Legalization: The drug war and controlling your own body

The libertarian argument for ending drug prohibition: it's a violation of the Constitution's structure, in which the people grant powers to the federal government and retain, as rights, those powers not so granted.

The drug war and controlling your own body | SmallGovTimes.com: "(W)here in the Constitution does the federal government find the power to ban or regulate drugs? In 1920, people understood this; when they wanted to ban alcohol, they passed a constitutional amendment. You can’t say much good about the prohibitionists, but at least they had enough respect for the Constitution to go through the formal amendment process.

But we have never passed a constitutional amendment granting the federal government any power to ban marijuana, or cocaine or other drugs. The federal government’s contemporary prohibition policy is an illegal and unconstitutional usurpation of a power never granted to it." Oct. 26, 2010, David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute