In California, Arizona, Washington (and possibly others) the people have voted in democratic elections to allow some of their fellow citizens to use Marijuana in cases where doctors have determined that it helps their medical condition. Yesterday the Supreme Court decided that the people and their doctors don’t know what’s good for them and overruled these laws by using the ever-broadening “Interstate Commerce Clause” as reason to override both the will of the people and the State’s right to determine its own laws, as protected by the 10th amendment.

More detailed explinations can be found here at the Legal Theory Blog