Those goofy idiots aside, this bthers the HELL out of me.
This is a state’s rights issue. This is where I am extremely concerned (and you should be too) about our SCOTUS. SCOTUS has routinely favored a Fed over State meme. This is why I am convinced we lose on ObamaCare. This is why I am convinced we are going to lose many states rights issues INCLUDING abortion.
I’m with you, and I chuckle at these fools too, but we should be alarmed by this ... VERY alarmed.
Both Silberman and Sutton cited Scalia's opinion in 2005 upholding strict federal regulation of marijuana in the case of Angel Raich, a Californian who used home-grown marijuana to relieve her pain. "If Congress could regulate Angel Raich when she grew marijuana on her property for self-consumption," Sutton wrote, "it is difficult to say Congress may not regulate the 50 million Americans who self-finance their medical care."
http://mobile.latimes.com/p.p?a=rp&m=b&postId=1165037
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Thomas's warning in the Raich case has proven to be very prescient:
Respondents Diane Monson and Angel Raich use marijuana that has never been bought or sold, that has never crossed state lines, and that has had no demonstrable effect on the national market for marijuana. If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything, and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.
J. Thomas, dissenting in Raich