States

Over the week­end, there was quite a ruckus over whether folks should sup­port legal­iza­tion or med­ical use of mar­i­jua­na, as if there was some prob­lem with folks sup­port­ing one or the oth­er, or both.  You can fol­low the dis­cus­sion at CelebStoner.com and TokeOfTheTown.com if you’d like to fol­low along.  I’m post­ing my com­ments here to … Con­tro­ver­sy over med­ical mar­i­jua­na? Or, just an excuse to talk?

I attend­ed my precinct cau­cus last night.  We had ten peo­ple.  There was only one plat­form res­o­lu­tion, mine.  I explained that since the last cau­cus I had picked up sup­port from the Des Moines Reg­is­ter (opin­ion poll on Feb­ru­ary 16, 2010, find­ing 64% of Iowans in favor of med­ical mar­i­jua­na), the Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy … Begin­ning of the leg­isla­tive process

It’s that time again! Time for the Iowa Cau­cus. Please down­load a copy of our 2012 cau­cus res­o­lu­tion and take it with you to the Iowa Cau­cus on Tues­day night, Jan­u­ary 3, 2012. I’m a Demo­c­rat, so if you’re a Repub­li­can, you’ll have to take out a scis­sors and trim off the top part. I … 2012 Iowa Cau­cus Res­o­lu­tion

Here’s the open­ing para­graph from Unit­ed States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549, 551 (1995): In the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, Con­gress made it a fed­er­al offense “for any indi­vid­ual know­ing­ly to pos­sess a firearm at a place that the indi­vid­ual knows, or has rea­son­able cause to believe, is a school zone.” 18 U.S.C. … Read­ing the case law — U.S. v. Lopez (1995)

After read­ing the request from Mari­co­pa Coun­ty for leave to file a late oppo­si­tion to the motion to dis­miss Arizona’s case, it strikes me that the coun­ty should be suing the state, not the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment.  If the coun­ty thinks state law is going to force state employ­ees to vio­late fed­er­al law, then that is … Arizona’s ridicu­lous case against the Unit­ed States

States have failed to demand that the DEA acknowl­edge states’ rights to accept the med­ical use of mar­i­jua­na.