[Question_Assumptions]

A constitutional amendment was required to do this with alcohol, and that amendment has since been repealed. What amendment gives the federal government the power to outlaw any other drug?...answer: There isn't one!

The commerce clause of the Constitution grants congress the authority to regulate the drug trade. All other drug laws belong at the state level. Do you acknowledge that states have the authority to regulate drugs?

[Orangedog]

The commerce clause of the Constitution grants congress the authority to regulate the drug trade. All other drug laws belong at the state level. Do you acknowledge that states have the authority to regulate drugs?

The commerce clause grants congress the power to regulate commerce that crosses from one state to another. Yes, the states do have the right to regulate the drug trade within their respective borders by means of their state constitutions and laws as long as they doesn't run afoul of rights granted to individuals by the US Constitution. The Interstate Commerce Clause has been bastardized over the last century to grow federal power.

[ellery]

As one of our current SCOTUS justices has written, Congress is severely abusing the commerce clause.