Posted on 06/06/2005 7:16:18 AM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs
Per Fox News:
The Supreme Court has ruled Medical Marijuana as illegal.
On a serious note, this can only benefit the Dems.
They + the media will paint this as an issue split cleanly along party lines, since the administration brought this case in the first place.
Can you imagine the outcry if someone DIED of thier disease during or even after their prosecution?
This is a public relations nightmare waiting to happen.
I hope that the DoJ uses its good judgment in this area.
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.
And I am betting that they do not state the article and section of the Constitution that allows the federal government to outlaw drugs.
This is the best decision of the year.
Imagine. Laws made by the legislature.
This is dangerous. Why have election at all?
I think it'll be a while before we see the wacky t'backy in cans.
And andro.
(oops. That's right. They already did that.)
I'll be interested to see whether they do.
If that's how the Feds want to spend their resources, fine. But its still legal at the State level.
Meanwhile, it's A-OK for local and state governments to totally ignore federal law on topics explicitly assigned to the feds in the Constitution... such as illegal immigration.
The world is turned on its head.
Who cares if the authority was usurped from the states by the feds?
I wonder how the justices voted. Who were the 3 dissenters?
Yes, so if I grow pot in my back yard, and smoke it, I am somehow doing something related to interstate commerce.
Men In Black had a statement about how one court case they found against a guy who grew his own wheat to feed his own animals, ruling that if he didn't grow his own he would have to purchase it, so he was "effecting interstate commerce".
But in this case there is no market for marijuana to regulate.
We need to get back our individual state rights. We are too diverse a people to have one set of laws governing all of us. This would be like trying to make all christians worship in the same denomination. Most of our contentious political and social fights happen simply because we can't move to a place where the laws are to our liking.
They are, prohibition, including drug prohibition is a liberal project, not a conservative one.
The idiotic conservatives tend to take up failed liberal policies, if they've been around long enough. Prohibition is one, 'saving' Social Security is another. Let's not forget adding prescription drugs to Medicare, thank you President Bush.
Imagine. Laws made by the legislature that force people to suffer. Nothing new there.
You're going to be flamed. Count on it.
It doesn't say. They relied on a decades old ruling concerning an individual's right to grow wheat for their own consumption...stating that it was regulated under interstate commerce.
I've never subscribed to all of this "medical" marijuana crap. It's just a subterfuge to legalize marijuana in stages. Nobody can tell me that among the jillions of painkillers and herbs out there, nothing can be found as good or better than tripping on pot.
The process of legalizing marijuana has begun in the same way as legalizing euthanasia: first, a few really extreme and sympathetic cases of suffering, and then on to mainstreaming it. Look at Holland, where the old, the sick, and even children whom doctors do not deem worthy of life are now being put to death involuntarily.
I applaud the Supreme Court's decision.
I'll be curious to see what legal issues were at stake with case. I think the FedGov's war on drugs is insanely far-reaching, but it may take an act of Congress to rein it in.
Imagine if laws passed by state legislatures were allowed...say limiting abortion?
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