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To: JustSayNoToNannies

The Constitution requires an Amendment to have any prohibition. Last I checked we repealed the last one and have not amended the Constitution for another one.

The issue is NOT should drugs be legal? The Issue is why are we letting the federal government enact a 2nd prohibition without constitutional authority?


12 posted on 03/20/2012 3:38:40 PM PDT by Mechanicos (Why does the DOE have a SWAT Team?)
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To: Mechanicos

The Constitution requires an Amendment to have any prohibition. Last I checked we repealed the last one and have not amended the Constitution for another one.


Vin Suprynowicz, in his book “Send In the Waco Killers”, pointed out that there was general agreement in 1900 that a Constitutional Amendment would be necessary to ban alcohol (or any other substance).

After Prohibition was passed and experienced, it was repealed; but the same year it was repealed, Congress passed drug prohibition laws ... without a backlash. By that time, there had been so many overreaches by the FedGov that no one complaiined that that the new drug laws were unconstitutional.


18 posted on 03/20/2012 4:39:35 PM PDT by Mack the knife
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