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>Nowhere in the Constitution is there listed a right to use drugs. Even though drugs weren't mentioned, I believe this deserves a rebuttal. The constitution i
by Clubber 9y ago
>Nowhere in the Constitution is there listed a right to use drugs.
Even though drugs weren't mentioned, I believe this deserves a rebuttal.
The constitution isn't a list of right we have. The constitution is a list of powers the federal government has. A more accurate point would be that the government isn't explicitly granted the power to regulate drugs in the constitution (which it is not).
Prohibition required a constitutional amendment (18th) and was repealed with another constitutional amendment (21st).
18th: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...
21st: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_...
This is why the first marijuana prohibition was in essence a tax act, because the federal government has the right to tax. They came up with a scheme to make the possession of marijuana require a tax and they would never issue tax stamps for it, effectively prohibiting it. Power grabbers are sneaky little bastards.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dope/etc/cron.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dope/etc/cron....
Most of the extra-constitutional power the federal government has today was assumed through regulation of inter-state trade (Commerce Clause), which wasn't what it was intended for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause