Connecticut’s Democratic governor, Dannel P. Malloy, has said he will sign a bill to make Connecticut the 17th medical cannabis state. The bill passed the state senate early Saturday,Reuters reports, after already having passed the House. Under the law, marijuana would be sold in multiple forms at dispensaries, which must have a licensed pharmacist on staff.

What’s interesting to us is the angle the news is taking: referring to all the “problems” and “chaos” that other medical marijuana states have been “plagued” with, and how Connecticut’s “tightly controlled” system would do better.

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” This text is known as the Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, and it is the one most commonly overlooked by our federal government. In regard to one issue in particular, four states in the past few months have taken it upon themselves to formally petition the comical tragedy, which is marijuana prohibition. Specifically, Vermont, Colorado, Rhode Island and Washington have asked the Drug Enforcement Agency to reclassify marijuana into the same category as medically approved drugs such as Morphine and Oxycodone in order to prevent federal interference in medical marijuana treatment.