<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="2">On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:49 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-3931633576274431692WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"calibri",sans-serif"> </span></font></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"calibri",sans-serif">With the current wackiness at the Federal level, one would think you would have become a big fan of states’ rights (as opposed to Federal.)  I have.  Well, OK I always was.  Note that the nomination makes decisions at the Federal level, based on the US constitution, which doesn’t say anything about euthanasia or cryonics.  If states’ rights prevail, some of the 50 states will allow euthanasia for cryonics patients.  In that sense this nominee is exactly who we want, ja?</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That would be awesome, but, with the rampant abuse of the Commerce Clause, there's basically nothing that's off limits to Federal regulation. Case in point: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich</a>, "a decision by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" class="gmail-mw-redirect" title="United States Supreme Court">United States Supreme Court</a> ruling that under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause" title="Commerce Clause">Commerce Clause</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Constitution" class="gmail-mw-redirect" title="US Constitution">US Constitution</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Congress" class="gmail-mw-redirect" title="US Congress">Congress</a> may criminalize the production and use of homegrown <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_%28drug%29" title="Cannabis (drug)">cannabis</a> even if states approve its use for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_cannabis" title="Medical cannabis">medicinal purposes</a>".<br><br></div><div>-Dave<br></div></div></div></div>