[Redworm]

You can't have it both ways, saying the constitution guarentees the right to bear arms, freedom of speech etc. Then claim the constitution has no bearing on what you can or can't do.

The Bill of Rights does not guarantee the right to bear arms, freedom of speech, etc. Those rights, by definition of the word "right", are inherent to human beings and guaranteed by our sentience. Nothing more. What the Bill of RIghts does is tell the government "ok, these are the rights that people are born with and you're not allowed to screw with them". The Constitution does not have a bearing on what we can and can't do as it defines what the government can and can't do.

However, it has also given us our legal system, who are the same individuals that we have elected and made drugs illegal.

Do you know why those drugs, especially marijuana, were made illegal in the first place? Ever heard of the racist Henry Anslinger? Have you ever seen some of the really old drug commercials that claim smoking pot will turn a man into a homicidal maniac or, even worse, get white women to sleep with black musicians ( )? Both the public and the politicans were lied to by the people most able to profit off prohibition.

So, that would lead me to believe that the majority of Americans do not want drugs legal.

Not only does the majority of America not even vote but in our system of government "majority rules" is not the final authority.




edit: here ya go http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...reefer+madness

Reefer Madness. This was the kind of advertising used to convince people that this evil mexican weed known as marihuana was going to ruin the American dream (for the white people, at least).