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.

[AmishDude]

And if the people tomorrow decided to take your home without compensation,

That's explictly prohibited by the Constitution. You'll have to come up with a better example.

[kjam22]

The problem is that 2/3 of congress and 3/4 of the states can take anything they want from you. Can kick out every part of the bill of rights if they want to. I think sometimes we forget that. That individual rights do have a limit, even in our constitution.

[Austin Willard Wright]

And the state legislatures are not the will of the people? Apparently, not in our brave new world of national centralized power in which the interestate commerce clause becomes a blank check.

[Petronski]

The problem with the Medical Marijuana law is that its just too easy for "anybody" who wants to smoke it to find an unethical doctor....pay him cash....and get a prescription for it.

My thoughts precisely.

While my mother lay dying from cancer, when I still didn't know how things would play out, I found myself forming a (criminal) conspiracy to obtain marijuana.

There's more than one reason it never came to that, but if it had, I had no doubt what I would have done.

[AmishDude]

And if the people tomorrow decided to take your home without compensation,

Oh, and the courts can do that much more easily and with much less notice.

[kjam22]

State legislatures are the will of the people. But so is the federal level. Your gripe isn't with the court. Your gripe is with your senator and represenative. Get them to change the law.... don't do like the ACLU and try to get the courts to do it for you.

[Lazamataz]

You never have gotten this right, my friend.

Say, on another topic, how come whenever Barney Frank says "my friend", it always comes out "my fwend"?

[holdonnow]

LOL

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"The will of the People should not be binding, when it is in opposition to individual rights."

I agree with you in general, but I fail to see how voter approved use of marijuana by a citizen violates anyone's individual rights. Does voter approved denial of citizen's benefits to illegals violate any citizen's individual rights?

Some judges think so but judges, like all humans, routinely base their interpretations on their own biases. If the will of the Judiciary is more important than the will of the People we are no longer a free people.

Michael Frazier

[Austin Willard Wright]

Have you read the interstate commerce clause? The plain words explicitly restricts federal power in this case (at least before our supreme court endorsed an evil pro-New New Deal case from the 1940s).

[holdonnow]

Geez ...

[dirtboy]

What Congress does can be undone.

I thought the purpose of the Constitution was to define what Congress can do and not do. You really should And, BTW, Congress isn't "usurping" any power of the federal courts when Congress debates and legislates. The fact that any informed American would think otherwise is an alarming indictment of lack of basic political awareness in out country.

I never said such. I am saying that Congress is usurping the powers of the states and the people as defined by the 10th Amendment. Congress and federal judges apparently have decided to work together to usurp power instead of acting as a check and balance on each other's powers.

The fact that so many so-called conservatives fail to comprehend federalism and applaud a ruling based on the worst of the New Deal SCOTUS decisions means this country is in even deeper doggie doo that I thought.

[YaYa123]

(or maybe you already have)

[Austin Willard Wright]

This has nothing to do "with the will of the people." It has to do with the court's expansive (a la New Deal) interpretation of the Interstate Commerce clause.

[Lazamataz]

Boston accent, I'm thinking. ;^)

[newgeezer]

I have mixed feelings about medical marijuana ... The problem with the Medical Marijuana law is that its just too easy for "anybody" who wants to smoke it to find an unethical doctor....pay him cash....and get a prescription for it.

I don't understand your "mixed feelings." Name any prescription pain killer for which that is not also a "problem."

Just because people use [legal substance] to [illegal act] is no reason to outlaw [legal substance].

[dirtboy]

The problem is that 2/3 of congress and 3/4 of the states can take anything they want from you

But that is a much, much harder thresshold to reach than a majority in Congress and a presidential signature.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

That individual rights do have a limit, even in our constitution.

Individual rights derive from God---they have no limits. How can man limit what God Himself grants every human being?

[missyme]

The problem with the Medical Marijuana law is that its just too easy for "anybody" who wants to smoke it to find an unethical doctor....pay him cash....and get a prescription for it.

That happens with leagal narcotics all the time Elvis Presley had every DR he dealth with give him narcotics..

In the early 80's my friend had her Dr give her Ampethamines street name *BLACK BEAUTYS* to her all the time

]Nothing new here....