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Federal law does not always win over state law.
Federal law has to meet a set of guidelines before it can be enacted over all the states.
The feds would have a hard time arguing that they have the right to control a substance that is only sold in California, it doesn't meet the qualifications of interstate commerce.
The state of California would have a hard time convincing a judge that their legalization of the substance isn't affecting other states from people coming in to buy and then crossing back into Oregon, Arizona, Nevada, etc.