At least when Prohibition of Alcohol was passed, they were honest about it and amended the Constitution.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it empower the Feds to regulate what people choose to consume, and once upon a time the Feds were honest about it and changed the Constitution to empower them to do it.
Federal drug laws, ALL OF THEM INCLUDING THE FDA, are unconstitutional. Keeping everyone safe and sober are NOT enumerated powers.
How you “feel” about it, or what you “believe” is correct does not matter.
This short circuiting of the correct process has led to legislation without representation from unaccountable bureaucrats issuing diktats. The EPA, DEA, and BATFE are PRIME EXAMPLES of this behavior.
By the way, these three turds in the punchbowl were created by an electable, liberal Republican named Nixon.
It goes back further to Harry Anslinger and his devil weed campaign. Back then they realized that outright prohibition
of the evyl weed was on shakey Constitutional grounds and
formulated a law based on a tax stamp that was impossible to get.