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Unfortunately there's Supreme Court precedent that growing wheat in your own backyard for your own use is "interstate commerce". Why? Because by growing your
by jpatokal 13y ago
Unfortunately there's Supreme Court precedent that growing wheat in your own backyard for your own use is "interstate commerce". Why? Because by growing your own wheat, you're not buying somebody else's wheat, and that affects interstate commerce. boggle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
- thaumasiotes 13y agoIt seems difficult to apply that precedent to marijuana, as commerce in marijuana is banned (so the "you'd be buying it from someone else" step never kicks in).
- ceejayoz 13y agoI think it was more of an example of the absurd legal gymnastics they're able to do to justify the desired conclusion of a case.
- Daniel_Newby 13y ago"Indolence from marijuana use increases the unpurchased goods overhanging the interstate market."
- Daniel_Newby 13y agoActually if you read the case, they say that growing the wheat was OK. Harvesting it was OK. Using it as fodder would have been OK. The unlawful act was threshing the wheat. Ambrose Bierce was a sunny optimist.