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Interpretation: Legalization requires regulation
Caulkins et al 12 Dr. Jonathan P. Caulkins (Stever Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University),
Dr. Angela Hawken (Associate Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University), Dr. Beau Kilmer (Co-Director of the RAND Drug Policy
Research Center), Dr. Mark Kleiman (Professor of Public Policy at UCLA). 'Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs To Know' Authors
Discuss Risks And Rewards Of Legal Weed The Huffington Post | By Matt Ferner Posted: 09/04/2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/04/marijuana-legalization-research_n_1850470.html, mmm/uco
The term legalization without any qualification means that the substance would be treated more or
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, including those pertaining to emissions, fuel economy, and crash safety.
Rescheduling is not legalization or regulations.
Reid 14 New Mexico Law Review Spring, 2014 New Mexico Law Review 44 N.M.L. Rev. 169 LENGTH: 17061
words ARTICLE: THE QUAGMIRE THAT NOBODY IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WANTS TO TALK ABOUT:
MARIJUANA NAME: Melanie Reid * BIO: * Associate Professor of Law, Lincoln Memorial University-Duncan School
of Law, mmm/uco
Schedule I substances have a high potential for abuse, have no accepted medical use
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pharmaceutical companies would be the safer method to ingest CBD for medicinal purposes.
Violation: The aff doesn’t require regulation DE scheduling does nothing about proper
regulations, which makes them decriminalization
Predictable limits: It’s impossible to predict affs that don’t defend full legalization, or
are functionally decriminalization. Their interp makes our pre tournament prep
useless and forces us to cut what should be aff arguments
Ground: They get to spike out of disads because they don’t require heavy regulation
and we don’t get the decrim counterplan, or any of our specific case turns to
predictable legalization regulations
T is a voter and should be evaluated through competing interpretations
EPA Passage
Text: The United States Federal Government should resection and pass the upcoming
amendment to the Clean Water and Air Act regulating Carbon Emissions for power
plants.
Counterplan solves warming better than the Aff.
(“FACT SHEET: Clean Power Plan Overview CUTTING CARBON POLLUTION FROM POWER PLANTS”
Freddy)
On June 2, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
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movement to produce and consume energy in a better, more sustainable way.
Central Valley
A shaky solution to California’s drought is coming now—any derailment crushes
California’s economy
Bernstein 2014 (Sharon; Amid drought, California Democrats seek Republican votes on water plan;
Aug 12; www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/12/us-usa-california-drought-idUSKBN0GC27F20140812;
kdf)
(Reuters) - California
Democrats scrambled on Tuesday to win Republican support for a
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to the Central Valley, a major farming area that relies on irrigation.
Unique Link- Water use in California is unstable now- legalization guarantees endless
drought, collapse of fish stocks and biodiversity
NBC News 2014 (Water-guzzling pot plants draining drought-wracked California; Jul 7;
www.nbcnews.com/storyline/legal-pot/water-guzzling-pot-plants-draining-drought-wracked-californian149861; kdf)
California cannabis growers may be making millions, but their thirsty plants are sucking up
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consultant for MC2, a service that helps people obtain medical marijuana cards.
The plan would crush the food supply
Neslage 2014 (Stephen; Califronia drought threatens food supply of all americans; collapsing aquifer sinking the land; May 29;
www.weather.com/tv/tvshows/americas-morning-headquarters/california-drought-cracked-20140521; kdf)
Walk into any grocery store in America and there's a good chance the fresh produce
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. The land will stay subsided." 1 / 10 Severe Drought in California
Food shortages outweigh the aff’s impacts
Snyder 2010 (Michael; 5 Dangers To Global Crops That Could Dramatically Reduce The World Food
Supply; Oct 29; theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/5-dangers-to-global-crops-that-coulddramatically-reduce-the-world-food-supply; kdf)
The world food situation is starting to get very, very tight. Unprecedented heat
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believe. At some point, it is going to be tested severely.
Overthrow
Crist leads by 5% with a 3% margin of error. While Marijuana is up to 67% approval
when polled
PORL 10 – 9 (Public Opinion Research Laboratory’s (PORL) 27-polling stations at UNF. Through the use
of Random-Digit-Dialing methodology, Thursday, October 9, 2014“UNF Poll Reveals Crist Leads in Florida
Governor Race” Freddy)
A new University of North Florida statewide poll reveals Charlie Crist has a five percentage
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possess small amounts of marijuana for recreational use, which is 44 percent.
Plan removes Florida’s amendment from the ballot killing the Democrats’ chances to
mobilize the youth vote against Scott
Grimm 14 Fred Grimm: Florida Democrats are hoping pot issue will pull young voters to the polls BY
FRED GRIMM Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/08/16/4292025/fred-grimm-demsare-hoping-pot.html, mmm/uco
It’s an electoral strategy complicated by a smoky paradox. That a mighty hoard of
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18-29 turnout rise from 12 percent in 2008 to 17 percent.
Crist is rallying Cuban support for change in embargo status towards Cuba. Scott is
keeping the squo status on Cuba
Guion 14 (Payton Guion Jul 06, 2014 Journalist “Cuban-American Politics: Florida Democrats Pushing
for Renewed Relations With Cuba” Freddy)
But as a new generation of Cuban-Americans could hold sway in Florida elections
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and oppose the oppression of Cuba," Scott said, according to AP.
Lifting the embargo on Cuba is key to recover US influence and soft power.
Perez 10 (David, “America’s Cuba Policy: The Way Forward: A Policy Recommendation for the US State
Department,” Harvard Latino Law Review, Lexis Nexis)
In order to effectively employ soft power in Latin America, the U.S
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throughout Latin America, and would go a long way toward creating goodwill.
