Reply #21: Actually I think it's worse.. [View All]

[Fumesucker]

Keep in mind that it took a Constitutional Amendment to make alcohol illegal and even then individual possession and consumption of alcohol was not illegal, only sales, manufacture and importation.

For all of the currently illegal drugs no such Amendment was needed and you can get a long prison term for mere possession and the way the laws are written if alcohol and tobacco were included you could be charged with intent to distribute for having a six pack of beer or a pack of cigarettes.

All thanks to the way the SCOTUS has interpreted Commerce Clause.