[Appalled but Not Surprised]

A drug that causes birth defects is relevant.... how?>>>

If the FDA had done its homework and banned it before it hit America, I daresay the babies' rights would have been better protected.

Government protects people from bad drugs. That's one of its jobs.

[mlc9852]

"Government protects people from bad drugs. That's one of its jobs."

And just where is that power enumerated?

[MamaTexan]

If the FDA had done its homework and banned it before it hit America, I daresay the babies' rights would have been better protected.

The subject of the thread is the 'illegality' of marijuana.....please try to stay on the thread topic.

Government protects people from bad drugs. That's one of its jobs.

No, the job of the government is to protect the natural rights of the populace, not to act in a parental capacity

Also, you are confusing a 'drug' (man-made chemical compound) with a PLANT (naturally growing vegetation).

If governments legitimate authority was to PROTECT us, why has not one single court across this country EVER found police liable for NOT protecting someone?

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"An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed."
Norton ~vs~ Shelby County, 118 US 425 p. 442.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"That's one of its jobs."

It looks to me like the Government, at all levels, sees protecting the rights and privileges of Government to be it's primary job.

Michael Frazier

[dcwusmc]

And just WHERE is the authority granted to the government to protect people from bad drugs???

YOUR homework assignment is to READ the Constitution for the United States, starting with the Ninth and Tenth Amendments and then report back on the SPECIFIC SOURCE of FedGov's authorization to "protect" us from bad drugs or its specific source of authority to ban the possession or ingestion of ANYTHING.