Congress Accidentally Legalized Weed Six Years Ago

Re:Congress Accidentally Legalized Weed Six Years Ago by 0cf8612b2e1e on Monday July 15, 2024 @02:46PM (#40970387)

Regulating sale of crops (via taxes, quality control standards, defining a vegetable, or even the standardized size of a bushel) seem government rights with exceedingly long precedent. The constitution was signed when the economy was predominantly agricultural.

I appreciate the outcome, even though I detest the, “I’ll use it when it benefits my beliefs” kind of execution.

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Re:Congress Accidentally Legalized Weed Six Years Ago by lesuorac on Monday July 15, 2024 @06:26PM (#40972001)

Does it?

The original intent of the 5th amendment was that even your stuff couldn't be used against you in a court of law. The Founders were all wealthy businessmen committing treason; surely they'd have been in support of a very weak government when they later framed the Constitution.

The USDA is 1862 and some of the more famous events like "The Jungle" [1] leading to food safety laws are well after the Constitution. Getting sick an dieing was just a fact of the old times and I don't think people were like "lets band together and use government to make use get less sick".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Meat_Inspection_Act#Hi...

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Re:Congress Accidentally Legalized Weed Six Years Ago by throwup238 on Monday July 15, 2024 @07:54PM (#40972518)

They were in support of a weak government when they wrote the Articles of Confederation. They wrote the Constitution a decade later because that turned out to be such a disaster.

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Re:Congress Accidentally Legalized Weed Six Years Ago by weberer on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @05:56AM (#40974995)

That was supposed to only affect interstate commerce according to the constitution, but a supreme court case in 1942 gave the federal government way more power than originally intended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

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