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"Congress has provided them with detailed justifications between its controlled substances statutes and its Constitutional powers under general welfare and interstate commerce."

1) "Controlled substances statutes" can never establish any power beyond that which is in the Constitution.

2) "Interstate commerce" (actually "commerce among the several states") is merely a subset of the powers granted to Congress to promote the "general welfare." There is NO general power conferred by the "general welfare" clause of Article I, Section 8.

3) Congress, in its Controlled Substances Act, exceeds its authority under the clause dealing with "commerce among the several states," because it unconstitutionally reaches into states to prohibit manufacturing, possession, and sale that occur entirely within one state. (For example, the unconstitutional over-riding of state referenda on medical marijuana.)

Why anyone who comes to a site with the name "Free Republic" would support such tyranny (violation of The Law by the federal government) is puzzling. The only reason I can think of is that these people must be "conservatives." (Which explains the phenomenon, but certainly doesn't excuse it.)