Blame the Supreme Court for Letting the Feds Target Legal State Pot

[EasyAce]

The awful precedents that helped empower Attorney General Jeff Sessions
By Damon Root
http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/04/blame-scotus-for-allowing-the-feds-to-ta

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reportedly planning to let federal prosecutors aggressively enforce federal anti-marijuana laws in states where pot has been legalized.

What gives the federal government the authority to target legal state pot? The answer is not the Constitution. This federal power grab is the product of two awful Supreme Court precedents . . . Wickard v. Filburn . . . (and) Gonzales v. Raich . . .

. . . If the attorney general follows through on his threats to unleash the federal government against legal state marijuana, make sure you reserve a portion of your outrage for the lousy SCOTUS decisions that empowered the feds in the first place.

[goatprairie]

The awful precedents that helped empower Attorney General Jeff Sessions
By Damon Root
http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/04/blame-scotus-for-allowing-the-feds-to-ta

This will be interesting.  The usual opponents of states rights, liberals, will now be up in arms about the wonders of federalism and the  overstep of the fed. gov.  I might get out the popcorn.