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To: Roscoe
I have said in several of my posts that I am not a single-issue voter. I don't especially care which drugs are legal or not, beyond reducing the cost of the criminal justice system and focusing it on violent and habitual criminals. So, from my agenda, it is entirely fair and consistent to stipulate that states would likely continue to make many drugs illegal.

As to your response that interstate traffic in drugs is massive, that is true but it may well be insufficient to support a commerce clause justification of the CSA, since the purpose of the commerce clause is to prevent states from interefering in interstate commerce. And anyway, my question was limited to whether someone growing for their own use could, under any reasonable interpretation, be subject to federal law.

Or to take drugs out of it, and make the crime one that everyone can agree is terrible: Do you think the federal carjacking law is constitutionally kosher?

1,433 posted on 01/02/2002 5:29:51 AM PST by eno_
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To: eno_
As to your response that interstate traffic in drugs is massive, that is true but it may well be insufficient to support a commerce clause justification of the CSA

It has repeatedly proven sufficient.

1,437 posted on 01/02/2002 8:11:16 AM PST by Roscoe
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