You keep pinging me to this thread. Is this about drug leagization, or the drug war?
The federal drug war is a blatant abuse of the Commerce Clause, just like the EPA, OSHA, Departments of Energy and Education, NLRB, and legislation like the Assault Weapons Ban, the Endangered Species Act, and the VAWA. But ending the federal drug war is not “legalization”. Every state has their own drug laws on the books. If the DEA was disbanded tomorrow all the drugs that are illegal in your state would still be illegal.
Don’t drag me into a semantic mess that’s got drug legalization conflated with ending the federal drug war and where nobody involved understands the difference or cares that there is one.
It’s about both. I advocate for legalization but I realize you are not for that. Apparently, however, some in this thread don’t understand the limits that the Tenth Amendment places on the Feds, so that is why.
It is also true that states could not afford to wage a real war on drugs if they didn’t have the help of the Feds in waging it.
Alaska has fully legalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana. If the federal laws were removed tomorrow, it would still be legal to possess small quantities in Alaska.