So do I have a privacy right that makes it OK to use cocaine?
You try that, and they'll invoke a commerce clause...:)
"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.
I believe so. You also have a right to use cocaine or bear arms or advocate home schooling or do anything which hysterical control freaks say poses a "potential" or "theoretical" danger to others. It is irrelevant whether or NOT it is considered a privacy right or even a right to do as you damn well please out in public, again without REALLY posing a danger to others (while respecting LOCAL laws against public nuisances, using drugs in public, public indecency, inciting to riot, etc., of course).
"A right is a claim to freedom of action (including that of securing privacy) which is the basis for the 'basic golden rule,' which is: 'Do nothing unto others you wouldn't want them to do unto you,' or, as Alfred the Great put it, "What ye will that other men should not do to you, that do ye not to other men." (King Alfred's Book of Laws, circa 878 AD, according to Winston Churchill's History of the English Speaking Peoples)"As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, 'The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.' Rights must apply to everyone in the same sense at the same time. So rights must therefore be limited to claims of freedom to do anything which does not violate the freedoms of others. This requires recognizing, respecting and abiding by anyone else's wishes to be left alone whenever he wants, and his wishes to be free to do anything which doesn't violate others. This is why no one can claim a 'right' to interfere with your life in any way without your explicit, personally-given consent for a specified purpose. There can be no such thing as a 'right' for anyone (or any group) to mess with you whenever he wants (or whenever they want) since it obviously isn't applying to YOU in the same sense at the same time.
-- from this page on rights
I would say yes, on the condition that you do so only at home, and do not venture into public area's until all effects have completely worn off.
Actually, you do. However, manufacturing it, importing it, possessing it, appearing in public while under its influence, or engaging in commerce in it remain constitutionally prohibited.
Actually, you do. However, manufacturing it, importing it, possessing it, appearing in public while under its influence, or engaging in commerce in it remain constitutionally prohibited.