SUPREME COURT RULING: You can arrest those using marijuana for medical purposes

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Per Fox News:

The Supreme Court has ruled Medical Marijuana as illegal.

[shellshocked]

Doritos and Pringles brands will see a slump in stock price today.

[rwfromkansas]

good point.

I find this disturbing. I very much agree with those who say private things have ripple effects in society, which is why I am not libertarian.

But what case can honestly be made against medical pot? I can't think of anything significant.

And, it has been shown that those who use pot are much less likely to go to other drugs, they stick with pot and don't move on to things more dangerous.

I say legalize it.

[oblomov]

OK, medical marijuana wasn't "ruled illegal," the Court ruled that power should be delegated to the states on this matter.

[jwalsh07]

Perhaps you can point me to those conservatives supporting the usurptation of state powers by the oligarch. I don't see it. What I see is almost everybody agreeing that the issue belongs to the state legislature and the people who elect them.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

I would've bet money that Thomas would be among the dissenters, but Rehnquist? Did not some of his decisions in the early days of the Drug War reduce the 4th Amendment to ashes? Perhaps he's repenting now that he sees his days are numbered . . .

Considering he has cancer himself.... I think he would have recused himself, if he had actually used medical marijuana, but I'd place a small bet -- maybe doubling up on the one I would've won earlier -- that he has first-hand knowledge of some people who do.

[Fabozz]

"So are we going to fill the prisons with cancer patients?"

Well that's one way to get nationalized health care: Throw all the sick people in jail.

[missyme]

I guess the feds can use there infaray lights to check on every house in the nation to see who has a vegetable garden..Well Money Spent!

ThanK GOd these judges are hitting the Old Old Age Marker

[highball]

The federal government is our represenatives. We the people elect the senators and represenatives. I would rather they didn't create as many laws as they create, and left more room for local or state laws. But I get out voted on that. However, I REALLY would rather the legislative body create the laws instead of the S.C. creating them.

Of course we elect federal representatives. That doesn't mean that the federal representatives ought to have dominion over everything. State legislatures are closer to the people and therefore should have as much sovereignty as possible. I thought that was a bedrock coservative principle.

So what laws should be left up to the states? What's the point of state legislatures if the federal government can overrule them at will?

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...But what case can honestly be made against medical pot?...

Come on, all these pot smokers die. We've got to save them from themselves even if we have to bankrupt the country by imprisoning them all.

Sure, a few may die resisting arrest or being manhandled by the JBT's, but that's a small price to pay to keep the nation safe from the bedridden and wheelchair bound reefer maddened savages.

[oblomov]

Ridiculous.... that's the case that effectively put any transaction within the scope of federal power.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

but I'd place a small bet -- maybe doubling up on the one I would've won earlier -- that he has first-hand knowledge of some people who do.

Could be, could be. I'm still shocked that he dissented. SHOCKED.

[JeffAtlanta]

Yeah.... it was about to be one of the few times I'm embarrassed to be a Republican, until I saw who was in the dissent.

A republican administration was the one prosecuting the case. People won't remember that the conservative judges disagreed with this ruling - what will be remembered is that a republican administration pushed for this decision and the republican base cheered it on when it was announced.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

And, it has been shown that those who use pot are much less likely to go to other drugs, they stick with pot and don't move on to things more dangerous.

What were you smoking when you read that?

[missyme]

say legalize it.

The Pharmecutical Industry won't allow it!

[KarlInOhio]

the Court ruled that power should be delegated to the states on this matter.

Huh?????

It looks like the ruling delegated the power to the Federales and said state laws don't matter.

New and Improved Constitution.

Article I

Section 1: The Federal government can make any rule it pleases on any action that could have any effect on interstate commerce, no matter how penumbrally.

Section 2: Everything done or not done affects interstate commerce.

[rahbert]

I agree - its a dumb law and should go away, but the
way for it to go away is through legislation, not judicial
fiat.

[Quick1]

Those "jillions" of painkillers all have fun side effects. The worst side effect of pot is munchies.

Besides, pot is all-natural. Why use a bunch of synthetic pain killers when you can use what we have been using for thousands of years?

[Kryptonite]

LOL!

[Delphinium]

Ridicules,what harm is it doing?

While we have the court and prison system so full that we let child molesters out early.

[general_re]

Too many "libertarians" are only unhappy with federal judicial oligarchy when it doesn't accrue to their favor.

Everybody seems to suffer from that particular blind spot these days - "judicial activism" has been reduced to "whenever a judge makes a decision that I (we) don't like". Sigh.