[muawiyah]

Ah, yes, the medical marijuana ruling ~ guess that marks the end of medical marijuana.

Fads do come and go don't they.

What I'd like to know is just exactly how it is that an internationally traded product could ever be believed to be a strictly local thing?

Betcha' the druggies'd really like it if a vote were taken among all the producers and a marketing board set up.

Then they'd be in the same pickle as the orange growers.

[television is just wrong]

They cannot control illegal use, nor can their control medicinal use. I read an article 3 years ago about the growing of Marijuana in our National Parks. If you stumble upon it you will simply not survive. They are grown in parts rarely traveled.

Our government cannot control that, they cannot control illegal immigration, and they cannot control importation of illicit substances.

They have our borders wide open, and have very small say so over what is going back and forth.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Medical Marijuana and the End of Federalism by Yakov Bok

Yakov Bok's definition of Federalism was dead before he was even born, unless he's older then 63.

Maybe his next article will be about the potential to split the atom to create a superweapon.

[Vaquero]

Dude.....Dave's not here.

[An American In Dairyland]

I'm just enjoying the fact that the liberal's beloved Supreme Court once again ruled against one of their pet projects. Here's hoping it happens again and soon.

[Noachian]

What about vegetables?

If I grow corn in my backyard, for my own consumption, am I adversely affecting the corn market because I didn't buy it?

Does that mean growing your own corn is now illegal?

[edeal]

So, can I now use this ruling as an excuse for not doing housework or mowing the lawn.

Cleaning the house myself alters demand on cleaning services which effects price. So doing the dishes are now illegal.

You know, doesn't NOT doing something effect interstate commerce as well? By the courts logic, congress should be able to force us to max our credit cards since not doing so has an effect on interstate commerce.

Where does it end?

[patriot_wes]

The bottom line is this - the prices if allowed to set by the free market and not by condition of the illicit activity of smuggling, hiding, confiscation, incarcaration etc would drop to penny cheap for this stupid weed. Through our "drug program" we prop up V. Fox and the entire Mexican government and proxies in this country who are also enriched by the whole fiasco.

As far as the overall judicial / versus "We The People" issue it's simple history repeating itself as it always does.. A republic (if you can't or won't keep it) becomes a democracy and regresses to anarchy.

[hosepipe]

Home grown for personal use "grass" would dry up much of the marijana market.. Can't have THAT... or home grown tobacco either.. When the drug dealers have clout in congress what would be the normal expectations on those kinds of laws.?.

The odds of marijana being taken off the streets is as bout as doable as hate laws removing "hate".. or Gay marriage producing "morality"..

To many laws, produce less justice- Cicero..

[RockyMtnMan]

I must have missed the part where they explained that the illicit drug market is in fact a legitimate market. How can the government regulate a market that officially should not exist? They can arbitrarily decide what constitutes a legitimate course of business based on their idea of what a "market" is?

It shouldn't exist but does so we'll apply the law for a legitimate market to the illegitimate one. What a pant load of misinterpretation.