[MamaTexan]

to tell the folks what he's been through the last several months & make the case to making marijuana legal again.

I'm still trying to find their authority to make it illegal to begin with.

Has anyone else found the power to tell the people what they can posses or ingest in the Constitution?

[libertyman]

No, they can't find this authority, regardless of what the Drug Warriors say--because it doesn't exist! The Constitution is VERY specific when it comes to naming the crimes that the federal government has the authority to punish...& the 10th Amendment leaves all other crime-fighting responsibilities to the states.

The federal government is BLATANTLY ignoring & violating the 9th Amendment by its persecution of medical marijuana users (& their doctors as well) in the states that have enacted its use under state law.

[robertpaulsen]

"Has anyone else found the power to tell the people what they can posses or ingest in the Constitution?"

Here ya go. Educate yourself. I'm getting tired of you asking this question in every thread -- now you know the answer.

Interstate Commerce: National Prohibitions and State Police Power
"The earliest such acts were in the nature of quarantine regulations and usually dealt solely with interstate transportation. In 1884, the exportation or shipment in interstate commerce of livestock having any infectious disease was forbidden. In 1903, power was conferred upon the Secretary of Agriculture to establish regulations to prevent the spread of such diseases through foreign or interstate commerce. In 1905, the same official was authorized to lay an absolute embargo or quarantine upon all shipments of cattle from one State to another when the public necessity might demand it. A statute passed in 1905 forbade the transportation in foreign and interstate commerce and the mails of certain varieties of moths, plant lice, and other insect pests injurious to plant crops, trees, and other vegetation. In 1912, a similar exclusion of diseased nursery stock was decreed, while by the same act and again by an act of 1917, the Secretary of Agriculture was invested with powers of quarantine on interstate commerce for the protection of plant life from disease similar to those above described for the prevention of the spread of animal disease."

Congress has the power to regulate commerce among the states. That power to regulate includes the power to prohibit.

Deal with it. You don't like the law, change it.