Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Contraband law is inherently Tyrannical.
Contraband law has been used to justify massive violation of the Fourth Amendment. In fact, it really can't be enforced any other way.
If anybody, drug user or not, commits a actual crime of force or fraud, then I say prosecute them for it.
But NOBODY belongs in prison for possessing the wrong plant, medicine, or recreational chemical.
The overtly authoritarian prohibitionist mind is no different than any leftist "well meaning", nanny-state Tyranny-for-our-own-good mindset.
Trampling the Fourth Amendment is a corollary of Prohibition. As long as prohibition exists, so too will all the evils which flow from it, unconstitutional and otherwise.
I much prefer the "evils" which result from the challenging, scary concept called Freedom.
I hear what you are saying...and it definitely is worth considering.
Do you think the Founders were considering this when they created the Fourth amendment? I always thought it was about concerns other than medicinal and recreational drugs.
The states, too, may find a reason to keep their locales free of drug use; do you think the 10th amendment gives them a reasonable latitude to govern themselves the way they see fit?
Behaviours and activities and that are manifestly evident of illegal activity ought to curbed, don’t you think? You say contraband law “has” been used to justify violations of the Constitution, and you are correct, but are there ANY instances where you can think that contraband law is acceptable? To put it antoher way: Does the constitution HAVE to be violated in order to enforce contraband law?
By the way, you have, imo, been the most reasonable poster of someone who disagrees with me on this thread. :)