[ale] Ale Digest, Vol 30, Issue 59

[Robert Reese]

Hello SimonTek,

Monday, July 12, 2010, 2:16:44 PM, you 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.


You can thank the arguably worst, or second worst, president in history: Abraham Lincoln.

R~