Lots to rage about in that medical marijuana case at the Supreme Court. I haven't read the actual decision yet, but here are my preliminary thoughts. Pot was first made illegal for two reasons. One, it was associated with jazz musicians, and they were considered a subversive element. Two, it was hard to tax, so they used the interstate commerce clause to rationalize the Federal government having the authority to regulate it. That's my understanding, anyway. So it doesn't make much sense to me for the Supreme Court to then say that states cannot make their own decisions regarding pot within their own borders, especially for medical use.

Too many people have gotten relief from chronic diseases and chemotherapy, allowing them to spend their last months functional and able to converse witht heir loved ones, to discount the medical uses of marijuana. Too many non-government studies have agreed that it has great medical uses for it to be discounted. Government funded studies have an agenda in this matter and cannot really be trusted, especially as they constantly say the exact opposite of what private studies have concluded. And the government refuses to allow researchers to experiment with decent pot, they are required to us government grown pot from some farm in Louisiana. The very few people legally allowed to smoke government weed, due to their cases having been decided before the war on drugs, have said that pot is absolutely horrible and they wouldn't pay a dime for it. That means it doesn't do much good for research purposes. All of this and more should make you very suspicious of the government's agenda in this arena. Do they actually think marijuana is so bad that even chronically ill patients shouldn't use it, or is it just that they don't want to admit they were wrong, after spending billions to enforce the illegality of pot? Polls have shown that the country is split on whether pot should be legal or not, but polls also show a good majority in favor of pot for legitimate medical uses. As long as the government keeps it as a schedule A drug, on par with heroin, then by definition it has no legitimate medical use. Thing is, anyone who equate pot with heroin, cocaine, crystal meth, and other schedule A drugs is ignoring reality in favor of a fantasyworld as out of touch as a dude running through the streets high on PCP.