[dirtboy]

Who knew? I though that FDR’s New Deal was responsible for the vast expansion of federal power, but now I am informed that the federal ban on marijuana was at fault.

Nice weaselly sidestep - the point is that your attitude that the fedgov should DO SOMETHING about California medical marijuana, even though there no commerce nor interstate movement involved, is directly akin to the same torturous logic we saw in the New Deal-era Wickard decision - and in the mindset of those who just had the fedgov usurp powers rather than gain them through amending the Constitution.

[tacticalogic]

Stroke of a pen, law of the land. Ain't that cool?

All Congress has to do is "find" a "substantial effect on interstate commerce" and suddenly an Enumerated Power materializes. It's MAGIC!