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.
Nothing short of a revolution (bloodless or otherwise) will bring that about. Sometimes I wonder if, by electing Republicans, we're just prolonging the agony. If the liberals got control of everything, surely the revolution would happen sooner.
Not just any court case. It was Wickard v. Filburn, which the current case used as precedent. FDR's cowed Supreme Court reaches up from the grave and slaps us again.
Well, if you grew your own pot for, say, pain, you really wouldn't have a need for Advil, now would you?
That doesn't affect commerce? You and a million other dopers wouldn't have an effect on commerce?