Yes, states' rights is an important issue to this day. You can see the tension between the federal government and state governments with the move to legalize marijuana at the state level.
The first state in the Union was Delaware.
Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution and become a state.
John Craven was the very first Secretary of State
Thomas Jefferson from Virginia served as the first Secretary of State.
Washington state will vote for Initiative 502 in the November 2012 election and if it passes it will become the first state to legalize marijuana.
The government decided to legalize the use of recreational marijuana in the state.
California was the state that used marijuana for medical use first.
When the state decides to remove the Marijuana-related criminal charges from the statutes.
One of the states is California.
yes they could. very legal.
Yes, Indian reservations have more power than states, but less power than the Federal government. That's the reason why California and other states were able to legalize marijuana because the ban of marijuana is a state law. States have the power to override current state laws, and indian reservations are able to override state laws. If the ban of marijuana was a Federal law then neither Indian reservations nor States would be able to legalize it.
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The definition of the word legalize is to make something lawful. That is, to give legal validity to something. For example, the State of Washington recently legalized marijuana.
massachusetts
Never, because we are a mainly conservative state that won't budge, consider moving to Colorado
Many people are still petitioning to legalize marijuana.