As a libertarian, I think it’s reprehensible that liberals are against medical marijuana, and also reprehensible that they tried to raise the price of wheat at a time when millions of Americans were hungry. I hope Amy Coney Barrett will help overturn these rulings.

By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)

October 27, 2020

In the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case Gonzales v. Raich, the court ruled that a person who grew and smoked their own medical marijuana was engaging in interstate commerce, even thought the marijuana never crossed state lines, and no money changed hands.

Voting for the majority were Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Scalia.

The dissenters were O’Connor, Rehnquist, and Thomas.

As a libertarian, I was very disappointed with this ruling.

I was also dumbfounded at the fact that every single liberal on the court voted against medical marijuana.

The ruling was based on a 1942 precedent Wickard v. Filburn, where the court ruled that a farmer who was growing his own wheat and feeding it to his own livestock was engaging in interstate commerce, even though the wheat never crossed state lines, and no money was exchanged.

The 1942 ruling said that the farmer was in violation of federal limits on how much wheat farmers could grow. These limits had been passed in 1938 as part of the New Deal, in order to raise the price of wheat at a time when millions of Americans were going hungry.

The 2005 ruling was used to justify a federal ban on marijuana.

I think it’s reprehensible that liberals tried to raise the price of wheat when millions of Americans were going hungry.

And I also think it’s reprehensible that liberals are against medical marijuana.

I hope that Amy Coney Barrett will help overturn these rulings.