[DiogenesLamp]

One small issue that seems to be universally ignored is that the federal government has absolutely no constitutional authority to prohibit drugs in the first place.

The constitution imbues the Federal Government with the power to protect the United States from enemies, foreign and domestic. Drugs fall into that category.

[antidisestablishment]

What’s to stop them from declaring you that enemy? Nice conservative answer. Who needs stinking checks and balances? It’s too damned hard to run a police state and try to stay within Constitutional limitations!

[Sopater]

The constitution imbues the Federal Government with the power to protect the United States from enemies, foreign and domestic. Drugs fall into that category.

The hell they do. You could say that about tobacco and anything else, too. It's absurd.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

The constitution imbues the Federal Government with the power to protect the United States from enemies, foreign and domestic. Drugs fall into that category.

That's certainly a broad, Hamiltonian view of the boundaries of the Constitution. Inanimate objects, wholly without life, even, can actually be considered "enemies" of a state?

[gundog]

You just threw a lot of your previous anti-drug arguments in the crapper.