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To: eno_
I'm still waiting for a plain English explanation of where in the Constitution is says the Feds get to regulate a substance like marijuana. Commerce clause? How?

For an explaination of this you have to go back to FDR. He established the governments authority to regulate virtually anything you might have or any activity you might engage in. The Orwellian logic goes something like this:

The federal government has the right to regulate interstate commerce. This gives them the right to prohibit your ownership of anything that could conceiveably be bought, sold, or trade, because you might buy, sell, or trade with someone in another state. A large part of the federal government's expansion, including the WOD is based on this idea that "regulating interstate commerce" actually means "regulating potentially interstate potential commerce".

188 posted on 12/30/2001 4:23:26 PM PST by tacticalogic
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To: tacticalogic
I'm actually very familiar with Commerce Clause abuse, and would be infinitely entertained by any Drug Warrior's attempt to justify federal regulation of a weed when it is plain to everyone who can read that the feds are WAYYYYYY over the line on that (and numerous other post-New Deal laws).

The point is: You don't have to be a Libertarian to be disgusted with the Drug War.

192 posted on 12/30/2001 4:42:07 PM PST by eno_
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