Criminal
Oct. 26, 2010
States Can Set Their Own Drug Policies
Proposition 19 withstands constitutional objections and leads to a more rational drug policy. By Allen Hopper of the ACLU.
On the Wall Street Journal's opinion pages earlier this month and in a letter to Atty. Gen. Eric Holder, nine former Administrators of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) claimed that if enacted, Proposition 19 will be "void" because it will violate the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution and international treaty obligations. The former top drug cops demanded that the Justice Department take a stand against Pr...
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