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To: DiogenesLamp
>> The huge hideous elephant-gorilla hybrid which is an offense against nature, man, and God than no-one seems to want to acknowledge (much less address), is that the War on Drugs, the very foundation of the Federal government to prohibit drugs, is based on usurped powers and the mere color of authority.
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> No, it's based on real, and constitutionally legitimate authority. Drugs represent an attack on our populace, and the National government has always been empowered to respond to deadly attacks through the Defense clause.

Nope — if it was within the Constitutionally delegated powers then we never would have needed an 18th Amendment.

196 posted on 01/23/2015 3:44:40 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark
Nope — if it was within the Constitutionally delegated powers then we never would have needed an 18th Amendment.

Nonsense. Alcohol has been used by Humanity for 10 million years. It was accepted and long recognized as legal. Drugs are more deadly, and do not meet the standard of social acceptance that alcohol has always had.

237 posted on 01/24/2015 3:49:43 PM PST by DiogenesLamp
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