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To: TimF who wrote (118970)	6/9/2005 8:08:49 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793846

If its grown and used by the same individual there isn't even any "commerce". There IS interstate commerce in marijuana. It may not be legal commerce, but there is commerce. The rationale they use is that all marijuana or wheat is fungible so that, absent the capacity to grow and use small quantities at home, users would purchase them, thus engage in commerce. I suppose, in theory, if everyone grew wheat or marijuana at home, the market would collapse. So I can see the rationale. I just think it's silly to give so much weight to such small quantities that don't really affect anything on any practical level. And then there's the question of whether the collapse of the marijuana market could be considered a bad thing...