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Originally Posted by roachboy
dk---i don't mean to be obtuse, but i have no idea where you're heading with your question. could you make it clearer please?
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when congress makes a law that 'tightens' up controls on a certain substance, people look at it as a GREAT thing that our beloved government is doing something to make our lives better, but nobody ( and I really mean nobody) bothers to look at why are we letting a government abuse it's authority to make us feel like we're being protected.
Congress uses the commerce clause to make federal laws that they otherwise wouldn't have the constitutional authority to make. Most people don't give a damn about this overreach of authority because they have decided that the states governments are inadequate to deal with some crisis or another. The real truth to this is that most people are quite willing to scrap the constitution altogether in order to let the government make any laws that those particular people feel necessary to make society more 'orderly' or lawful.
The laws that now mandate people to show an ID and sign for purchasing medicines that contain the component pseudoephedrine are based on the commerce clause, that same clause that allows congress to make marijuana illegal.
many times in several posts about legalizing marijuana, i've tried to point out to people the absurdity of congressional power grabbing using the commerce clause and either people are too wary of restricting the federal governments power to make feel good laws, or they just really don't care about the constitution and would rather let the government make shit up on the fly.
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Originally Posted by Derwood
Didn't upset me at all. I don't get mad at stuff like that; I know I'm doing nothing wrong, signing the page takes 5 seconds, and it's designed to help prevent abuse. Hardly a sacrifice
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case in point right here. Derwood doesn't feel affected by taking a few extra seconds to register his name in a federal database to show he's purchased a now controlled substance because a very small percentage figured out how to use a chemical in those cold products to make an illicit drug. So as long as he doesn't FEEL affected, he's willing to let congress do what they want.