Nullification

If the centralizers, conservative and libertarian, will forgive me, I’ll mention the Jeffersonian remedy for the Supremes’ medical marijuana outrage. States should simply announce that the decision is invalid in their jurisdiction, and sick people may continue to be treated. The extra radical step would add interposition to nullification: the state prevents invading federal prohibitionists from arresting any sick people or those who supply them. See, for example, South Carolina’s opposition to the Tariff of Abominations, which drove the ethnic cleanser Andrew Jackson crazier. Bill Watkins’s Reclaiming the American Revolution is our guide. Here is Tom Woods on this important and relevant work.

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