Students Name Professor`s Name Course Number Date of Submission Fear and Loathing Abstract Fear and Loathing is a book that focuses on discrimination and drug abuse that was carried out in Colorado. Louis Brandeis observed that a single state was courageous in a way such that its citizens opted to serve as laboratories in order to try economic and social experiments of marijuana. This is great sacrifice since the state was doing it on behalf of other states in the country. However, it is clear that a state can invoke the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in order to challenge marijuana legalization. This is what happened; it is clear that marijuana legalization was challenged by the Supreme Court both in Colorado and in other states. The approach was in contrary to the provisions of the constitution as quoted in the novel “the Constitution permits states to try novel social-economic experiments” (Thompson 3). However, this has been restricted if it goes beyond certain standards. The novel also points that “such measures are allowed only when they are without risk to rest of the country” (Thompson 4). Therefore, it is clear that a state can pu
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