[ConservingFreedom]

Do you agree that a Constitutional amendment is required to give the federal government legitimate authority to ban drugs other than alcohol? (My answers are yes and yes.)

No. Drugs are an existential threat to the existence of government and are therefore expressly covered under the defense clause of the US Constitution.

So all government needs to do to ban Z is declare it "an existential threat to the existence of government"? Have you considered what a Democratic/RINO Congress might do with such authority?

[headsonpikes]

“Drugs are an existential threat to the existence of government...”

Sounds like someone got a little freaky after eating shrooms and is now over-compensating to appear normal to The Watchers. ;^)

[DiogenesLamp]

So all government needs to do to ban Z is declare it "an existential threat to the existence of government"?

If "Z" constitutes a substance of sufficient deadliness, (Such as VX Gas, Anthrax, Fissionable material or mind altering drugs) then yes.

Do you think governments should tolerate substances which can end governments and kill millions?