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.

[missyme]

You might change your mind if you ever get Cancer or MS
My dear..

So sad your compassion you have with folks who have painful debilitating diseases...

[headsonpikes]

To paraphrase Mao --

"In the U.S., we are creating Communism with American characteristics."

[68 grunt]

Its morphine that prolongs life. It is God's gift to dying people. Cannabis, on the otherhand, is merely God's gift to people in pain.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

I'm probably just being dense, but I don't see how that applies to what I wrote. Are you saying that the will of the People, as expressed through the initiative and referendum processes should not be as binding as the will of the judges or am I just missing your point?

The will of the People should not be binding, when it is in opposition to individual rights. Judges make that decision, per their interpretation of the Constitution and other relevant documents. In this case, I have serious disagreements with SCOTUS's interpretation.

[general_re]

Yeah, I doubt that James Dobson will use this decision as an example of judicial activism.

Think so? ;)

[clamper1797]

I hope that the DoJ uses its good judgment in this area.

Hope for a snow blizzard in hades while you're at it. IMO ... the powers that be just want to make as many criminals as possible

[holdonnow]

National Review Online/The Corner

COUNT ME WITH THE LIBERTARIANS ON THIS ONE. [Mark R. Levin]
I don't support the widespread legalization of drugs. However, that's beside the point. Based solely on news accounts, this is, in essence, a continuation of Wickard v. Filburn (which involved homegrown wheat), in which interstate commerce was said by the Court to include commerce wholly within a state -- enabling the federal government to regulate virtually without limit state and private economic activity.
Posted at 11:27 AM

[LAURENTIJ]

I wouldn't use pot even if I had x disease. I refuse to become addicted to it.

There's plenty of good alternate methods available. I'd rather have my 12 guage take away the pain if it got bad enough.

[Doctor Stochastic]

And alleged conservatives will come in and applaud this ruling because they are against pot use. They couldn't care a whit that the ruling is based on one of the most expansionist Supreme Court rulings of all time.

Conservatives have rarely been non-expansionist (maybe Goldwater). They have tried to change the direction of expansion, though.

[Nyboe]

yes because congress had no right to create the law, all powers not explicitly articulated in the constitution are reserved for the states.

im torn on this issue, while I don't like the idea of legal marijuana, I think it is up to the states to decide not the federal government.

I am trying to be consistent on this issue since I also believe that it should be left up to each state to decide if they want to allow abortion.

[soundandvision]

Sorry, forgot to italicize your quote:

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

I said my piece in agreement with Justice Thomas.

[BurbankKarl]

What about the bong loading freepers?

[mondonico]

All the Court said was that Congress has the power to trump state law on this issue, using a Constitutional theory that hatched in the '30s in order to allow the New Deal to pass muster.

[missyme]

You cannot be serious? You know Nothing NADA about Marijuana? Addicted? right...

Here's some more ADDICTIONS:
1. Nicotine
2.Alcohol
3.Benzodiam
4.Oxycotin
5.Sugar
6.SEX

DO you stay away from all these? would you use your 12 guage rather than try any of these???

[SittinYonder]

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

Think of the cost of that!

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Have you ever left your house?

[jayef]

People are dying from use of pharma approved pain relief.

[newgeezer]

I wouldn't use pot even if I had x disease. I refuse to become addicted to it.

Where'd you get the idea that pot is addictive?

[missyme]

HAHA..No Joke..
Bizarre Poster!

[Hank Rearden]

It appears some old fossils in DC are spouting gibberish again - gibberish increasingly ignored by the American people.