To: Celtjew Libertarian
The whole point of the Bill of Rights is that there are rights that people have as individuals that trump even what the voters want.And the right to marijuana isn't one of those rights. So says SCOTUS. And a socially liberal SCOTUS at that.
91 posted on
06/06/2005 7:56:07 AM PDT by
JCEccles
To: JCEccles
And the right to marijuana isn't one of those rights. So says SCOTUS. And a socially liberal SCOTUS at that. You'd think that the right to receive medication to alleviate suffering would be.... under the 9th Amendment, if nothing else.
94 posted on
06/06/2005 7:58:41 AM PDT by
Celtjew Libertarian
(Shake Hands with the Serpent: Poetry by Charles Lipsig aka Celtjew http://books.lulu.com/lipsig)
To: JCEccles; Celtjew Libertarian; All
"the right to marijuana isn't one of those rights"
-- The Constitution is built on NEGATIVE rights, not POSITIVE rights. It says what you can't do, not what you CAN do.
I thin kthe reason this case lost is that the Liberals who filed it didn't cite the 9th and 10th amendments, which they despise...
386 posted on
06/06/2005 10:41:44 AM PDT by
Remember_Salamis
(A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!)
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