Reply #7: So far Nevada has protected its states rights to write laws

[Virgil]

I even hate to mention the storm over same sex marriages, because it gets complicated in a hurry when people get married in one state and move to another. The USG uses the commerce clause to give it authority in the area of cannabis prohibition. Because society is so mobile, I think as bad as I hate to say it, the USG can make a case in the area of same sex marriages. It really is too complicated and filled with Christian fundamentalism to get involved with for me.

The easiest comparable issue is the state law concerning doctor assisted suicide when people were at the end of life in Oregon. As soon as they passed it, Ashcroft was all over it in his fundy, Crisco-annointing way. I think the 9th Circuit told him to butt out, which he should have had enough sense to do in the first place.

He is a proclaimed Federalist which advocates the Constitutional limits set on the Federal power. But like many things, we see the misadministration say one thing and do another. Bush also said before the elections that states could do as they wished with medical cannabis. As soon as he took power there was an immediate escalation against patients and the doctors themselves. The DEA collects a fee for giving doctors the right to prescribe medicines. It went up pretty considerably too about a year ago.