one thing we should look at is how alcohol prohibition was ended. As many of you know, the State of New York dropped all of their local state laws against alcohol prohibition 13 years before the end of federal prohibition. I wonder how they enacted their laws back then? I wonder if the feds threatened to 'trump' their rights back then?

I don't think so, instead, in contrast, after California and some other states followed suite, the feds dropped their federal alcohol prohibition laws, one would assume, to be more in touch with the reality on the ground. This is the way our federalist system was designed to work. National policy comes from the ground up not from the top of the pyramid down.

The problem now, imo, is the feds are so corrupt that they will do anything possible to protect their black market profits. our federal gov't is nothing more than a mafia :twocents: