2011 LEGISLATURE: LEAVE VOTER-PASSED INITIATIVE ALONE

"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed." Voters give lawmakers their power to be
government, therefore, a ballot intuitive instituted by voters cannot
be nullified by legislators who derive their powers from the same voters.

If you are saying a law made by voters is nullifiable by legislators,
then you must say that a entire government made by voters is also
nullifiable, that legislators could take away other powers of the
people such as the right to vote itself, saying not only are the
voters unfit to pass their own laws but are unfit to elect those who
make the laws for them.

The medical marijuana law was passed just the way it is and only the
voters have the right to repeal it. Maybe the voters passed it because
the state refused to allow a ballot initiative that legalized it
completely and voters tired of wasting taxpayers money and imprisoning
their friends, family, and neighbors; maybe voters passed it because
everything you can say bad about cannabis you can say worse about
alcohol including violence, theft, deaths and addiction; maybe because
narcotic prescriptions from doctors are far more addicting; maybe they
would rather see money go to tax-paying Montana growers and sellers
then to Mexican cartels and illegal dealers who also sell harder drugs
that might be pushed on buyers; maybe they passed it because the
Senate failed to pass it on their own because they fear losing votes
from those who wish to impose their morals on others. But the point is
voters passed it exactly the way it is.

Jeffrey-James Halvorson

Arlee