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Christie's Crack Down On States Rights

First off, I apologizes for using the phrase "Christie's Crack" and the visual that might have burned in your brain, but it is the title of the article.

On a recent radio show (not mine) he vowed to use the federal government to “crack down and not permit” states legalizing marijuana. Now no matter what you think about marijuana, the issue isn't pot, its state rights. I don't smoke marijuana and I have no interest in smoking marijuana. But that's not the point. The point is federal versus state power. Conservatives want to limit the size and scope of the federal government by ensuring it only performs the functions outlined in the Constitution. So If a state wants to legalize something that is not prohibited by the United States Constitution (as alcohol once was by the 19th Amendment) where does the federal government get the right to stop them? Whether the issue is education, the environment, marijuana, or the drinking age, etc. the federal government literally tells the states what to do even though the states created the federal government not the other way around.

It seems state's rights was only code for wanting slavery, segregation, and removing environmental protections.

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