At 11:06 AM 11/1/00 -0800, Tim May wrote:
California passed the Medical Marijuana Initiative (more than once, as I recall, as the Fedgov found "technicalities" to strike it down the first time it passed).
Actually, the state legislature passed it, twice, and State Reptile\\\\\\\Governor Pete Wilson vetoed it, twice. So we had to do an initiative, which Wilson politicked against, but it passed, so State Atty. General Dan Lundgen and the Feds tried to gut it. The new Democrat Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer's not helping any.
No "interstate commerce" is involved (*), for most home-grown pot, and yet the Fedgov has asserted the claim that federal dietary laws take precedence over local dietary laws.
If you read the Federal drug laws, they start out by bald-facedly asserting that since it's hard to tell where a particular bunch of drugs comes from, Congress presumes that they may have originated in or be destined for interstate commerce, so they have jurisdiction. (Even if it's a marijuana plant still attached to the ground....) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639