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5:57 PM
by Gerald Klaas
An article in ReasonOnline talks about the recent 9th Circuit ruling that the DEA does not have justification under the "interstate commerce clause" (basis for the Controlled Substances Act) to seize the marijuana plants of Diane Monson, a California resident and medical marijuana patient.
Personally, I'd like to see the Supreme Court throw out the entire Controlled Substances Act. I'm one who fails to see the connection between "interstate commerce" and "Controlled Substances". But as the above article so aptly sums up
When the law is a joke, it's hard to predict which arguments the courts will take seriously.
I'm trying to follow the ideals of Henry David Thoreau, in his essay On Civil Disobedience. Thoreau refused to cooperate with The Machine of oppressive government and encouraged all moral people to do the same. He referred to this "civil disobedience" as creating friction in the machine. Given enough friction for a long enough period of time, the machine will break.
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