[eno_]

Chicago must also bow down to federal drug laws, or else get the smacking they deserve.

I'm sure you can point to where in the Constitution, chapter and verse, the fedgov is authorized to do that. I guess pot smoke crosses state lines and that's commerce?

[SteveMcKing]

Meh. Details..... (I fancy myself a culture warrior, not a Constitutionalist.)

[robertpaulsen]

"I'm sure you can point to where in the Constitution, chapter and verse, the fedgov is authorized to do that."

I can.

Article VI, Clause 2. Supremacy Clause.

"This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding."

If federal law conflicts with state law, the federal law prevails.