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Drug war is illegal?
I remember reading something in the bill of rights or the constitution or somewhere where it says an American has the right to put whatever he wants into his body. Where does it say this? It may not be in those words but I know I've read this somewhere.
8 Answers
- STEVEN FLv 74 years ago
Whatever you read IS NOT in the Constitution INCLUDING the Bill of rights. The closest they come is NOT granting the government the authority to outlaw drugs. As the government is ONLY authorized to do what the Constitution says it can do, that is the argument your source would have to rely on.
- Anonymous4 years ago
The pharmaceutical companies ave it all worked out. They know that if they make medicines that cure diseases, you would use the medicine and then their customer is gone. So they only make drugs that treat or help you manage a disease, not cure it.
- StephenWeinsteinLv 74 years ago
Nowhere in the Bill of Rights or the Constitution. Not just not in those words; not in any words.
I don't know where you think you read it, but it wasn't in either of those places, and it wasn't true.
- Mr. SmartypantsLv 74 years ago
What you read was probably someone's opinion. Lots of people believe we ought to have the right to use drugs if we're adults.
Up to about 1905 it was true. You could walk into any drug store and buy cocaine or morphine or opium. It was the 'Progressive Era' where just about everyone agreed the govt. should step in to regulate narcotics and other dangerous drugs. In 1905 there were thousands of Civil War vets who had been addicted to pain killers since the war!
Also this was a time when health care was expensive/hard to get, so patent medicines flourished. Patent medicine mfgrs were allowed to keep their ingredients secret, as a 'trade secret', so nobody knew what was even in them! People would buy 'soothing syrup' to quiet a fussy baby and not know that the active ingredient was laudanum, i.e. opium dissolved in alcohol.
Of course the progressive era started out well, but you know how politics is--something worth doing is worth overdoing. In another 15 years it led to the prohibition of alcohol. Which was not nearly as popular.
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- NosehairLv 74 years ago
Similar "I think I saw something somewhere" logic (that doesn't exist) serves a huge number of people in this country as "proof" that their goof ball political revelations are righteously correct.
- Anonymous4 years ago
Yes, I'm sure you've read that somewhere. I've read (somewhere) that the earth is flat, too.
You're sooooo fcuking stupid.
- John RLv 74 years ago
It does not say that anywhere in the Constitution. And the Bill of Rights is part of the Constitution, it makes up the first the first 10 Amendments.