Pubdate: Wed, 15 Jun 2005
Source: Press & Sun Bulletin (NY)
Copyright: 2005 Press & Sun Bulletin
Contact:  http://www.pressconnects.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/878
Author: Mark O. Peterson
Cited: Gonzales v. Raich ( www.angeljustice.org/ )
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal)

COURT WAS OUT OF ORDER

The Supreme Court's vote to allow federal law to trump state medical 
marijuana laws is in violation of the rights of the members of those 
states. The passing of Proposition 215 in 1996 is an example of how the 
power to govern still rests in the voices of individuals.

When the highest court in our country effectively ignores the collective 
will of the majority of Californians, one must stop and ask: Whose will is 
being done if not the will of the people?

The federal judicial branch has no business allowing a federal policing 
force to intercede in private affairs. Furthermore, if our elected 
representatives are stripped of their state and local power because of a 
federal decree, it is not then the collective social majority in agreement 
that determines law, but the will of authoritarian sects of ideologues.

MARK O. PETERSON

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