More Raich reactions

A couple of good LTEs on the Raich decision and the war on marijuana consumers in today's Louisville Courier-Journal.

Excellent column in the Boston Globe by Cathy Young who is also a contributing editor at Reason magazine. Here's the money graf.
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This isn't a conservative-versus-liberal, Republican-versus-Democrat issue: Both parties are drug war parties. (It was the Clinton administration in the 1990s that decided to use federal authority to thwart new state laws legalizing medical marijuana: In 1996, Clinton approved a plan to subject doctors who prescribe the drug to federal prosecution.) It's hard to tell which side is more guilty of hypocrisy. What happened to the conservatives' commitment to the principles of states' rights and limited government? What happened to liberals' concern for the rights of defendants and to the right to privacy?

Good questions. It's high time our representatives answered them.