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By Michael Felberbaum
RICHMOND
A Virginia lawmaker's proposal to study the possibility of selling marijuana through state-run liquor stores has gone up in smoke.
The joint resolution from Del. David Englin of Alexandria was tabled Thursday night in a subcommittee of the House Rules Committee.
Under the resolution, members of the General Assembly would have studied the potential revenue impact of selling pot at Virginia's more than 330 ABC stores.
Another resolution to get the governor to petition the federal Drug Enforcement Agency to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule II drug also failed earlier this week.
Englin had cited states with medical marijuana laws, societal changes and the need for more revenue for the proposals.
Supporters of the proposals say they're not surprised by the outcome but glad the issue is getting attention.
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selling weed in Va
Every one Knows where the weed is already. Its being sold illegally, on the streets and in drug dealers homes and in our schools.
I will repeat that And in our schools. That will never change unless POT becomes LEGAL. Either way we will always be able to get it no matter what. The drug war is lost. So, Might as well Sell good quality weed in the liqour store. Get it off the streets, Put Unofficial dealers out of buisness and out of our kids schools. The government will make Billions. One pound of dank is at 3300 dollars if not more on the street. So, if you want to put your local Illegal pot dealer out of business , and make alot of money doing it, Legalize the sale of weed , and Sell it in the liquor store. Its basic elementary Watson.
dopies
Why is the Commonwealth selling booze?
Why are governments forcing banks to mortgage broke people?
Why are Feds involved in the drug war when the Constitution doesn't grant them the power?
And WHY is pot a schedule 1 drug, on par with meth and herroin and "more dangerous" than coccaine?
It's gotten out of hand friends. Special interests, media, and politicans have taken us hostage.
Freedom returned
No biggy, this was to be expected comming from our VA General Assembly.
I was just glad to see the subject broached in these conservative halls, and some awareness being made behind what is popular consensus.
The tide is changing folks, if ever so slowly. Expect this uncontitutional abnormalty to be excised from this great country one day, rendering it truely free once again.
The only reason it hasn't been rescinded, is a flawed lobbyist form of government. Sadly SCOTUS just upped the ante with unrestricted corporate campaign contributions. We got jails to fill, and lots of jobs to go with it.
I'm a bit curious as to how
I'm a bit curious as to how banning drugs can be considered unconstitutional. Does that mean any regulation the gov't may put forth is unconstitutional as well? Just the one you don't agree with?
I'm support the decriminalization of marijuana, don't get me wrong there.
limited powers
The Constitution limits the fed's powers, and this isn't one of the expressed powers... but totalitarians can't figure that out b/c of the blinders.
Waste of time & money...
The war on drugs has and will continue to be a colossal waste of time and tax payer money. The time is past due to take a different approach to the problem, and one that will generate tax dollars as opposed to wasting millions after millions makes a lot of sense.
I agree, but...
....legalizing weed doesn't end the war on drugs. Most stoners have trouble understanding this. "Wait, wut?"
(And I say this as someone who lives with a condition for which medical marijuana is frequently touted. Looking at you, Montel....)
I'd rather see ABC out of business than to see it selling weed. Relic from the Byrd Organization, and the last great social experiment -- prohibition (and its end).
"The joint resolution..." Ha
"The joint resolution..."
Ha ha, too funny!
In all seriousness, why not study it? What harm is there in a study unless you're afraid of what the conclusion might me?
Prohibition hasn't worked in the past and won't work in the future.
It's well past time to give the war against drugs a rest.
weed
think about it, we go half way around the world chasing one man and spending billions. but yet we wont go next door. The last figure released by the Mexican government on the number of dead during its 4 1/2-year, military-led crackdown on organized crime came in January, at just over 34,000. It covered the period from the start of the drug war in December 2006 until the end of 2010.
corrupt government is the only answer for why pot is not legal too many people in the high ups have too much to lose. think about it if we sent as many troops to mexico as we have everywhere else in the world the drug war would be over in a very short time. but too many people being payed off to play the game of drug war.