[Schwaeky]

I'm inclined to disagree with the idea of slipping a "medical" excuse for toking, given that I have smoked the bong before when I was younger and in retrospect see absolutely NO redeeming qualities to marijuana. That aside, I'm inclined to agree with you. I'm indignated that the MIB would make such rulings. Any such thing is up to the states and the people, not the courts. The courts have adbicated their judical duties and have become a supreme legislature, with poweres superceeding Congress and without power of presidential veto. What does that make them???? Tyrants. Between overbearing courts and bureacracies at every level of society, we have traded one tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 tyrants a mile away.

[newgeezer]

Glad to see you didn't let your personal opinions overrule a strict interpretation of the Constitution.

Kudos to you.

[curiosity]

Actually, all the court was doing was upholding the federal controlled substances act and ruling that state laws cannot overrride this federal law.

Scalia's concurring opinion used the necessary and proper clause, rather than the interstate commerce clause, to uphold the law. I fully agree with his reasoning.