to become part of the union it chose to adopt the US constitution and the bill of rights.
And at one time the option to bail out.
That was contested in the time of Andrew Jackson with the south around 30 years before the civil war.
Some states were annexed like Utah.
Every time we turn around the federal government breaks those laws in one way or another.
And the states do the same.
At one time you could go from one state to the next without fear of breaking these laws.
This is getting worse and worse.
Look at weed you leave a harmless joint or gun in your car perfectly legal to all the powers that be.
Just dont go across the border.
In many ways state lines are becoming more and more like borders because that is exactly what they are.
Many times if a state doesn't adopt certain laws like helmet speed limits or seat belts the feds will threaten to cut off federal funding.
This federal money by the way that was collected from the individuals of each state.
By way of income taxes DOT taxes on tires or fuel.
Now lets say the Feds collect so and so amount of money from states that allow selling of weed.
Should all of the money go back to those states and federal projects.
Or should states that dont make it legal collect these benefits too.
Why should a rich state like Texas bare the burden of a poor state that does nothing to help fill the federal coffers but only pulls from it?
Now lets look at prisons many of which are filled with folks on drug related charges.
Like it or not prisons are a money making machine sucking that money from the tax payer.
Many if not most of these prisoners are people from poor areas and uneducated.
Poverty ignorance and want are the rules of the game.
If poverty ignorance and want are making people rich by way of prisons then why would you want to change one dam thing.
If you look at it from my perspective these poor areas are in a way money makers for the rich.
They always have been and always will.
This BS that is fed to us about cleaning them up and education that never seems to happen is just window dressing.
The only time it ((looks)) like something good is happening is when they go in and re gentrify an area for the well off to move into.
The poverty pocket and crime just moves to another area they can afford.
They may call it cleaning up I call it sweeping under the rug or out the door.
So in short.
A group of people will sit down and decide what can make more money.
Is it more prisons funded by the tax payer or legalizing weed and collecting taxes.
It is your poverty pocket that will make that decision not the voter.
That my fine feathered friends is why it will be a long time coming before Texas ever makes pot legal.
They only use the moral and health issues as levers to sway the voters.
Remember every one of these prisons are built by and sometimes ran by contractors.
For the most part the same contractors over and over.
Contractors that are in bed with the elected.
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