Obama Blusters, Brewer Begs. When will Someone Grow a Spine?
Isn’t it time that Governors and state Attorneys General stopped wasting our precious time and money playing these silly legal games, grow a spine, and actually fulfill the oath they took to support and defend the Constitution, including the Tenth Amendment?
Feeding Bureaucracies
Government loves having enemies – it allows them to increase their power, size, and control…
Good medicine: the rightful remedy
long before the uproar over Obamacare, states were already exercising their sovereign right and duty to defy unconstitutional federal acts.
California: A Nullifier’s Paradise?
The pundits scream “racism,” the legal experts cite the “supremacy clause,” and the entire country – left to right – just might be missing the point.
A Raging Bull
We are talking about standing firm against unwarranted, unconstitutional and illegal acts.
Prop. 19 Goes up in Smoke
Passage of such a law would open a can of worms for federal authority and bring back the idea of a people’s nullification.
“Unconstitutional Law” is an Oxymoron
The Tenth Amendment prohibits the federal government from interfering with a state’s decision to either allow or prohibit the cultivation, distribution or use of marijuana within its own boundaries (case law involving the Commerce Clause notwithstanding).
Courage, Liberty, Guns and Weed
Question: Do gun rights activists have as much courage as pot smokers?
Having it Both Ways?
Federal Health Insurance Mandates: Why You Can’t Oppose them and Support Federal Marijuana Bans at the Same Time.
Roger Clemens Should Plead the 10th!
Has anyone ever refused to answer a question from a federal inquisitor on Tenth Amendment grounds? I don’t know, but I’d love to hear it from Roger Clemens…
Arizonans Dare To Defy The Feds Again!
Just when you thought Arizona couldn’t get any more provocative, or push any more of the federal government’s buttons, it looks like America’s 48th state may actually become the 15th state to adopt another very controversial law!
Hemp for Victory!
The Founding Fathers saw good promise in hemp and some even farmed it themselves. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington both grew hemp, and Benjamin Franklin owned one of America’s first paper mills that produced durable and long-lasting hemp paper
Freedom in One Word
Now that Heath Care legislation has passed, the obvious question for opponents is this: Now What? My answer is best summed up with just one word
Au Contraire, Mr. Holder!
Eric Holder, along with the rest of the DC establishment, believes that the 10th Amendment and Constitutional limits on federal power are little more than a minor nuisance to their supremacy in all things.
Cannabis, Compassion and the Tenth Amendment
Kansas, New York and other states are looking to the principle of interposition, enshrined in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, and the sovereignty reserved under the 10th Amendment to protect their patients and caregivers from Federal prosecution in their foolhardy “War on Drugs.”
The Drug War vs the Bill of Rights
In America, our liberties our ostensibly protected by the U.S. Constitution and particularly the Bill of Rights. How much has the drug war compromised our Constitutional rights? Let us consider a countdown, starting with the Tenth Amendment and moving to First.
Nullification at Work: Marijuana in CA
From the Tenther Grapevine: “According to our friends at NORML, there are now 13 states who are openly resisting federal laws on medical marijuana. And now my home state of California is on the verge of taking it to the next level – full legalization.”
California Senate to Feds: Back Off!
My home state of California usually interacts with the federal government by genuflecting. But, on a few issues – very few, that is – they’ve got plenty of backbone.
Paul Armentano: The Unconstitutional War on Pot
In this week’s podcast, Paul Armentano, Deputy Director of NORML discusses the unconstitutional nature of the war on marijuana, the history of marijuana prohibition in the U.S., the commerce clause as a federal excuse to regulate and prohibit various activities and more.
Support The Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act
It is time that we allowed our unique federalist system to work the way it was intended. Patients and their state representatives should have the authority to enact laws permitting the medical use of cannabis — free from federal interference.
Moving Towards Tobacco Prohibition
Last week, another bill was passed and signed into law that takes more of our freedoms and violates the Constitution of the United States.
It was, of course, done for the sake of the children, and in the name of the health of the citizenry. It’s always the case that when your liberty is seized, it is seized for your own good. Such is the condescension of Washington.
Is Idaho Ready for Medical Marijuana?
American marijuana prohibition began in 1937. Since its heyday in 1970, the federal government has defined marijuana as having a high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical use in treatment.
State Sovereignty and the War on Drugs
The war on drugs is not about drugs, it is about state sovereignty. Once the federal government gets us to concede the principle that the states cannot be trusted with their own sovereignty– to do what is right –then, on principle, the federal government will gain the ability to legislate other things against our sovereignty as well.
Delaware Senate bill would legalize medical marijuana
Delawareans afflicted with a variety of chronic and painful conditions would be able to legally use medical marijuana to ease their suffering under a bill now under consideration in the Delaware State Senate.
Sen. Margaret Rose Henry (D-Wilmington East), said her bill isn’t an outright decriminalization of marijuana and is aimed at balancing compassion for the sick with maintaining tight controls on access and the amount of marijuana a person can have.
