Are our laws becoming more illogical?

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Are our laws becoming more illogical?

One example might be, marijuana can be bought legally in a few states.

But the FDA still lists it as dangerous.

Might some person be able to give a list of “illogical” laws?

Laws that contradict each other!

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How about the fact that ignorance of the law is no excuse, but there are far too many laws for a person to be able to know them all.
 
No, I don’t think our laws are becoming illo h ical so much as we’ve sadly lost the arts of compromise, civil discourse, and bipartisanship.
 
How about the fact that ignorance of the law is no excuse, but there are far too many laws for a person to be able to know them all.
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This is probably why God did not want to appoint a leader over the Israelites, but they insisted they wanted and needed one. 1 Samuel 8.

The only law I know that works is the law of love, given by Jesus Christ.
 
Law has always been illogical, or at best, extralogical. Physical force does not depend upon logic. And without that, you don’t have law.

In the USA and in other nations that are similarly structured, some of the illogic arises from federalism: the central body saying one thing while local authorities say something else. But there’s often no way to tell who is right, if either is.

ICXC NIKA
 
There’s also the elephant in the room: we claim to champion human rights, the weak, poor, and the underrepresented, yet we allow the murder of the most innocent, weak, poor, underrepresented humans of all.

Christi pax,

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Yes, they are. I had the unpleasent experience to learn about two teenagers that died in a car crash several years ago because of an extremely high THC level in their systems. They were Illegally high by federal standards. yet here we are, wanting to remove the federal ban on marijuana. And, if i dare say, the bathroom bills are really a sort of countermeasure the government uses to ignore the big problem. The fact is, some politicians are cowards, in the way that instead of dealling with a major issue like drugs in the community, they would rather take the easy way out, their logic being, “If people can smoke cigarettes with tobacco and 49k other hazardous chemicals in it, why not marijuana? It will bring revenue in.” Again, this is sort of a cowards logic to bend with what is common trends in society, rather than say, No, I will not pass this law because we have bigger issues, like thousands of people homeless, a failing economy, schools that dont challenge students enough. We used to be the greatest country in the world, but now… now we are a husk of what we once were.

~AlphaFoxtrotNW
(P.S sorry mods if this post is long, I felt that this needed to be said.)
 
There are lots of things that are dangerous, but aren’t illegal. In fact, I think the control and prohibition of marijuana is logically inconsistent consider how alcohol is treated.
 
I tried marijuana 50 years ago, and I know there is a high that lasts a while – and I only smoked a couple puffs.

If pot is legalized, we’ll all be smoking it second-hand, if not directly. We’ll frequently have it in our bloodstreams.

One of the big problems is that it will get into the hands of kids, young people with driver’s licenses.

Even in the states where it is legal, I am of the impression that it is ridiculously expensive, not the cash crop it was in the early years of the US. (Maybe I’m wrong on this matter of price. legal or illegal, I don’t know the street price, either)_
 
I tried marijuana 50 years ago, and I know there is a high that lasts a while – and I only smoked a couple puffs.

If pot is legalized, we’ll all be smoking it second-hand, if not directly. We’ll frequently have it in our bloodstreams.

One of the big problems is that it will get into the hands of kids, young people with driver’s licenses.

Even in the states where it is legal, I am of the impression that it is ridiculously expensive, not the cash crop it was in the early years of the US. (Maybe I’m wrong on this matter of price. legal or illegal, I don’t know the street price, either)_
Did Americans smoke weed in the 17 and 1800s? I’d always understood it to be a modern youth thing (and a postmodern lifelong thing).

Of course it’s expensive where legal. Someone’s got to pay for the licensing, inspections, etc. And, of course, the taxes.

ICXC NIKA
 
Are our laws becoming more illogical?

One example might be, marijuana can be bought legally in a few states.

But the FDA still lists it as dangerous.

Might some person be able to give a list of “illogical” laws?

Laws that contradict each other!

THANKS!
I actually love it. Because it’s laws based on the local populace voting in a state or municipality vs. what Washington D.C. deems appropriate. I myself am a proponent of more state rights.
 
As the sheer number of laws ever increases, and there are, no exaggeration, hundreds more every year, and when no one is sure exactly how many federal regulations there are, there are going to be some laws that are contradictory, or at least evince opposed policies.
 
Are our laws becoming more illogical?

One example might be, marijuana can be bought legally in a few states.

But the FDA still lists it as dangerous.

Might some person be able to give a list of “illogical” laws?

Laws that contradict each other!

THANKS!
Your example is conflicting, not illogical.
The interweb isn’t big enough to list the ‘illogical’ laws. 😉
 
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