"So do I have a privacy right that makes it OK to use cocaine?"
Actually, you probably do. Trouble is that you have no cocaine, naturally. To obtain some, you must get it from a third party. That's where your privacy ends, you see.
However, if you can create cocaine in your home, with no outside sources, you could probably win your case. Since you cannot, you cannot.
The only prohibition that should be possible with federal law on acquiring substances should be interstate commerce. If I acquired it locally, then only state laws should apply. This flies in the face of the problems California residents have been getting from the feds in their medical marijuana issue.
I should have made my example marijuana, because it is easily kept entirely private. People grow it right in their homes, so not even state commerce laws should apply.
I'm just amazed that there haven't been legal cases attempting to use privacy as a defense. I'm also amazed that the anti-abortion crowd doesn't point this contradiction out in order to attack Roe. That's the reason I brought this subject up.
I'm not a druggie, although I resent the government telling me what I can do with my body. It's mine, dammit. I should be able abuse it if I want, whether it's eating too much chicken fried steak or smoking dope.
Well reasoned, well said.