That’s George Leef’s assessment of the impact of the upcoming Supreme Court ruling in Ashcroft v. Raich, a case about medical marijuana. Writing in Freedom Daily from The Future of Freedom Foundation, Leef explained that what’s at stake is whether the federal government can enact any law it wants, or rather, be limited to the powers enumerated in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. “This case shows how badly the U.S. governmental system is working,” Leef wrote. “State voters should not have to pass referenda that imperfectly restore a tiny sliver of the freedom that has wrongfully been taken from them by statutes such as the Controlled Substances Act. In a truly free nation, government would no more restrict the substances one may ingest than it would restrict the books one may read, the music one may listen to, or the clothes one may wear.”