[OneWingedShark]

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.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Not sure what beast you mean, but I’d agree that it has stretched the Federal constitution beyond any likely original intent to construe it as bestowing the power to ban something within a state (cf the infamous Wickard) based upon secondary effects. This restriction was a feature, not a bug. If a state wanted to do something foolish, within generous limits it could. Others could learn from its example.

[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.

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.

Now people allege that it is the Commerce clause from which their authority derives, but this is incorrect. They are just using an abuse of power granted to them through Wickard v. Filburn, but the real and legitimate authorization lies in the Defense clause.

The enemy is even now sending in Drones to deliver their chemical weapon payload.