Mega Group Blog on Gonzales v. Raich
We’re going to try an experiment here. Obviously, there is and will be a great deal of discussion of Raich in the blogosphere. For the sake of reader convenience, and in order to stimulate a wide-ranging discussion, we are going to host here a conversation among several of the principal constitutional law bloggers, along with other academic and practitioners who have been following and writing about Commerce Clause doctrine. Some of the participants may cross-post on their own blogs, which we encourage. We’re hoping that the conversation continues throughout the week, but if turns out to be shorter or longer than that, that’s fine, too.
Our conversants will likely include bloggers Ann Althouse, Jack Balkin, Orin Kerr, Larry Solum, Mark Tushnet and Eugene Volokh, along with possible occasional posts from me and Tom and Prof. David Barron, and a few others from whom we’re still waiting to hear. So far, the participants might skew a bit more to the dissenters’ view; but we’re hoping to achieve more balance before the day is out.
I’ll begin by posting some of the more interesting posts that our participants have thus far posted to their own blogs.
It seems to me that it would be better for all Medical Patients to be able to go to a dispensery to purchas their med’s than to half to keep supporiting the black market. As a medical patient myself, i have to sneek around just to try an get decirnt medical cannabis, and i would rather support a dispencery that creats jobs and gives back to the coumity by paying sales taxes, payroll and makes donations to the local coumity like the police and fire. But no our great goverment has taken away our fredom of choice.
Comment by Steven Smith — June 6, 2005 @ 2:24 pm
DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young stated in his decision for the rescheduling on cannabis that “marijuana “has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States” for spasticity resulting from multiple
sclerosis and other causes. It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious to find otherwise.”
The DEA then took its own law judge to court to continue its “unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious” war on cannabis.
Personally, I believe that this ruling is a good thing for medical marijuana patients. If they are imprisoned, the state will have to pay for their housing and health care. They will also have better access to medical cannabis behind bars then they do on the public black market. The Supreme Court’s decision has ensured that pharmaceutical companies and drug dealers will thrive, and that the Constitution will become nothing more then a quaint historical document hanging in an obscure Washington archive.
Comment by Jeff S. — June 6, 2005 @ 3:08 pm
Congressional Over-Raich
By now, you’ve heard about the Supreme Court’s decision in the medical marijuana case, Gonzales v. Raich (previously Ashcroft v. Raich). They ruled that Congress had the power to ban the use of medical marijuana even in states that had vote…
Comment by fling93 loves fishies — June 18, 2005 @ 11:51 am