Banning harmful drugs is absolutely Constitutional. If it weren’t, every anti American ACLU and Pot Head with a law degree would have banded together and went to the Supreme Court.
No, they would only do that if that move served their ends, and it doesn't. Our president, for instance, loves the power he has in his office. He and the rest of the Left, including the ACLU, have no interest in limited government. The Constitution is the enemy of the Left and they do not want to be restrained by it. Just ask yourself why, if what you say is true, the ACLU never defends people deprived of their second amendment rights? They also fail to defend the rights of the millions of people killed in abortions. By your reasoning Roe v. Wade is Constitutional and I seriously cannot imagine any conservative arguing that.
If you really believe that the Federal Government has the Constitutional authority to regulate our consumption of particular substances then why, I wonder, did we have the 18th amendment? It seems strange to get an amendment to do what the Constitution gave Congress the power to regulate. And, if such an amendment had to exist then where are those which cover cannabis, narcotics, or any other such substances? I don't support drug use, but I do support Constitutional restraint on the government. If we concede extra-constitutional authority in the case of drugs then there is no way to argue about other issues, such as education, guns, abortion, health care, etc.
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