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On yet another hand, as someone who doesn't smoke marijuana but thinks it should be legal, I'm more interested and clarifying the precedent so there's a better, more concrete understanding of how our state democracies relate to the federal democracy.

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> clarifying the precedent so there's a better, more concrete understanding of how our state democracies relate to the federal democracy

I think that's been a somewhat fuzzy, ongoing debate all the way back to the beginning, so I'm not really holding out too much hope on it being clearer any time soon.

the feds only have power from the states, so that's pretty clear. What isn't clear is what the states will do about the federal government over-reaching like with obamacare.

The Feds can pull their "commerce clause" card and do whatever they want.

That's a domain I'd really rather not travel lightly, as in recent years the government (courts, Justice department) have decided that Some Things are just fine which I felt were not so cool. I'd really rather not get them to decide on a states-rights issue, if we can instead find a way to make it legal federally, as the penalty (to states) of losing sounds high.

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