Voters in Colorado and Washington states passed measures to allow the recreational use of marijuana this Tuesday (Nov. 6, 2012).
Now evidently they expect a fight with the federal government since this would apparently be against federal law. Based on the number of federal employees who make their living dealing with this, I suspect that indeed there will be a fight.
Putting aside the argument about whether marijuana should be legal or not, I do not see how this should be a federal issue.
States should be allowed to have their own policies on issues that are not clearly authorized to be federally controlled.
Possessing marijuana that you grow on your own property should not make it a commerce clause issue. Maybe the federal people will use a different theory to justify their position. Maybe they will rely on the commerce clause. This issue is different from other commerce clause ones and will probably end up before the Supreme Court.
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