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Ray Ubinger wrote:
> Ed Green writes:
> 
> > > Isn't federal drug prohibition prohibited by the Tenth Amendment?
> > Not when the commerce crosses state lines, it ain't.
> 
> 1.  Does "power to regulate" really imply power to _prohibit_? 

According to Ed Green:  no.
According to the Supreme Court:  yes.

I know which one *I* put more faith in...

> 2.  Washington's War on Nicotine-and-Other-Drug Users is not confined to
> this delimited inter-state realm, is it?

It provides the legal basis for most of it.  Also, it's not
just inter-state commerce, but that with foreign nations as
well.  Most of the drugs in this country come from somewhere
else.

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Ed Green  DoD#0111    (919) 543-1757    ed_green@vnet.ibm.com