Law Enforcement Backs Sessions’s Ending of Hands-Off Approach to Marijuana

freebeacon ^ | January 7, 2018 | Charles Fain Lehman

[Svartalfiar]

“The states have the right to legalize marijuana, or whatever else they want.”

Like heroin, LSD, Ecstacy?

Yup. If you read your Constitution, you'll notice that in Article One, Section Ten, it lays out exactly what the states can't do. Powers Prohibited to the States. And funny thing, marijuana, or any drug, isn't mentioned there. Or anywhere else in the Constitution!

No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

[Ken H]

“States rights”

Less feds!