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You will find the answer here https://www.ushistory.org/gov/3a.asp

Short answer if you're busy and don't have the time to read the link, article 1 section 8 of the constitution. It's known as the implied powers of the federal government.
No sir, no mention of the authority to regulate substances of any type there. Also, no text of Article 1 Secition 8 there either.

Let me help you. Please highlight the area in Article 1, Section 8 that grants the federal government authority over narcotics.

Section 8.

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;

To establish post offices and post roads;

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;

To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;

To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

To provide and maintain a navy;

To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And

To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

 
My sister is much older than me and been smoking it since she was in hs, she graduated class of 1971. I remember because I was in kindergarden when she graduated hs and my dad caught her and her friend smoking it it in the bedroom I shared with her. She and her friends have been smoking it for many decades and they're fairly healthy for their age, none of them has developed cancer or any other smoking related issues. In fact I'd say it's helped some of her friends because they were always insufferable cunts until they got high
 
Thanks for clarifying that. Because what you quoted and your response was saying that simply disagreeing was criminal. I was hoping you wasn't that far gone.

Being a criminal isn't so bad anyways. Hiding runaway slaves was once a criminal act, hiding Jews was once a criminal act. Today collecting rainwater or feeding homeless people are often times criminal acts. Being a criminal in a world run by tyrants is often the morale thing to do.

Jesus was law breaking criminal after all.
I'm not saying it's necessarily morally bad, just technically against the law. I believe that all gun laws are unconstitutional, but the fact that I'm like most law-abiding gun owners...I abide by the law and try to change those that are anti-2A.
 
Thanks for clarifying that. Because what you quoted and your response was saying that simply disagreeing was criminal. I was hoping you wasn't that far gone.

Being a criminal isn't so bad anyways. Hiding runaway slaves was once a criminal act, hiding Jews was once a criminal act. Today collecting rainwater or feeding homeless people are often times criminal acts. Being a criminal in a world run by tyrants is often the morale thing to do.

Jesus was law breaking criminal after all.
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One of the worst parts of dope is what it does to cities where it's been legalized. Some of my favorite places out west have been ruined by weed and the culture surrounding it. It's a damn shame. Helena MT for instance...it's fallen off of a cliff and it's been sad to see.

Helena Montana? My son lives less than an hour from Helena and I was just in Helena last month for work. I actually spent several weeks in Helena this summer for work.

The "casino" on every corner has done far more damage to Montana than the dispensaries have. The funny thing is, the casinos aren't really casinos, but liquor stores operating under the guise of casinos because some holy rollers thought it would be a good idea to not issue any more liquor licenses for liquor stores. So instead of liquor stores, we now have 7 "casinos" every block you drive.

You hardly even notice the dispensaries in Montana unless you look for them, and from what I have been told, the product sold in Montana is very weak.

I smell more weed in Kennesaw on an average weekday than I smelled over the past 3 years combined in Montana. The few people in Montana who smoke weed (few because there are few people in Montana period) were smoking weed before Montana made it legal.

What are you talking about?
 
Here you go
They found that prior to the legalization of marijuana in the state, about 8.8% of drivers involved in fatal traffic crashes tested positive for THC. Over the 12-24 months following legalization, that percentage more than doubled, to 18%.Mar 8, 2022
https://www.plevinandgallucci.com › ...
Marijuana-Related Car Accidents - Plevin & Gallucci


They found that from 2000 to 2018 the percentage of crash deaths involving cannabis increased from 9 percent to 21.5 percent, and the percentage of deaths involving cannabis and alcohol also more than doubled, from 4.8 percent to 10.3 percent.

What did the total number of crashes per year do? Did it go up as well? Legalize something that stays in your system for a month and the number of things that happen to people who test positive for having that thing in their system will go up. Simple math. What matters though, is did the number of crashes increase as well, and if so how much?
 
How about the process of illegally growing and transporting and selling contraband? Still victimless? Nope. You're supporting drug cartels and violent gangs. I don't know of too many that are harmless. Dope doesn't come down like manna from heaven.

Those cartels exist because the government tries to control something it has no business or ability to control. Violent gangs will be a thing one way or the other, however, they engage in the drug trade because it is profitable...because the government is trying to control something it has no business or ability to control.

Congratulations, you stopped nothing and created a violent criminal market. Yay!
 
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