[robertpaulsen]

"such rights do not have to be enumerated"

Well then, Mr. non-dense one, why are gun rights enumerated in the second amendment and drug rights are not?

And if you can find such a reason, how can the author possibly compare drug use with that reason? No connection.

[tpaine]

"such rights do not have to be enumerated"

Well then, Mr. non-dense one, why are gun rights enumerated in the second amendment and drug rights are not?

Because the framers had just fought a war against a government that tried to limit arms, not one that prohibited food, drink or drugs.
-- Lordy, if Georgie would have banned booze, the Brits would have joined us!

And if you can find such a reason, how can the author possibly compare drug use with that reason? No connection.

Its apparent that you haven't even attempted to understand the authors comparisons. -- Get real or get lost.

[groanup]

"Well then, Mr. non-dense one, why are gun rights enumerated in the second amendment and drug rights are not?"

Because rights did not have to be enumerated to be recognized. The ten that are in the bill of rights were a ploy to promote ratification.

[dcwusmc]

Is your right to eat beef enumerated in the Bill of Rights? Then whence does it come? Perhaps it is what the founders thought blindingly obvious: If an individual is free to own his (or her) own body, then that person may not be constrained as to what he ingests, be it steak or mj or even an opiate...

Sheesh and I once thought that lead was virtually the densest of matter...

[William Tell]

robertpaulsen said: "Well then, Mr. non-dense one, why are gun rights enumerated in the second amendment and drug rights are not?"

Our Founders supplied us with Amendment IX:"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. "

There's an entire amendment, one tenth of the Bill of Rights, insisting that you do not do what your are doing; that is, claim that there is any significance to the ommission or non-enumeration of a right.

I suggest you refer to Amendment XIX. There you will find pretty convincing evidence that at one time the nation operated under the principle that a substance could not be outlawed by the federal government without a provision of the Constitution permitting it to do so. What changed? It was not the Constitution. It is the people who refuse to use it.