[ale] Ale Digest, Vol 30, Issue 59

[William Fragakis]

On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 14:16 -0400, SimonTek wrote:
> I came up with a question earlier. It has to do with AZ, maybe you
> guys can answer it. 
> 
> How come California and other states can ignore federal law and sell
> cannabis. Yet AZ makes a 10 page law, and all the states that sell
> cannabis, are boycotting AZ and the feds are sueing. I believe in
> State rights. I believe that each state has the right to make its own
> laws, as it sees fit. Strange thing that people forget, when the US
> signed the declaration of independence, that each state was its own
> country per se, and the US was a precursor to the EU. State has always
> meant country, til the federal gov't rewrote the laws to make state
> work like a providence. 
There was a little thing in the meantime called the Civil War which
redefined states rights vis-a-vis the U.S. government.

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