From the Boston Globe:
New Hampshire’s House voted Wednesday to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana by adults, but the victory was followed immediately by the governor’s pledge to veto the bill adults to possess one-quarter ounce or less of the substance It also would decriminalize transporting less than one- quarter ounce of the drug
New Hampshire’s bill is HB1653
CLICK HERE – for the Tenth Amendment Center’s legislative tracking page for state marijuana laws
While I favor the recreational use and abuse of drugs being illegal, I cannot see how their could rightly be any federal laws against such, anymore than against alcohol, without a Constitutional amendment. I suppose one could argue such laws are in the interest of the general welfare, but that's a stretched application at best.
However I fully support the right of States to legislate concerning such. It's not that I want drugs legalized. Such is immoral, destructive of both the individual, family, and community, sinful even, and should be illegal. Yet, it should be made so in legal, constitutional, American fashion.
Besides, the issue of personal choice, taken apart from the counter balance of societal good, is a slippery slope that leads to anarchism. In short … the States can, and I believe should, exercise authority in criminalizing such. Yet, it's a matter left to the States themselves, respectively.
The war on drugs is beginning to seem like a big waste of time and, dare I say, unamerican. Its essentially a war on someone's personal choice over their own lives which is why it is unamerican. Don't get me wrong. Drugs are bad for you and should never be done but should I or anyone else have the right to make that choice for you?