Pubdate: Fri, 02 Jan 2015
Source: Wall Street Journal (US)
Copyright: 2015 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/487
Author: Chris Taylor

BACKYARD WEED IS NONE OF THE GOVERNMENT'S BUSINESS

In response to David Rivkin Jr. and Elizabeth Price Foley's Dec. 29 
op-ed "Federal Antidrug Law Goes Up in Smoke" : The authors assert 
that Colorado's marijuana law is "a full-scale defiance of the CSA 
(Controlled Substance Act). When federal power has been legitimately 
invoked, states may not go rogue."

How is this any different than the subject of abortion? Roe v. Wade 
legalized abortion (until viability) in 1973 but states have been 
going "rogue"  ever since. Some states now require women to watch an 
ultrasound of the fetus or limit abortions to those under six weeks. 
Really? One barely knows about the pregnancy by then.

States are self-regulating marijuana like abortion. But no one is 
mounting a campaign to support women in their decision to have an 
abortion until viability. No one cares if she has to travel hundreds 
of miles to another state to get it or resorts to an unsafe abortion.

So states do go "rogue."  Why is it any different with marijuana?

Chris Taylor

West Deptford, N.J.
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