Negative effects on personal liberty--Measure 80 part 7

  The next bit is a bit long and uses some arcane vocabulary (for some of which I've linked to wiktionary definitions), but it is really just an outline of the detrimental effects cannabis prohibition has on the rights and freedoms of Oregon citizens, and why it stands in violation of the Oregon Constitution:

Whereas the people hold that cannabis prohibition is a sumptuary law of a nature repugnant to our constitution’s framers and which is so unreasonable and liberticidal as to:

(a) Arbitrarily violate the rights of cannabis users to be secure against unreasonable search and seizure as guaranteed to them by Article 1, Section 9 of the Oregon Constitution;

(b) Unreasonably impose felony burdens on the cannabis users while the state grants special privileges to alcohol users, which violates Article 1, Section 20 of the Oregon Constitution;

(c) Unnecessarily proscribe consumption of a “herb bearing seed” given to humanity in Genesis 1:29, thereby violating their unqualified religious rights under Article 1, Section 3 and their Natural Rights under Article 1, Section 33 of the Oregon Constitution;

(d) Violates the individual’s right to privacy and numerous other Natural and Constitutional Rights reserved to the people under Article 1, Section 33 of the Oregon Constitution;

(e) Violates the state’s right to regulate and tax commerce within the state, as reserved to states under the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, thereby abdicating control to illicit markets; and,

(f) Irrationally subvert the ends to which, in its Preamble, the Oregon Constitution was ordained and the purposes, in Article 1, Section 1, for which our government was instituted; now,

  By voting this into law, Oregon citizens are showing that we believe cannabis prohibition is inhibiting freedoms granted to us by the Oregon Constitution.

     (a) Because cannabis users are subject to unreasonable serach and seizure.

     (b) Article 1, Section 20 reads, in full:  "No law shall be passed granting to any citizen or class of 

          citizens privileges, or immunities, which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all 

          citizens."  Adults over 21 who choose to use alcohol recreationally are afforded a privilege that

          is not given to adults over 21 who choose to use cannabis recreationally.

     (c & d) Article 1, Section 33 reads, in full: "This enumeration of rights, and privileges shall not be 

          construed to impair or deny others retained by the people."  There are no laws banning the use 

          of basil or thyme, because they are natural plants.  How can a naturally occuring plant be 

          illegal?  Also, what a person chooses to ingest is nobody's business but his or her own.

     (e)  According to the 10th Amendment of the US Constitution, the state of Oregon gets to decide 

           what gets bought and sold within Oregon's borders.

     (f)  The Preamble to the Oregon Constitution reads, in full: "We the people of the State of Oregon 

           to the end that Justice be established, order maintained, and liberty perpetuated, do ordain this 

           Constitution."  Cannabis prohibition subverts justice, breeds chaos and cuts short liberty.

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