Setting aside (for the moment) the legal issues in the Oregon doctor-assisted suicide case, I find it hard to take seriously Wesley Smith’s argument that allowing states to set their own policies on doctor-assisted suicide could produce “chaos.” There are lots of areas in which individuals or companies operate in multiple states with conflicting policies — from real estate and taxes to gambling and alcohol — and this hardly creates a problem. Different states have different rules regarding alcohol importation and sale. We may not like the policies adopted in some states, but the lack of a “national alcohol policy” hardly creates a crisis.