POSC150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Generation Gap, Commerce Clause, Direct Democracy

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POSC150
• Professor: Professor Jones

Document Summary

Federal law: controlled substances act (1970, treats drugs based on a five-schedule system, how do they decide which drug goes into which schedule b. i. Medical value and purpose (or just recreation) b. ii. Potential for abuse if the drug was freely available: schedule 1 drugs are much more restricted than schedule 5 drugs c. i. c. ii. Heroin has no medical value and has a high potential for abuse. Cocaine has some medicinal value for some conditions: federal law says you cannot possess the drug unless you are researching the drug. Supreme court decided that regulation of drugs is squarely within. Congress" commerce power because production of the commodity meant for home consumption has a substantial effect on supply and demand in the national market for that commodity : public support and american democracy, democratic policy-making a. i. Direct democracy (in some states: demographic differences. Millennials are more in favor of marijuana legalization than older folk: bureaucratic rule-making, neutral competence a. i. a. ii.