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How does that apply ?”
Ok, let me try to explain. There was no authorization in the Constitution, as it was written, for the Federal government to regulate drugs, alcohol, or anything along those lines. That’s why, when there was a push for alcohol prohibition, everyone knew that an amendment had to be passed to grant the government that authority.
This all changed with the Wickard decision, because the Supreme Court found a way to justify expanding the power of the Federal government to regulate almost anything. They claimed that this justification lay in the Interstate Commerce clause of the Constitution, which had previously only been interpreted as simply allowing the Feds to step in and mediate disputes between the states in matters of commerce.
The case involved a wheat farmer who disobeyed a federal limit on wheat production. The farmer claimed that the wheat was for his own personal use, so the federal government had no authority to regulate it, since it would never cross a state border. The Supreme Court decided that, since the mere production of wheat for personal use could reduce demand, and affect the market price of wheat in other states, that this was enough of a connection to interstate commerce to allow the feds to butt in and tell the farmer what he could grow on his own land, for his own use.
This has been expanded in the years since to justify drug prohibition and all sorts of other expansions of the Federal government, at the expense of the rights of the states and the people.
Very interesting information and thanks a lot for taking the time to post it to me . Never heard of this angle .
You have to excuse me , I write what I write through simply direct personal experience , and that’s all it is , my own personal experience and observations locally . I alone will stem the tide of nothing . I used to think weed was the best thing since ice cream . That was then .....I woke up and took a good look at the way it seems to cause the great majority of smoker , that I know and/or observe , to act, and behave and how they vote . To me there is a correlation I cannot deny . Thanks again .