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Try explaining that to the literally hundreds of marijuana shops, even in Maryland, and the District of Columbia openly selling..
by Simulacra 3y ago
Try explaining that to the literally hundreds of marijuana shops, even in Maryland, and the District of Columbia openly selling..
- deadfoxygrandpa 3y agotheyre running the risk of getting into serious legal trouble with the feds. which mastercard apparently doesnt want to do
- mikece 3y agoShow me in the Constitution where FedGov has the authority to dictate drug law or policy that doesn’t cross State Lines. (Spoiler: it’s not there.)
- lxgr 3y agoNot a lawyer, but I’d strongly suspect that funds flows crossing state lines and using Federal Reserve wire transfers for settlement would make Fed jurisdiction quite possible.
- mikece 3y agoMight surprise you to learn there is precedent to refute that. Flow of money isn’t material to the law: flow of good and staying within State boundaries is the point.
- semiquaver 3y agoWhat precedent? Wickard v. Filburn (1942) pretty much blew away any limitation on the federal government’s use of the commerce clause. In that case even a farmer’s subsistence crop of wheat for personal use was found to be in violation of a federal wheat quota because such activity in aggregate could hypothetically affect national prices. If that can be regulated as interstate commerce surely all cannabis production and consumption can as well.
- tbyehl 3y agoArticle III.
- mrguyorama 3y agoWhat part of the supremacy clause is unclear?