States pull plug on Big Brother oversight

Hemp is used around the world for ropes and cords, clothing, paints, cooking and plastics.

 

But the federal government says it cannot legally be produced in the United States.

 

So what are states doing?

 

Simply adopting laws, like North Dakota’s, that not only legalize the farm practice but “expressly rejects any need for federal approval before growing hemp in the state.”

 

It’s part of the growing movement to nullify the federal government’s demands regarding everything from surveillance and drones to marijuana.

 

A new report from the Tenth Amendment Center, which focuses on state-federal issues, explains that more and more, states are resisting federal demands and requirements.

 

The issues recently have included the right to try experimental drugs or treatments, surveillance, hemp, the Second Amendment, the federal militarization of police, marijuana, money, Obamacare, asset forfeiture and Common Core.

 

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“Today’s nullification movement is revolutionary because it offers the hope of smashing the established political order; an alternative to ‘voting the bums out’ – a way to support the Constitution and liberty whether the federal government wants us to or not,” said Tenth Amendment Center Executive Director Michael Boldin.

 

There’s a legal meaning to nullification, he said – to overturn the law. Another definition is simply to make the targeted law “of no value or consequence.”

 

“One might be tempted to think that there is no way to nullify without ending the force of something in law,” he wrote. “In other words, without a legislative body repealing the law, or a judge striking it down, it will still remain in full effect. But this certainly isn’t always the case.”

 

After all, alcohol prohibition was repealed by lawmakers to end America’s failed attempt at being a dry nation.

 

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