eight years later...

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"Will conservative justices support federalism even when it means upholding a liberal marijuana-use law that they would probably never otherwise endorse? And will liberal justices support the medical-marijuana provision even when their support of it might advance a view of federalism considered anathema by the court's dissenting liberal wing in earlier cases?"

I voted for that medical marijuana law in 1996, dammit. I was already pretty firm in my self-identification as "not a pot smoker", but the vote was an easy decision for me nonetheless. And I was horrified when the SF medical marijuana center, just blocks from my apartment, was raided.