COURT WAS OUT OF ORDER

The Supreme Court's vote to allow federal law to trump state medical
marijuana laws is in violation of the rights of the members of those
states. The passing of Proposition 215 in 1996 is an example of how the
power to govern still rests in the voices of individuals.

When the highest court in our country effectively ignores the collective
will of the majority of Californians, one must stop and ask: Whose will is
being done if not the will of the people?

The federal judicial branch has no business allowing a federal policing
force to intercede in private affairs. Furthermore, if our elected
representatives are stripped of their state and local power because of a
federal decree, it is not then the collective social majority in agreement
that determines law, but the will of authoritarian sects of ideologues.

MARK O. PETERSON

OWEGO