Guns are the second amendment, I forget which amendment is the pot amendment.
Me, too, LOL. I knew you'd come back with that!
Pot isn’t mentioned in the Constitution at all. So, technically, the government has no right to outlaw it. Just the states, under the 10th.
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
In 1916, even though there was a huge temperance movement that wanted alcohol banned, there was a general agreement that the FedGov had not been granted the power in the Constitution to do so; thus arose the Prohibition Constitutional Amendment process.
However, by 1936, while a Constitutional Amendment was being ratified to nullify Prohibition, Congress was passing laws to regulate and prohibit the manufacture and use of drugs without permission from the FDA ... with no outcry that the FedGov was not granted this power in the Constitution.
Twenty years ... one generation ... is all it took to loosen the chains that limited the FedGov power.
I forget which amendment is the pot amendment.
It is called Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. It doesn’t need an amendment