Comments on: Medical Marijuana: A Wild Ride on Federal and State Law http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/10/medical-marijuana-a-wild-ride-on-federal-and-state-law.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:44:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Legal Bud Reviews http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/10/medical-marijuana-a-wild-ride-on-federal-and-state-law.html/comment-page-1#comment-66051 Legal Bud Reviews Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:19:05 +0000 http://www.concurringopinions.com/?p=21396#comment-66051 I find the whole issue annoying. Perhaps the gov't is attempting to protect their people, but I find more likely reasons for the prohibition and slow actions for retracting it lay in the corporate landscape. Paper mills, logging, clothing manufacturers and big pharma may have to rethink how business is done if this little plant is legalized (as it should be). I find the whole issue annoying. Perhaps the gov’t is attempting to protect their people, but I find more likely reasons for the prohibition and slow actions for retracting it lay in the corporate landscape. Paper mills, logging, clothing manufacturers and big pharma may have to rethink how business is done if this little plant is legalized (as it should be).

]]> By: ParatrooperJJ http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/10/medical-marijuana-a-wild-ride-on-federal-and-state-law.html/comment-page-1#comment-65987 ParatrooperJJ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:51:33 +0000 http://www.concurringopinions.com/?p=21396#comment-65987 The whole profit thing is easy enough to manage, just take a bigger paycheck. The whole profit thing is easy enough to manage, just take a bigger paycheck.

]]> By: Lori Ringhand http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/10/medical-marijuana-a-wild-ride-on-federal-and-state-law.html/comment-page-1#comment-65956 Lori Ringhand Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:43:13 +0000 http://www.concurringopinions.com/?p=21396#comment-65956 They are managed differently, yes, but only at this moment in time. Civil rights has been an issue of national importance since the founding, but was nonetheless "left to the states" from the end of Reconstruction until the 1950s. The regulation of alcohol has fluctuated between federal and state control for a century. It seems to me that very few issues are categorically either nationalized or not. Rather, nationalization ebbs and flows over time and for variety of reasons - none of which are particularly well grounded in deep theories of what type of issue is better treated at what level. They are managed differently, yes, but only at this moment in time. Civil rights has been an issue of national importance since the founding, but was nonetheless “left to the states” from the end of Reconstruction until the 1950s. The regulation of alcohol has fluctuated between federal and state control for a century.

It seems to me that very few issues are categorically either nationalized or not. Rather, nationalization ebbs and flows over time and for variety of reasons – none of which are particularly well grounded in deep theories of what type of issue is better treated at what level.

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