Good ruling....the US Constitution gives the feds zero jurisdidction in such matters. This is a no-brainer for a conservative justice.
While I agree with you, the source of federal authority for the CSA, the commerce clause, was not really directly at issue in this case. It was assumed to exist.
I haven't read the opinion of the Court or the primary dissent yet, but I did give Thomas' separate dissent a quick read. You can find it
here.
He basically called everyone except Scalia a hypocrite, and claimed the whole issue was decided in
Raich. I agree.
You apparantly didn't read the ruling or much of this discussion. The ruling was that John Ashcroft had no specific authority to pick and chose among the various drugs on the market to decide which of them could be used by "killer docs" in Oregon to kill people.
They said Congress could fix that problem.
This ruling is more about John Ashcroft than about the law or the Constitution. Plus, for 6 of the members, it was a chance to kill more people.