[Editor's note: This might qualify as a rant, but I'm more confused than angry...I have more questions than bile. This is an open call to law geeks; law is not my forte. If I am making erroneous assumptions, poor leaps of logic, false statements, whatever, please call me on it.]
Well, apropos to recent discussions on this here blog, a blow was dealt recently to the antiprohibitionist movement in the U.S. (such as it is). As many, if not all, of you are probably aware by now, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling that the federal government does, indeed, have the right to prosecute drug offenders as it sees fit, regardless of a given state's laws. (San Jose Mercury News
article;
lots of others.) Specifically, medical marijuana laws (like those in California, etc.) will
not shield users of medical marijuana from the federal criminal prohibition thereof. More specifically, the Court has said that Congress has the right to enforce the laws it has laid down, regardless of the law governing a specific state.
Now...you might imagine that I was initially fairly outraged/disappointed by this. Not, like, on the scale of the last Presidential election, but still...what a drag. Then I hit the brakes, and I started thinking about it. Did the Supreme Court just...do what it's supposed to do?
( A lot of stuff I don't understand )And just to everyone who's been telling me that there are things that can be done, that reform can come, that we can all work together and make things happen...well, I'm just a little bit doubtful of that today. Look at the immense power that's just been wielded by a
very small group of people, who, really, I had sort have expected to know better. At what point can we realistically take a look at the legal situation and this nation and say, "Well...there's no way we can change this." In short...where is there to turn after the Supreme Court?
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