My question is, what in the Constitution gives the Feds authority to prohibit farming of this crop, provided the state has approved it?
"My question is, what in the Constitution gives the Feds authority to prohibit farming of this crop, provided the state has approved it?"
It's the "whatever congress wants to" clause of the constitution.
If congress wants to do it and they can get enough support for it, they have the legal authority to do anything, or so some would have you believe.
It's funny that a farmer has to jump through all these hoops to grow the same crop Washington and Jefferson grew.
This nation has gone bat-sh&$ insane with laws.
ROTFL. The government can do anything they damn well please. The Constitution is just for looks, until the citizens decide otherwise.
Article VI, Section 2 (Supremacy Clause) which says that federal law trumps state law.
The same clause that gives the Feds authority to prohibit medical marijuana when the state has approved it. Nothing new, ellery.
"My question is, what in the Constitution gives the Feds authority to prohibit farming of this crop, provided the state has approved it?"
Why, the interstate commerce clause, of course!