dragonrider understands what I mean with my post. Everyone going on about how other drugs are not chemically related to ethanol are way off on this one. And ZiggyBuggyDoog is right about interstate commerce. The first case like that I heard about was in 1942 when some thunderfuck of a Supreme Court justice said that a farmer who grew wheat on his farm to use as feed for his own animals and for his own family to eat was required to include that in his production tallies for the wheat production limits. Because wheat is a product which is often shipped across state lines. In other words, that the interstate commerce clause overrules the entire rest of the Constitution and gives the federal government completely limitless powers over everything, even the power to negate future amendments. You probably can't even amend the Constitution if the gov. doesn't want you to since the proposed amendment would have to move from one state to another. Even elections can be made illegal if the candidates travel to more than one state or send advertisements to various states according to that logic. It's obviously blatantly a misinterpretation, and I can't seem to find the names of the judges who were on that court, but a Justice Jackson delivered the opinion, and he and his cohorts should have been hung for treason. Their opinion argued that the power to regulate interstate commerce included the power to prevent private interests from producing their own materials if they are materials which can be purchased from markets selling that product produced in various state, and forcing them to purchase those materials from a designated market.
The opinion further stated that anything the government wanted to do regarding any private transactions whatsoever would no longer be restrained by courts, but only through
political process. In the case of Wickard V. Filburn,
the Supreme Court ruled that the entirety of the constitution was effectively null and void due to the highest precedence
and unlimited scope of the Interstate Commerce clause.
The United States that had once been a great nation
was no more as far as I'm concerned, and I declare myself a one-man nation right here and now. Anybody wanna join me?