Quick Shots: Godspeed to the Troops
An offensive has been launched near the Syrian border. Send your best wishes and prayers the troops’ way, today and everyday…
Add KeithB8 to the list of those who think Scalia got it right (pot as an interstate crop, federal law takes precedence)…
The Instapundit joins in the Kerry-mocking, and points out that Ann Althouse was on the case long ago…
Fargus, I gotta leave that one with the lawyers, for now…I’m hopelessly outclassed by all the blogging professors!…
How is it an interstate crop in the instances where it is grown, used and distributed within one state? Is all marijuana just labeled “interstate” no matter what?
I’m not a law prof (although I have one in the family), but I *am* a pot afficionado, and an opiniated crank with wayy too much time on his hands,
so I’ll take a crack at it. Fargus, the answer to your question is “yes.”
But it’s worse than that – essentially since the New Deal, all agriculture and virtually all products of human labor has been classified/classifiable as “commerce.”
If you grow wheat on your property, bake it into cakes, and eat it with your family – that *may or may not* be okay. The point is, the feds will want a say in it one way or the other.
Fargus, you are a liberal, right? This stuff shouldn’t surprise you, then. The same mentality which leads one to believe that a tax cut is somehow giving something to someone, implies that all transactions are purview and potential property of the state … which leads one to distort/expand clauses of the constitution, or sometimes just make stuff up.
Sure, Republicans sometimes do the same. Liberal Republicans. Everyone since Goldwater has been a sell-out.
- Rudy Can’t Fail
So I’ve recently attracted, through my own flypaper strategy, a bunch of
hateful anti-American, anti- Iraq war lurkers. I just figured out though that they are basically selfish, and don’t want to risk anything for the liberty of others. agree? discuss amongst yourselves, or perhaps take a look over at my place.
jp
http://americansforfreedom.blogspot.com