Weighing in on today’s oral argument in Raich v. Ashcroft, the editorial page of The New York Times has balanced its contempt for the War on Drugs against its loathing of States’ Rights and reached a middle ground: the Supreme Court should rule that Congress lacks the power to punish medical marijuana in this case, but “on narrow, fact-specific grounds . . . [that do not] diminish the federal government’s ability to protect Americans from unsafe work conditions, pollution, discrimination and other harms.”
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