Morning Marijuana Roundup

Morning Marijuana Roundup

Discussion continues in many quarters on Monday's ruling:

Rekha Basu at the Des Moines Register comes out for medical marijuana in a thoughtful piece. The unspoken subtext, as regular Register readers know, is that her fellow columnist and husband Rob Borsellino was recently diagnosed with ALS.

Caught the Daily Show for the first time in ages last night and got hit with the Cheech and Chong dilemma again: even though Stewart was relatively sympathetic, the stoner jokes and image still crept in. The NORML advocate didn't help himself in the clip, as he was pictured in front of a shelf full of High Times magazines.

Uber-blogger Kos does a far better job than me in getting past the pot and looking at the Court:

The liberal wing of the court stuck with the notion that the feds can trump state laws and regulations on certain matters - a stance that has allowed it to intervene in issues like civil rights, labor rights, and the environment.

But the most interesting part of the decision, by far, is the Scalia vote. He's a partisan hack who lets his personal views on issues cloud his legal reasoning.

Something I myself am guilty of from time to time... but then, I AM a partisan hack and not the the Chief Justice In Waiting. Not that it absolves me from sound legal reasoning... but it certainly is an interesting insight into how a Scalia Court would work.

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