Why is passing a marijuana legalization bill democratic, but passing the Clean Air Act is not? I guess I am still not understanding the core of your argument.

Why is passing a marijuana legalization bill democratic, but passing the Clean Air Act is not? I guess I am still not understanding the core of your argument. When your state legalized marijuana, it delegated a ton of decisions to unelected officials - individual business licensing, labeling details, dispensary sanitation standards, valid medical applications, etc. There is probably a whole commission of unelected people who go through a formal rulemaking process which involves collecting feedback from people like you, just like the EPA. It's ok if you don't like this model, but you can't claim it's not what Congress intended and not a normal state of affairs at the moment. It's just how the country works, we don't have Congress vote on every single pollutant, medical device, potential drug, import/export restriction, endangered species, etc.