[Ken H]

The USA has done great and our Blessed Constitution has done great for us for centuries without the ridiculous pot smokers traipsing along in the last 20 years claiming that banning pot violates your personal liberty.

Over 70 years ago, we adopted an expansive view of the Commerce Clause which allowed fedgov to get its foot in the door to control education, health care, the environment and a host of other concerns.

As Clarence Thomas put it in US v Lopez:

I am aware of no cases prior to the New Deal that characterized the power flowing from the Commerce Clause as sweepingly as does our substantial effects test. My review of the case law indicates that the substantial effects test is but an innovation of the 20th century.

Your drug war depends on the New Deal Commerce Clause for its existence. So let me ask a question that prohibitionist almost always duck:

Do you think national marijuana prohibition is in keeping with the original understanding of the Commerce Clause and Tenth Amendment... yes or no?

[dennisw]

Do you think national marijuana prohibition is in keeping with the original understanding of the Commerce Clause and Tenth Amendment... yes or no?

1. I am a fan of The Tenth
2. I believe in the original interpretations of the Commerce Clause.
3. The Federal Gov has used this clause to madly overreach
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5. I have no problem with current Federal marijuana laws because marijuana is trafficked across national borders and state borders all the time
6. How about meth and coacaine0? You want that legalized via the Tenth Amendment?
7. Are there any efforts to make Farmer John's California grown marijuana that is only sold in California,  100% legal in California? Let me know. That might sneak in under The Tenth
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9. Say some New York researchers discover a very good drug but they can't afford the millions it takes to get FDA approval---
10. would you approve of it being manufactured and distributed in New York only? What if someone from New Jersey buys that drug and takes it to New Jersey? How do you prosecute him?

[tacticalogic]

It appears that after you’ve had enough beer to make the New Deal look “great” you have just enough time to post a comment to FR before you pass out.