Scalia: "Let's ask the 3,500,000 hippies, dope dealers, and Berkeley-educated physicians camped out in the backyard who are anxiously waiting for a go-ahead so they can shove 1,000,000 tons of legal marijuana through that loophole."
O'Connor/Thomas: "Aw, we're sure nothing like that will ever happen. See? The California Assembly promises us it won't. It'll only be used for serious illnesses like backaches. Not even a leaf or single seed of it will leave California and enter the surrounding states, and citizens of surrounding states will not come to California to be prescribed bales of marijuana they can take home in their car trunks. They know they would be in BIG TROUBLE if they did, so we're sure they won't do that."
Scalia: "You probably believe there will be no money changing hands either, no graymarket let alone a blackmarket for the stuff."
O'Connor/Thomas: "Our faith in tormented, suffering, pot-smoking mankind and in the good intentions of the California Assembly is unbounded."
Scalia: "The elected representatives of all the people, including the people who live in states surrounding California, had a different opinion about that when they passed a law to keep that loophole closed, and I cannot conclude theirs was an irrational or unreasonable opinion."
O'Connor/Thomas: "Aw, lighten up Tony, it's just two middle-aged ladies growing a little pot in a windowsill box. What harm can it cause? We're going to judicially legislate an exception just for them. It's the compassionate thing to do."
(If in the exercise of its "state's rights" California enacts legislation which has the practical effect of destroying MY state's rights, you can better believe it is a federal issue)
How does it destroy your state's rights? They can possess it in California. If they bring it to your state, then they can be prosecuted for it. There are plenty of examples of something allowed in one jurisdiction and prohibited in another. Nobody has made your innovative argument before.
I really don't know how this could possibly destroy your state's rights. In what way?
Gun grabbers use the EXACT same logic in pushing federal bans on firearms. Then again, most of the drug warriors on FR throughout the years have not been very friendly towards the 2nd Amendment.