Question by heaven35: Are drug laws even legal according to the Constitution?
I know there laws against drug but do you think our founding fathers would agree to them,or no?Also what do you think our laws on drugs will be like when our generation get older,and the baby boomer goes into retirement?Please give me your personal opinion on drugs laws,and where the constitution stands on them.I don`t do drugs,nor will i ever try but it still suppose to be free country right?Drugs are bad but still.
Best answer:
Answer by Señor Sñarky
A free country doesn’t mean that you have the right to do whatever you want. It’s a republic so we elect representatives to make laws for us that represent our values. Somewhere along the line our representatives decided that drugs were bad and that’s what the majority of Americans apparently agree with because the laws haven’t been taken down and there hasn’t been a major push to remove them (present efforts for marijuana excluded).
What do you think? Answer below!
#1 by Pfo on July 26, 2010 - 12:34 pm
Drug abuse was much less common in the days of the founding fathers. If anything, alcohol was abused. It’s hard to answer what they would think about today, but I’m inclined to believe they would not sit idly by and allow people to use coccaine and heroine to death.
They would not just sit there and say their is nothing they can do about it.
#2 by Eisbär on July 26, 2010 - 1:20 pm
Yes drug laws are constitutional because the states have the right to make criminal laws via the tenth amendment. And in regards to the Federal Controlled Substance Act, the feds have a right via the Commerce Clause to regulate any activity that affects interstate commerce. Drug trafficking is deemed to affect interstate commerce so therefore they may regulate it. So yes, it is definitely constitutional.