Damn child, you lie as much as the commies. When marijuana is moved internationally or interstate the feds have every ******* right to regulate or outlaw it, via the commerce clause. The only question is, do the feds have the authority to regulate intrastate commerce or marijuana that is grown for personal use and never enters commerce? The courts have ruled they do, because any sources of a commodity has an effect on the overall market. What I don't get is how this doctrine can be extended to a commodity that is illegal in the first place.
But hey, you can keep pretending that congress doesn't have the authority to regulate international and interstate commerce all you want, and you'd still be wrong. Those are powers expressly conveyed by the commerce clause and are by their very nature, constitutional.
More lies, more changing the topic. We weren't discussing whether or not Congress has the right to regulate international and interstate commerce; we were discussing whether or not Congress has the right to ban the USE of marijuana. Here it is again, fir the third time - notice the word USE. I did not ask whether the Congress has the right to regulate international or interstate trade in marijuana.
What's the constitutional authority for the Federal Government to ban the use of marijuana?
You said that the Commerce Clause grants that power. Do you stand by that statement? It's OK if you do; we can disagree, but then you must admit that you're a liar when you say you object to the Congress and the Courts overreaching their authority by leaning on the Commerce Clause. Which is it? In which case are you lying because you are most certainly lying in one or the other.
Here's a quote I find in many results searching your user ID and the word commerce:
The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State. -James Madison Federalist 45
How is regulating the private use of marijuana covered in the commerce clause?
Here's another quote from you, correctly pointing out that the Commerce Clause does not allow the Congress to regulate crops not traded; I'm sure your thoughts are driven by Wickard v Filburn.
The courts interpretation of the commerce clause is a perfect example. There is nothing contained in the clause itself that would allow them to consider everything that could tangentially effect commerce, like crops that are grown to be used on a farm where its grown and never enters into commerce. Activist judges have found otherwise, and I can think of at least one such case where even Scalia screwed the pooch on.
Here's another one you get wrong. Nothing in the Constitution allows an exception to the 4th Amendment regarding commerce, agriculture, or immigration. But, like the marijuana laws, you, like me, support efforts to stop illegal immigration so you, unlike me, support twisted interpretations of the Commerce Clause to support it.
Why do you hate law and order? The Constitution gives the feds every right to inspect commercial vehicles engaged in interstate commerce and our immigration laws, which are constitutional, gives the feds the right to check the status of anyone within 100 miles of the border. Neither are unconstitutional searches.
And another reversal where, once again, the Commerce Clause is about trade and not use:
The courts interpretation of the commerce clause is a perfect example. There is nothing contained in the clause itself that would allow them to consider everything that could tangentially effect commerce, like crops that are grown to be used on a farm where its grown and never enters into commerce. Activist judges have found otherwise, and I can think of at least one such case where even Scalia screwed the pooch on.
Now here's a really crazy twist in your vacillating opinion:
The courts interpretation of the commerce clause is a perfect example. There is nothing contained in the clause itself that would allow them to consider everything that could tangentially effect commerce, like crops that are grown to be used on a farm where its grown and never enters into commerce. Activist judges have found otherwise, and I can think of at least one such case where even Scalia screwed the pooch on.
Apparently, on January 5, 2018, the Commerce Clause didn't apply to regulating intrastate growing of marijuana but on July 10, 2021 the Commerce Clause does apply to the USE of marijuana.
You're a ******* hypocrite. Your opinion changes more often than a baby's diaper. I agree with most of your policy/political views but I do not agree with either the left or the right twisting the Constitution to get what they want out of it.
When you support twisting the Constitution to allow the Government the power to ban marijuana then you must accept that they have the power to twist it in other cases. Otherwise, who is the arbitrator of when and how the government violates the Constitution? Defense of the rights of Americans depend upon absolute defense of the Constitution. You only defend it when you agree with the outcome.