🚀 go-pugleaf

Seth Fehrs wrote:

>    Unfortunately, they enforce federal drug prohibition even when
>    it doesn't cross state lines.  The SC logic is that growing hemp
>    in NC, even if it never crosses state lines, means that the hemp
>    markets in other states will be affected because someone does not
>    have to import to NC whatever hemp is grown in NC.
> 
>    If they applied this logic consistently, the tenth amendment would
>    be effectively repealed by interpretation.

I thought it had been. I can't remember a case in which the federal courts respected it 
when deciding on an issue of expansion of federal powers.

>    The interstate commerce clause is the basis for much federal

Wasn't its purpose the creation of a free trade zone among the States by the 
forestallment of trade wars and tariff barriers between them? It has been used to excuse 
a great deal more than that.

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