Jesse Choper Clarifies Legal Impact of Prop. 19

The Christian Science Monitor, October 15, 2010 by Daniel B. Wood
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“There is no question … that California can pass a law saying it’s no longer illegal to have, grow, or smoke marijuana,” says Jesse Choper, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s Boalt School of Law. “But that has absolutely nothing to do with the continued existence of validity in enforcement of the federal statutes.”