To: tomakaze
I can buy the argument that the Government cannot rationally use the interstate commerce clause to regulate the growth of medicinal marijuana for use as directed by a medical doctor. However, if we are talking about a product such as hemp that is intended to be grown and used on a national basis, then that is interstate commerce and regulation of it is constitutional. Now, THAT being said, I cannot understand the suppression of the growth of hemp on any basis.
19 posted on
06/19/2005 7:09:23 AM PDT by
Enterprise
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To: Enterprise
However, if we are talking about a product such as hemp that is intended to be grown and used on a national basis, then that is interstate commerce and regulation of it is constitutional.You should read the Federalist Papers, and other writings of the founders on the issue of what is and is not "commerce", as well as what their concept of what "regulation" of said commerce involved. I don't beleive you can objectively justify that statement without rejecting their definitions of those terms and replacing them with others that are substantially different.
28 posted on
06/19/2005 7:39:58 AM PDT by
tacticalogic
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