Posted on 08/28/2006 7:29:35 AM PDT by tang0r
It turns out that alcohol is legal for the simplest, most nostalgic, and most American reason of all. Despite its risks and harmful side-effects, adults are reserved right to drink because they are independent adults in a free country. For all of the empty rhetoric about economics and black markets, the end of Prohibition was due to a single principle: even if drinking may be bad for society, government has no right to keep the people from doing it. The ability to get drunk is an inalienable right that we have forever confirmed with the 18th Amendment.
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I forget how they phrase it. But that's what it boils down to, yes.
Whe I was an army MP in Texas in the mid 70s, one had to have had alcohol in one's system, and be under the influence to get arrested for DUI.
Ahh. The good ol' days. I miss them dearly.
So Congress (via the FAA) may regulate interstate airline commerce, but may not regulate the private pilot flying into federally controled airspace?
Boy, talk about changing the subject. I shan't play along. Fed. drug laws preventing me from growing dope and selling it in my state are illegal. Fed. drug laws preventing docs. from giving dope to their patients are illegal. Cong. has the authority to regulate interstate commerce. Period. Neither you, nor the Sup. Court. nor congress itself can change those words to read "regulate that which many affect ISC."
No, it's a way of demonstrating how intrastate activity (not necessarily commerce) can substantially affect the interstate commerce that Congress is constitutionally regulating. You're saying the FAA can't regulate that private pilot because he's not flying interstate?
Congress has a finding in the Controlled Substances Act that says that marijuana grown and sold within a state has a substantial effect on their interstate regulatory efforts. Because of that, they are allowed to regulate that in-state activity also -- as they do with the private pilot.
Pualey, Congress has the power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States". It does not have the power to regulate that which may affect commerce. Sorry.
Marijuana does what????
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Impairs for weeks?????????
Here we see a poster who's ignorance is bliss.....but since I've been smoking pot for years on a very occasional basis....I know that this statement is so foolish as to be funny.
And yes I am a republican..;-)
schizophrenia and clinical depression?????
You obviously read that somewhere....but let me tell you....it ain't so.....NO WAY!!!!
Chortling potheads often seem to permanently impaired.
Yes, under the Commerce Clause power.
"It does not have the power to regulate that which may affect commerce."
Not true. Under the Necessary and Proper Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 18) of the U.S. Consttution, Congress has the power "to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers".
Every court that has ever considered the matter says you're blowing smoke.
.......even none imbibers have grammar problems?
"Chortling potheads often seem to permanently impaired."
Seems you left out a "be".....as in "to be or not to...Be".
LOL
None?
Pualey, Congress has the power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States". It does not have the power to regulate that which may affect commerce. Sorry.
Mojave, Congress has the power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States". It does not have the power to regulate that which may affect commerce. Sorry.
No source or authority, naturally.
"The subject to which the power is next applied, is to commerce 'among the several States.' The word 'among' means intermingled with. A thing which is among others, is intermingled with them. Commerce among the States, cannot stop at the external boundary line of each State, but may be introduced into the interior." --Gibbons v. Ogden. 22 US 1 (1824)Dope is fungible and thus may and does pass intermingled from one state to the other.
Mojave, Congress has the power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States". It does not have the power to regulate that which may affect commerce. Sorry.
And you still can't produce a source.
Not if you're a Kennedy.
Mojave, Congress has the power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States". It does not have the power to regulate that which may affect commerce. Sorry.
"The subject to which the power is next applied, is to commerce 'among the several States.' The word 'among' means intermingled with. A thing which is among others, is intermingled with them. Commerce among the States, cannot stop at the external boundary line of each State, but may be introduced into the interior." --Gibbons v. Ogden. 22 US 1 (1824)
Mojave, Congress has the power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States". It does not have the power to regulate that which may affect commerce. Sorry.
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