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Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman
We are a nation of laws...you want to change the law, fine change the law but the law is the law. They should enforce it. Obama took an oath to enforce the law as written not selectively interpret it has he sees fit.
Personally I don't have a problem with legalizing it, if that is what the country wants, but I have a real problem with not enforcing federal law as written. That is what the federal government is suppose to do.
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It may be a matter of protecting turf. The Federal prohibition of marijuana is given legal authority under the overbroad misuse of the Commerce Clause. On the one hand, the current government may wish to let the States decide the issue, which would be constitutionally correct. On the other hand, it may not wish to allow any intrusion on its unconstitutional overuse of the Commerce Clause. It's just too handy an instrument to be used whenever the Federal Government wishes to further intrude in our lives with whatever regulations it wishes to impose. The Court has already decided, incorrectly in my opinion, on the side of the Federal Government's right to prohibit. So a reversal would require more litigation, and any chance to lose their Commerce Clause power in this case could spread into other of the many areas where it regulates under that power.
So, it is better to leave the law stand, but not to enforce it. Win, win.