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by ctdonath 4254 days ago
"Regulate interstate commerce" was sent to hallucinogenic new levels with the Supreme Court ruling in the Raich case. TL;DR - feds can "regulate" (via SWAT-type police raid) a terminally ill old lady's doctor-prescribed-and-monitored state-legal for-personal-use-only marijuana plants because her doing so decreased demand in an illegal interstate market.