[DiogenesLamp]

States can't violate restrictions placed on them by the Constitution, which includes "no slavery" but not "no pot."

But with pot, the slavery isn't put on the users so much as on those of us who have to pay for them to sit around all day drawing welfare instead of working.

I am firmly against slavery, and so we shouldn't let any drug addicts make us into slaves.

[ConservingFreedom]

But with pot, the slavery isn't put on the users so much as on those of us who have to pay for them to sit around all day drawing welfare instead of working.

I am firmly against slavery, and so we shouldn't let any drug addicts make us into slaves.

Pot bans also affect non-welfare recipients; your goal can be accomplished with no collateral damage by conditioning welfare on the passing of drug tests - or, for that matter, an end to welfare.