Unless you live under a stone, you know the Supreme Court heard arguments today on California’s compassionate use marijuana law (which you can read about on Drug War Rant and Volokh and Sollum’s blogs). You may not know that the states of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi filed an amicus brief in support of the potheads, not that they indulge themselves:
The question presented here is not whether vigorous enforcement of the Nation?s drug laws is good criminal policy. It most assuredly is. The question, rather, is whether the Constitution permits the Federal Government, under the guise of regulating interstate commerce, to criminalize the purely local possession of marijuana for personal medicinal use. It does not.
That’s pretty firm, I’d have to say.