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?
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.
“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.
With or Without Federal “Permissionâ€
we don’t need approval from the federal government to stand up for our rights. We need to stand up for them whether they want us to or not!
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!
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.
The Courts and the Commerce Clause: Obliterating Original Intent
Every piece of federal economic regulation from the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) to all of the 1930s New Deal securities and banking law has been rationalized (made “constitutional”) by reference to the commerce clause.
Obama’s Fake Federalism
Friends of federalism cheered last month when the Obama administration reversed the Bush policy of prosecuting medical marijuana cases in states that have legalized the practice. Welcome though that change was, let’s hold the applause.
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.
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.
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.
RI House Passes Marijuana Dispensary Plan
The House today voted 63 to 5 to approve legislation to allow the creation of compassion centers to dispense marijuana to patients in the state’s medical marijuana program.
If the legislation (2009-H 5359A), which is sponsored by Rep. Thomas C. Slater (D-Dist. 10, Providence), is enacted, Rhode Island would join California and New Mexico as the only states that allow medical marijuana dispensaries.
Georgia Group Pushes New Marijuana Laws
Rick Malone, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia, said few prosecutors would oppose decriminalization but suspected few legislators would want to take on the issue.
You’re not going to get anyone to repeal the marijuana laws because they don’t want the political heat but if you got them in a back room and asked about their use in their youth, you might be surprised at the result,” Malone said.
A Tenth Amendment victory?
by Jason Pye, The Liberty Papers This may be the only time that President Obama doesn’t try to undermine the sovereignty of individual states granted by the Tenth Amendment, but I’ll take it:
Will Obama Stop the Medical Marijuana Raids?
by Anthony Gregory, CampaignforLiberty In 1996, California passed proposition 215, allowing for medical marijuana. We have seen similar decriminalization measures in Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Vermont. President Bill Clinton responded to such liberalizing laws with a series of federal raids on marijuana dispensaries, arresting [...]
Let states decide on medical marijuana
Robert Sharpe, Policy Analyst for Common Sense for Drug Policy, makes the point pretty clear in this letter to the Sheboygan Press: While there have been studies showing that marijuana can shrink cancerous tumors, medical marijuana is essentially a palliative drug. If a doctor recommends marijuana to a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy and it helps [...]
Feds violated 10th Amendment. Again.
As It Stands by Dave Stancliff/For the Eureka Times-Standard A landmark decision for all Californian’s quietly made history on August 20th in a Santa Cruz courtroom. For the first time since 1996, when the Compassionate Use Act was passed, the federal authorities have been charged with violating the 10th Amendment for harassing medical marijuana patients [...]
Power Always Corrupts
Back in ’99, even George Bush himself was calling for an end to the war on medical marijuana users. It’s not something that’s pointed out too often these days, and thanks to Anthony Gregory at LewRockwell.com, we can all read these statements from Bush himself.
Politicizing Pain: The War on Marijuana
by Rep Ron Paul K.K. Forss does not claim medical marijuana solves all his problems. His pain from a ruptured disc in his neck is debilitating. He is unable to go to work or to the First Baptist Church he used to attend because of the pain and muscle spasms. Taxpayers through Medicare spend over [...]
Apr 28, 2008 | Categories:Drug War | Tags: 10th Amendment, Drug War, freedom, Guest Commentary, marijuana, medical-marijuana, medication, pot, Ron Paul, State Sovereignty, war-on-drugs | 27 Comments »