Words don't mean the same thing anymore. This was an epiphany, plain and simple.
Amazingly, there are people living in the U.S. with the belief that the Federal Reserve is our Reserve Bank, located somewhere in the Capitol, and will 'be there' in case of financial emergency. Thus, Federal Reserve.
You know, if our economy gets into too much trouble, we can always count on the Fed.
All my business associates are quite relieved.
In an equally seductive mis-en-scene, here are two more words that means something else now: Supreme Court.
Supreme Court......Supreme....Court.
That would be the final court to arbitrate legal differences, wouldn't it?
That would be the place to go when all other avenues were exhausted, and you still demanded satisfaction.
And you would abide by that decision. After all, it was made by the Supreme Court.
But which Supreme Court? We have state Supreme Courts, and a Federal Supreme Court.
If Oregon passes a law which has been upheld at the state Supreme Court level, does that mean the Federal Supreme Court can, by caprice, rule against it, thus making it null and void?
Do people believe this? Is it true? And if they can, does this mean ANY law is subject to this monarchical treatment?
The Federal Supreme Court recently ruled that the individual states could not legally pass laws favoring a majority of the people who desire medical treatment through the use of Cannabis.
Ten states now have these Medical Marijuana programs. Possibly eleven, with Rhode Island currently in full consideration.
Evidently, some compelling components of the Interstate Commerce laws are being compromised by virtue of medical marijuana patients growing their own medicine.
Here is Judge Scalia's reasoning:
"Where necessary to make a regulation of interstate commerce effective, Congress may regulate even those intrastate activities that do not themselves substantially affect interstate commerce."
Go figure. Garage sales are next.
One would think that Interstate Commerce laws might relate to products deemed legal to trade by State and Federal Governments, and not Cannibis, which by many accounts, remains largely in the state which it was grown.
However, the law is the law, as they say. So, what to do?
By induction, the appropriate legal measure to be taken would be, say, arrest the Governor of Oregon, Mr. Kulongoski.
(Governor Schwartzenegger, too, is eligible for arrest, but that would be downright unpatriotic to handcuff the Terminator)
The charge would be sedition, perhaps, or allowing the passage of laws the Federal Supreme Court eschews. (APLSCE)
Serious charge. The governor could be looking at twenty-to-life.
But how do we know what the Court is against?
Certainly, asking what they stand for would be downright foolhardy.
And we can't ask them how they feel about everything.
Only one thing to do. Turn ourselves in.
Alright, then, the 10,400 patients whose physicians signed the appropriate state form will have to surrender forthwith.
Surrender where?
We're going to Washington to report to the Justice Department. In particular, to Ms. Karen Tandy, who believes that Cannibis causes depression. We have to account for our actions.
And try not to be too depressed about it.
Along with the patients, the 1007 Oregon Md's who signed such illegal documents, please report to the nearest Federal portal when you have cleared your schedules.
Don't worry about the patient caseload, the Fed will take care of them.
The entire State of Oregon Department of Human Services will have to be put 'in suspense' indefinitely, and those state workers involved directly with the program, please report within 24 hours.
That includes you Dr. Higgenbothem.
And you, Dr. Leveque. Although censured by your peers, you still assist at the Cannabis clinic. Get your things together. Besides, you wouldn't want to miss this.
Care providers, pack up.
And, by default, the 80% of you citizens who approve of the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes-----sorry, you've got to go as well.
Come on now, no hand wringing, get along to the portal.
We might as well round everybody up the first time.
As a six year veteran of the program, this author is duty bound to be among the first to report. Tomorrow should suffice.
After all, a reduction in medications, pain mitigation, and an increased ability to work and concentrate have got to be punished.
Along with all those other depressed older folks, who for the first time in their lives are able to obtain some relief from intractable pain.
Because we grow our own medicine, we have violated the Interstate Transport Act. Of course, any Interstate transport of marijuana would be illegal, so if we are not transporting the medicine, in what respect does our inaction promulgate a violation?
Jurisprudence, anyone?
If allowed, look for a press release from some dank hole in Sing Sing.
It won't go easy for us......no Martha Stewart detention center, and probably no more medicine.
After all, no joints in the joint.
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