Not really that long, not until FDR's New Deal was rammed through his supreme court with the first model for criminalizing drugs federally without an amendment.
Of course Roe vs Wade made abortion legal, as it was a 'constitutional right', not that it is mentioned in the Constitution. Face it, the courts since FDR have had their own agenda.
133 posted on 09/20/2002 10:05:58 PM PDT by rb22982