Let's get back to basics. Ken H, a great Freeper, has pioneered this great little quiz -- but I'll do it for him because he isn't here right now:
Here we go, LearsFool:
The federal government derives its authority to prosecute the federal War on Drugs from the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
Do you think the original Commerce Clause delegates authority to fedgov to impose national marijuana prohibition? If you think that they do, then you are contributing to the same perverted notion of the Commerce Clause that gives us things like ObamaCare. Obama's attorneys are using the Commerce Clause as a basis for forcing Americans to buy health insurance from a private company. What say you?
I wouldn’t even begin to try to defend the drug war or national drug laws based on the Constitution. They’re clearly unconsitional, no ifs, ands, or buts. I’ll cry “uncle” on that one before you lay a finger on me.
This won’t get me much respect Free Republic, but...Drugs and druggies are so harmful to a society, and American society is so far gone, that the Constitution can’t save us.
John Adams said it best: “This Constitution is made for a moral and religious people; it is inadequate for the governing of any other.”
I think the “any other” includes us, don’t you? The fact that many (if not most) people in this country are willing to sacrifice their freedom on this question means they prefer tyrants to druggies. We have manifestly failed to rule ourselves, so we chose to be ruled instead.
Nothing new here. Disappointing, yes. But not new.
Better stock up on ear plugs because the screaming from those who make money from the WOD will be ear-splitting.