Source: Sacramento Bee Copyright: 1999 Sacramento Bee Pubdate: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 Website: http://www.sacbee.com/ Contact: P.O.Box 15779, Sacramento, CA 95852 Webform: http://www.sacbee.com/about_us/sacbeemail.html Note: Our newshawk asks that readers write LTEs to the Bee, as has the largest readership in Placer County, and has only run the negative article referenced below and posted at: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n079.a03.html STATE'S RIGHTS Re "From governor's race to pot case," Jan. 21: The arrest of 1998 gubernatorial candidate Steve Kubby on marijuana charges revives the question of California's right to self-determination as guaranteed by the Ninth and 10th amendments. If Attorney General Bill Lockyer follows his oath of office to enforce the laws of California, then he will recognize that Proposition 215, the medical marijuana initiative, is the law and that Kubby should never have been arrested. The first move should be for Lockyer to counsel the Placer County district attorney on California law. But the bigger question will be if Lockyer does all Americans a favor by taking the federal Drug Enforcement Agency to task for violating the civil rights of a California citizen. The federal government's insistence that federal law supersedes state law, even in areas not specifically granted in the Constitution, deserves to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Gerald Klaas, Carmichael - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake