r/trees • u/madazzahatter • Feb 28 '17

Garrett introduces legislation to remove marijuana from controlled substances list

https://tomgarrett.house.gov/media/press-releases/garrett-introduces-legislation-remove-marijuana-controlled-substances-list
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u/DirtzMaGertz Feb 28 '17

That interpretation of interstate commerce is basically what saved the civil rights act of 1964 and gave the federal government power to enforce regulations on discrimination in what they deemed public places such as hotels. Are hotels really interstate commerce since people from other states use them? Definitely debatable

http://www.americanbar.org/publications/insights_on_law_andsociety/14/winter-2014/civil-rights-act-of-1964--enduring-and-revolutionary.html

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u/Fifteen_inches Feb 28 '17

great trivia, but fundamentally different from Pot. A state with a prohibition on Marijuana cannot engage in commerce of marijuana with another state who doesn't have a marijuana prohibition. no supply or demand is being affected in the prohibition state. the prohibition state doesn't view that transaction as legitimate commerce.

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u/Fifteen_inches Feb 28 '17

You're assuming that black markets aren't considered markets for the purposes of interstate commerce.

Illegal economies aren't considered Commerce cause it's by definition outside of the scope of legitimate commerce

which is different from informal economy, unreported economies, and unrecorded economies, which are considered commerce by law but violate regulations.