[natedogg]

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It all relates back to interstate commerce in some way. They have stretched that clause so far it is disgusting.

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So how are the feds allowed to go after those medicinal weed growers in California who are only selling to people in California?

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The same way it is if you grow your own cornfeed for your pigs that you sell within your own state. That's interstate commerce don't you know?

Although I'm not a big fan of original intent as a guiding principle to constitional law, it's worth noting that the original intent of the commerce clause was almost certainly to prevent interstate tariffs, NOT to give the federal govt power to regulate every minute aspect of the economy (and justify legislated morality like the drug laws are).

natedogg