Soft power key to stop cartels.
NYE 3 Joseph S. Nye Jr., Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Foreign Affairs, July/August
2003.
THE WILLINGNESS of other countries to cooperate in dealing with transnational issues such as terrorism
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in dealing with the transnational issues that require multilateral cooperation for their solution.
Case
Warming
Amending the CSA will not promote cooperative federalism. That struggle with warming is going on
now. The Counter plan resolves the issue.
A) Reducing coal consumption is key to solving global warming – coal is the single
biggest contributor to climate change
Markham 9 [Derek Markham, “Global Warming Effects and Causes: A Top 10 List,” 7 Jun 2009,
http://planetsave.com/2009/06/07/global-warming-effects-and-causes-a-top-10-list/] // myost
1. Global Warming Cause: Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning power plants
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are highly dependent on burning coal for our personal and commercial electrical supply.
B. Solving climate change requires an international effort, not just the U.S.
DUTTA & RADNER 12 1. Prajit K. Dutta, Professor of Economics at Columbia University, Ph.D. in
Economics from Cornell University, 2. Roy Radner, Professor of Business at New York University, Ph.D. in
Mathematical Statistics from University of Chicago, distinguished fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. (Prajit K. Dutta and Roy Radner: “Capital growth in a global warming model: will China
and India sign a climate treaty?”, in Economic Theory Vol. 49 Iss. 2, 2012, p. 412,
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~rradner/publishedpapers2/113CapitalGrowth2012.pdf)
Global climate change (CC) has emerged as the most important environmental issue of
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today’s developed economies and make it impossible to solve the climate change
problem.
Cartels
Legalization fuels drug cartels- they are the only ones who can meet demand
Stimson 10 Manager, National Security Law Program and Senior Legal Fellow The Kathryn and Shelby
Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies The Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign
Policy at The Heritage FoundationLegal Memorandum #56 on Legal Issues September 13, 2010
Legalizing Marijuana: Why Citizens Should Just Say No By Charles "Cully" Stimson
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/09/legalizing-marijuana-why-citizens-should-just-sayno, mmm/uco
Additionally, making marijuana legal in California will fuel drug cartels and violence, particularly
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to grow more marijuana to feed the demand and exploit the black market.
The aff doesn’t solve cartels- multiple reasons. Switches to opium and are adaptive.
Zaiac 14
(Nick, 5-21-14, Nick Zaiac is a public-policy researcher based in Washington, DC. He spends his days shedding
light on the regulatory state. He holds a degree in international economic policy from American University.,
“Marijuana Legalization Won’t Crowd Out Cartels”, http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/21/marijuana-legalizationwont-crowd-out-cartels/, JKS)
Everyone agrees that drug cartels are terrible, violent organizations, which is probably why
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but it is unlikely that it will kill the cartels by any means.
The cartels won’t engage with Hezbollah
Gaouette 9/10
(Nicole, reporter at Bloomberg, Islamic State Talked of Entering U.S. Through Mexico,
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-10/islamic-state-talked-of-entering-u-s-through-mexico.html, JKS)
Taylor said the security of the U.S.’s southwest border remains a
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Iraq, said Nicholas Rasmussen, deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
Even massive Mexican instability doesn’t get close to state collapse or spilling over to
affect the U.S.
Jenkins, 2009 (Brian Michael, Senior Advisor to the President of the RAND Corporation, 3/23/9, “Mexico: Failing State?,”
http://security.nationaljournal.com/2009/03/mexico-failing-state.php)
A recent Pentagon study concluded that Mexico, like Pakistan, could suffer a “
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if the violence were to spread across the border into the United States.
The word terrorism creates a victimized image of the occident due to the actions of “Islam”—
this ramps up to global “wars on terror” to spread democratic ideals and American
propaganda
Badiou 2006 (Alain, Polemics, Verso, p. 15-17, kdf)
The destruction of New York's Twin Towers by planes whose passengers and neo-pilots – those
assassinating impostors -- were transformed into incendiary projectiles brought about every where a particular affect. Even for th ose who more or less s ecretly celeb ra ted – an ex tremely num erou s
crow d, s om e hundreds of millions of enemies of the lugubrious and solitary American superpower -- it nonetheless
amounted to an unbelievable mass crime. 'Attack' is an inappropriate word; it evokes the nihilist bombings of
the Tsar's coaches, or the attack of Sarajevo. It has a fin de siede ring to it, but is of another century. ,At the beginning of this
the self-evidence of that affect registers the extraordinary combination of violence,
calm, quiet relentlessness, organization, indifference to destruction,
millennium,
agony , and fire that is required in today's technologically sophisticated conditions to
bring about
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subject (`the West') and the sequence (`the war against terrorism').
The aff doesn’t solve cartels- multiple reasons. Switches to opium and ar
Cartel violence is on the decline
Walter 14
(Jan, , 7-9-14, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public HealthViolence on the
decline in Mexico's war on drugs, http://www.dw.de/violence-on-the-decline-in-mexicos-war-on-drugs/a17906401, JKS)
Steady decline in murder rate¶ Under Enrique Peña Nieto,
Calderon's successor who has
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, falling from an average of 52 murders a month to just eight.
Cartels will just use using legal shops to make money illegally- Colorado proves
Daily Mail UK 14
-steal money from banks no banks take money
-cartels move into Colorado front legal
(2-17-14,
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keep a lower profile in Colorado to avoid drawing attention to their activities.