The Professor
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Just posted this in another thread, but as it applies here as well, I'll repost it for your consideration.
That cannot possibly be true.
At least three states have decriminalized marijuana possession.
As marijuana is absolutely illegal under federal law, that supremacy clause must not apply in the way you believe it does.
If it did, those silly people in California wouldn't have bothered to pass laws that decriminalized and allowed legal sale of a commodity that was "banned" by federal law, right?
Those fine folks in California were not silly. I think they acted properly in decriminalizing pot. They just had no idea that the idiots on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) would give the government the authority to use the Commerce Clause to regulate pot which was grown and consumed locally. I cannot see how California could have foreseen such a foolish decision by the SCOTUS.
Note: see post #38 above for details of the Court's decision.