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High Plains Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 01:05 PM
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24. The other side of states' rights...
Consider the issue of medical marijuana. 12 states have voted to legalize it, the federal government refuses to acknowledge that.

Some medical marijuana proponents now make states' rights-style arguments.

Hmmm, I don't know that states' rights is necessarily regressive or reactionary, though it has provided cover for racists and homophobes in the past. If it's the federal government that's being regressive, maybe states' rights provides for a more progressive option that allowed by Washington...
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