When the drug war started, politicians had a problem: banning someone from ingesting wasn't something the US government had the power to do. We were a free coun

When the drug war started, politicians had a problem: banning someone from ingesting wasn't something the US government had the power to do. We were a free country after all. They had to bend the constitution by implementing a tax rather than a ban, and simply never issued tax stamps. Fast forward 100 years, the federal, state and local governments can ban anything they damn well please with little to no resistance, confiscate our property with no recourse and a myriad of other things we accept as normal. Where would we be if they hadn't circumvented the constitution and just let people use the drugs they wanted? We would probably (maybe) have more drug deaths, but we wouldn't have this 1984 like society. I think I want a do-over.