I REALLY hate it when you link to leftist sites that will not even let you post without closing your account. Are there not any other sources for this information?

The Feds do not want to let go of this because it is a power trip for them.  States' Rights are something for Federal Goon Squads to roll right over.  After all, did we not have a Moron-in-Chief who once, flat out said, that the Constitution and Bill of Rights was just a g-d piece of paper?  Yes we did, sports fans, and I'd be willing to bet this same Moron has not changed his tune!

For those who say the War on Drugs is a failure; au contraire!  It has done just exactly what the federal government wanted it to do.  Criminalize victimless 'crimes', drive up the profit margins on the drug trade, and create a prison class, to be used and exploited as third world type slaves for performing services, undercutting the rest of Americans, not a small number who try, fruitlessly, to find jobs that do not exist.  Some of these have gone into the Prison Industrial Complex, such as CCA, and they do not pay the inmates much, if anything.  And the ones they are keeping in prison are the non-violent ones, who won't cause trouble when mandated to be a slave.  The violent ones are being transferred or just let out, because they will cause a ruckus when told to be a slave.  So, if you were an Exploiter and you had your choice of who to make a slave, well, duh, no contest here.

So, the States will have to fight, tooth and nail, against this federal leviathon, is what this all boils down to.