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While I may not like the cost, the federal government does have the constitutional authority to wage a "war on drugs" if it crosses state or international borders. Where Congress' authority ceases is with any product that is wholly grown, processed, sold, and used within a given state. In such cases, it is entirely up to the state to decide how to deal with the situation, the feds have no say.
Under what part of the constitution do you give the feds this authority (war on drugs)?
Where do they get the authority to tell us what we can eat, drink or smoke?
Then there is no dispute, Congress has the constitutional authority to wage a "war on drugs", at least in regards to international and interstate commerce.
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No, not true at all. Regulating commerce does not include banning products. It does not include a war on drugs.
His Majestic Excellency God-on-Earth Doctor Carl Sagan was successful?
This is a man who literally stood on top of Jimmy Carter's desk in the Oval Office and screamed that we were going into an Ice Age and glaciers would be rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue by the year 2000 if Carter didn't do something about it.
Carter didn't do squat and I don't see an glaciers knocking down Washington's Monument.
You call that successful? The guy was a loser.
Among other things he published more than 600 scientific papers and popular articles and was author, co-author, or editor of more than 20 books. He had degrees in physics, astrophysics and astronomy. He lectured and did research at Harvard University until 1968. He became a full Professor at Cornell in 1971. He worked on the Mariner probes to Venus and correctly predicted a hot, dry surface when others were expecting a tropical paradise. He was among the first to accurately hypothesize that Saturn's moon Titan might possess oceans of liquid hydrocarbon compounds and that Jupiter's moon Europa might possess subsurface oceans of water.
No, not true at all. Regulating commerce does not include banning products. It does not include a war on drugs.
Of course it does. Regulating commerce covers the entire gambit from tariffs to limiting imports, including a complete ban. Regulating commerce means Congress is in control, they can do whatever they please.
It is like many other substances, there is a potential for addiction which can cause many problems in your life. If you can use it without getting addicted and/or it causing problems in your life.....I don't see a problem with occasional use.
Of course it does. Regulating commerce covers the entire gambit from tariffs to limiting imports, including a complete ban. Regulating commerce means Congress is in control, they can do whatever they please.
There was never any intent to BAN commerce. Regulate, yes.
And if so, there is NO authority to ban interstate commerce.
It is like many other substances, there is a potential for addiction which can cause many problems in your life. If you can use it without getting addicted and/or it causing problems in your life.....I don't see a problem with occasional use.
Except that marijuana is not physically addicting. It can be physiologically addicting (in other words, you may THINK you need it) but there is no physical addiction to THC.
In either case, it does not have to be addicting to be bad for you. It is common sense that anything other than air inhaled into your lungs cannot be good for them.
And even if you expand that clause to allow the feds to prohibit, they could only do so if it was commerce between the states.
There is no authority for the war on drugs which goes way beyond interstate commerce.
Pot prohibition increases alcoholic commerce.
The Constitution has no intrastate commerce clause.
The feds owe a lot of reparations in this war.
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