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Pubdate: Fri, 30 Mar 2012
Source: Daily Camera (Boulder, CO)
Copyright: 2012 Dave Lane.
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Website: http://www.dailycamera.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/103
Author: Dave Lane
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n197/a07.html
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOESN'T HAVE AUTHORITY OVER MEDICAL MARIJUANA
Gary Hittelman has wrong when he says a city in the United States is
bound by federal law ( Camera, Open Forum, March 27 ).
Regulation of drugs was not one of the powers granted to the federal
government and is therefore left to states to regulate. This is why
the first anti-cannabis Federal law was a tax and not a prohibition.
It took amendments to the constitution to make alcohol illegal and
another to make it legal again ( amendments 18 and 21 ).
The Feds have grown bolder over the years, but they are technically
overstepping the authority and I fully expect some day the U.S.
Supreme Court will put them back in their place, if we are to survive
as a free country.
DAVE LANE
Santa Cruz, Calif.
MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom
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