I don’t disagree. But it’s very obvious the feds have swollen WAY beyond what the Founders had in mind.
Not being personally affected by the drug laws, it’s difficult for me to work up a great deal of indignation over them. I agree they’re unconstitutional, but then so is at least 2/3 of what the feds do.
“Not being personally affected by the drug laws, it’s difficult for me to work up a great deal of indignation over them. I agree they’re unconstitutional, but then so is at least 2/3 of what the feds do.”
Granted! But, they ALL upset me to the point of indignation.
But on a personal note, my brother spent time in prison due to drug use (he did something really stupid while high)! I had a niece that almost ODed on crack! Both of these DID affect me personally; however, those were their choices (however misguided - and against family and friends wishes) and both have since corrected their lifestyles and are prospering due to the lessons learned! So, I have seen the bad effects of drugs, but hey, I have lost more friends to drunk drivers than anything else - and I would NEVER think to ask the government to outlaw beer because a few idiots abused it!
Now, on a much grander scale, two months ago, we had a house two doors down (and across the street) blow up - crack house explosion (luckily there were three Darwin Award nominees inside). It took two fire houses to put out this fire! Then it cost the county $9400.00 to come tear down the house and clean-up (to EPA standards) the fallout! If this was regulated and legal, then there would be many LESS of these type incidents in residential areas! And less of my TAX dollars cleanup after these idiots! And more on the waste of tax dollars, last month, we had a SWAT-styled raid (26 heavily armed DEA, sheriffs and deputies). In this “drug house” just a few streets over from my house (although I live way out in the country) they made six arrests and collected less than two grams of cocaine and two joints - NO MONEY found! How much money was wasted on this “drug house” raid for six arrests (all of which will be dropped, because no one had any in their possession - this was found in the home and the home owner was not present)!!!! Waste of money and time!
While this was happening, there was a robbery at the local gas station and a car was stolen that night from my street - waste of resources, etc... This is why I am so disgusted with this complete waste of tax dollars!!