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To: Mark Bahner
The Controlled Substances Act is NOT Constitutional!

Of course its constitutional. If it weren't, it would have been overturned long ago. Not every law you disagree with, is unconstitutional. I believe Roe v. Wade is unconstitutional. So far my side has had no success turning that decision around in the USSC. The same is true of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. You can moan and groan all you want, it will get you nowhere.

Anybody who can actually read the Constitution (and the supporting material of those who wrote the Constitution) should be able to see that.

This is very easy to understand. The Constitution is the only lawful document, that guides the Congress in its law making and governance of the USA. There is no supporting material written by anyone, that is considered part of the Constitution. Period! No Federalist Papers, NO papers of Thomas Jefferson, NO papers of James Madison. Nothing!!! The Constitution is a stand alone document, from which all subsequent written law is based on.

216 posted on 05/16/2002 4:15:09 PM PDT by Reagan Man
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To: Reagan Man
You're arguing with idiots. It's hard to imagine any sentient soul arguing that one has a fundamental unalienable right to blow dope.

Liberty is the liberdopians' fig-leaf. The gross ugly nakedness behind it is and always has been their overweening passion to score dope without fear of punishment.

219 posted on 05/16/2002 4:28:07 PM PDT by Kevin Curry
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To: Reagan Man
Of course its constitutional. If it weren't, it would have been overturned long ago.

Bwaahahahahaha! That's good! You're just like the good folks in Animal Farm who read the new commandments: "Four legs good, two legs better."

Instead of (foolishly) trusting the idiots on the Supreme Court (or worse, the idiot Presidents or Congresscritters)...why not simply READ the Constitution (and the supporting literature)?

If you do that, you'll see that there is no way in h@ll that the Founding Fathers ever intended the commerce clause to be used such that certain substances were BANNED...from interstate traffic, or ESPECIALLY from production within states (as cocaine, marijuana, LSD, etc. ALL are).

The Commerce Clause was intended to "make regular" commerce among the "several states"...in the same way a LAXATIVE makes one "regular." Congress was given that power in order to INCREASE commerce among the "several states"...NOT to decrease (or especially BAN) commerce.

One can see that the Commerce Clause was intended to INCREASE commerce among the "several states," because the Articles of Confederation did NOT have such a Congressional power...and the states RESTRICTED commerce more than the Founding Fathers desired.

There is no supporting material written by anyone, that is considered part of the Constitution.

If you totally ignore the supporting documentation, you end up not understanding what the Constitution even means. You come up with your COMPLETELY WRONG understanding of "regulate commerce among the several states," for example.

Or you end up with the completely non-sensical idea that Congress can do ANYTHING that promotes the "general welfare."

Read the Constitution. Read the supporting literature (including simply American history). You'll see that there's no way in h@ll that the Constitution gives Congress the legitimate power to regulate ANY drug. That's precisely why an amendment was necessary for alcohol Prohibition. (Given your WRONG interpretation, do you think that the 18th Amendment was not necessary? Do you think Congress simply could have passed the Volstead Act, without a supporting Constitutional amendment?)

225 posted on 05/16/2002 4:37:49 PM PDT by Mark Bahner
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To: Reagan Man
Get the hats folks!!! Forget the WOD, they now produce 'religous experience' electronically!!! They can stimulate various regions of the brain to produce many different sensations, with coils of wire! (pleasure,pain,dog,fear,agression,anxiety) This is cool if 'they' agree with your belief system, but what if they don't? Sci-Fi is here now, no need for drugs! Better ban electronic decives that emit _any_ EMR just to be safe! (the levels used for brain stimulation are teeny weeny amounts) Let me go on record saying, I think it is my business what I do with my body,brain, and thoughts, not yours, not 'your' government's/GOD's. As I understand it, HE respects the right NOT to believe and accept the consecuences HE deems fit. But if I infringe on your _rights_, use what is left of your second amendment rights to rectify THAT. What will you do when O2 sniffing gains _more_ momentum??? It absolutely produces different thought patterns!!! (It shall now become criminal to posess oxygen in any concentration greater than can be found on the surface of the Earth in it's natural form without fed & state license) Far Left and far Right always scream loudest about the 'other' zealots. I hate 'em both and they hate me. That's fair! I have seen lives ruined by drugs,alcohol,religion,politics,resentment,hate,food,whatever. It is their RIGHT to fail in that manner if they so choose. The USA began as a place where people understood this, but since it has become everyone elses business/problem/responsibility. All men are created equal, but the moment of creation is billions of years in the past.
255 posted on 05/16/2002 6:38:05 PM PDT by Hermes37
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