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Congress passed the CSA in 1970 in order to control and combat the growing illegal drug trade and use within the United States. This act was used to categorize drugs into various schedules to prevent their sale, purchase, and possession (Bostrom, 2005). President Nixon declared a "War on Drugs: in 1971 and called for specific legislation and policy to be developed to combat the growing drug epidemic. As the "War on Drugs" continues to gain steam policies 4 GONZALES V. RAICH were developed that focused on the allocation of federal resources towards the eradication, interdiction, and incarceration of drugs, abusers, and traffickers (Bostrom, 2005). President Ronald Reagan continued to carry this torch and continued to criminalize drugs. This criminalization had an overarching effect across the country as calls to ramp up the criminalization of drugs escalated. At the same time there were significant finding that the use of marijuana could be used for significantly ill patients where no other mode of treatment worked. California, one of the first states to criminalize marijuana in 1913 was also one of the first states to legalize marijuana for medicinal use through proposition 215 in 1996. California passed the Compassionate Use Act in 1996, and on August 15, 2002 county sheriffs and federal agents seized and destroyed all the "controlled substances" under the CSA to prevent them from obtaining, possessing, obtaining, or manufacturing cannabis for personal medical use under Commerce Clause authority. Just as in Wickard v. Filburn (1942) under the Agricultural Adjustment act of 1938 the respondents were growing a product for their private consumption, but the CSA primary purpose is to control the supply and demand of controlled substances in lawful and unlawful markets, and as such is subject to federal authority under the Commerce Clause (Cheeseman, 2019).