Rhode Island snubs Raich!

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Al Norris

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11th State Legalizes Medical Marijuana.

Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and now Rhode Island allow marijuana to be grown and used for medicinal purposes.

There appears to be growing implications that the U.S. Congress may have to take the issue away from the D.O.J. in order to save their own "Commerce Power," as more States pass medicinal marijuana laws.

In this case, it appears that RI is indeed snubbing the Supreme Court and its ruling on Raich.
 
"There's this notion from the '60s or the '70s that marijuana is a harmless drug," Riley said. "It's not."
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:rolleyes: Says a man who probably enjoys a fine burboun or scotch on the weekends along with a fine cigar.


It's so nice to politicians preventing these loser with brain cancer, AIDS, and multiple sclerosis from ruining their lives with such a nasty horrible drug. If they want to feel better they should just pray and work harder and spend more money on pharmaceuticals, not pollute their minds and bodies with some disgusting plant that's been in use for thousands of years and has never caused a death. Ever.


There appears to be growing implications that the U.S. Congress may have to take the issue away from the D.O.J. in order to save their own "Commerce Power," as more States pass medicinal marijuana laws.

In this case, it appears that RI is indeed snubbing the Supreme Court and its ruling on Raich.
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Good. Just because it's the "Supreme law of the land" doesn't mean that what they decide is actually good for the country. From the article linked in your article:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/06/scotus.medical.marijuana/index.html said:
But lawyers for the U.S. Justice Department argued to the Supreme Court that homegrown marijuana represented interstate commerce, because the garden patch weed would affect "overall production" of the weed, much of it imported across American borders by well-financed, often violent drug gangs.
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That was actually considered a viable argument? Are these Justices as ignorant about the realities of drugs as the DEA and the ONDCP want everyone else to be?
 
Unfortunately even though a state may decide it wants to legalize medicinal marijuana, the JBTs have shown that they are willing to arrest sick people and send them to federal prison to keep their hands on the Controlled Substances Act powers.
 
How are they snubbing Raich?

Raich said the Federal government had the power to enforce drug laws without regard of state laws.

HOWEVER, there's nothing there about STATE government enforcing drug laws or even having them. In theory, Delaware can stop all state drug laws and have the federales do their own dirty work.
 
They're snubbing Raich because they're snubbing this, MicroBalrog:

Article VI:
This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Beautiful. "The judges in each state are bound hereby". So, if I understand correctly, if the cops arrest someone for breaking a Federal statute,, the court must try him.

But you can't really MAKE cops arrest people, can you?
 
Alaska went further in a State Court of Appeals decision and allows individuals to possess up to four ounces in their home for personal use.:D
 
True, but the Raich ruling didn't compell Alaska to change the way it does business. However the legislature just started its session yesterday so as the founding father once said "No man's property or liberty is secure when the Legislature is in session".... things could change.
I'm not sure what the do-gooders have on their agendas yet.
 
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