What a stupid waste of time. Remove marijuana from DEA schedules and let the States each do what they want.
Agree.
Sessions is so out of touch.
I agree, yet with all the recreance from ‘sanctuary’ states I don’t see what options they have.
Congress wants to change the law and legalize marijuana, pass veto proof or agreeable legislation like the Constitution demands. If states want to be left in abeyance of certain laws, the better understand it’s at the largess of the federal government and treat them with respect. Else our Civil War meant nothing.
Just to be clear up front: If I had the power to prohibit marijuana I would do it.
But the issue of Federal authority vs. State authority is much more important than my personal views about the demon weed.
In 1917, when Congress decided it wanted to ban fermented plant products (alcohol), they realized that the Constitution granted them no such power and that an Amendment would be required in order to make the Volstead Act constitutional.
In 1970, when Congress decided it wanted to exercise legislative authority over other plant products (marijuana), they just went right ahead and did it.
If the Volstead Act would have been unconstitutional without the XVII Amendment, what makes the marijuana portions of the Controlled Substances Act constitutional?
States which are legalizing marijuana are making a serious error, in my opinion. But I have no question that they have the authority to do this.
I have serious doubts that Congress has, or had, the authority to ban it.