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I agree that the federal government has no basis to ajudicate or create new federal crimes (including illicit drug-related offenses) in addition to those listed in the Constitution.

So far, so good...

However, I would make an exception for abortion,...

Oy, vey! The very next sentence! This is what makes you a "conservative" and why I am offended when people (including conservatives) insist all Libertarians must also be "conservatives."

I have a better suggestion...why not simply follow the @#$% law?! The problem that you identify can be LEGALLY addressed in 2 ways, 1) a majority of Supreme Court justices can be found to overturn Roe vs Wade, or 2) a Constitutional amendment can be passed, like the 13th Amendment that prohibitted slavery.

The "problem" with solution #2 (from your perspective, not mine!) is that you will almost certainly NEVER have the public (more accurately, Congressional and state legislature) support for a Constitutional amendment banning abortion.

Since you can't find that support, you instead support federal officials violating The Law (the Constitution). That is so very bad, and sooo annoying (to those of us who want the Constitution to be followed). Your (and others') "solution" to the various "problems" has led us to the point where these United States are no longer governed by the Rule of Law. We are now ruled by men and women.

Two wrongs, never, never, NEVER make a right! You just got done saying that the federal government should not legislate on crimes not in the Constitution, and then--in the very next sentence! :-(-- you want them to legislate on a crime not in the Constitution! I have a better suggestion...why not simply follow the @#$% law?!

Your problem is that you attempt to put the law before God which is a great sin whether you realize it or not. Man was not made for the law, but the law for the man. The purpose of good laws are to effect good things. Because we live in a republic and not in a mobocracy as you would have us do, the rights and lives of the minorities are protected in law against the tyranical excesses of the majority who might otherwise vote to deprive them of their lives and liberty. Perhaps the most important purposes of the law is to protect the lives of all men including unborn babies from the likes of people like you that have no qualms in quenching them out. I have tried to be pleasant with you until now going as far as I could to compromise with your badly misprioritized ideological beliefs. However, your allegence to bad laws over good ones is most infuriating and typifyies why I have decried Libertarianism as a disgraced religion. I would not vote Libertarian even if the only alternatives were far-left liberals. Thank you for illustrating my point better than I ever could why Libertarianism and extreme social liberalism is so disgraceful and repulsive.