Reuters: US high court says no medical marijuana exception. “It is clear from the text of the act that Congress has made a determination that marijuana has no medical benefits worthy of an exception,” he wrote in the 15-page ruling.
They got that right, but not much else.
This court, which holds states’ rights so dear except when police power is concerned, is perpetuating a crime here — but the justices really had no choice. The War on Some Drugs, as the campaign against illegal drugs is more accurately called, is doing more to harm the U.S. than most people could possibly imagine. Hundreds of thousands of people in jail; a corrupt law-enforcement system; a proxy war in Latin America — we should be ashamed as a society of what we’re doing.
We’re not. We lack that capacity these days.