is convicting a person for posessing (not selling) cannabis constitutional? they only harm themselves?

Question

I mean possession without intent to sell (hypothetically; obviously this is tough to prove in real life). This is also assuming a person harms no-one by exposing them to the smoke or driving and operating machinery while intoxicated. Selling could definitely be considered harming someone else but how could using it yourself be unconstitutional then if you harm on-one but yourself? The cost incurred when NHS has to pay for your lung cancer treatment or psychosis? (these conditions are definitely cannabis induced in many cases
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Answer 1

You've basically hit the crux of the war on drugs. You are only harming yourself, its a victimless crime, but yet it was declared illegal in the 30's (I think), so therefore its an arrestable offense. It would seem that if you hold to a strict contruction of the constitution, there is nothing unconstitutional about it. There are several laws out here that have nothing to do with our founding documents, they're based on the christian principle that morality and lifestyle are something to be controlled by government. Hundreds of thousands of people die every year from cigarettes and alcohol, but those are legal. Weed has never caused and overdose, but it made mexicans violent in the 20's so it had to be banned, or according to the bible thumpers anyway. Its pathetic, and I don't even smoke!

Answer 2

It is funny how the federal government grows this and gives it to patients every month!! Not as many patients as the states of course but they still do grow it and give it to patients!!

When asking questions you really need to do some basic homework. Smoking is not the only way to get the THC into the system. Do your homework....psychosis LMAO! whatever....

Answer 3

Yes.

Congress is empowered to pass laws. Smoking weed is against federal law.

Any idiot caught with it can be jailed because they're breaking the law.

There are no constitutional issues involved.

Answer 4

It is definitely against the law to have it in your possession.....however, there is no law against having it in your system. Its illegal to carry weed on your person but it isn't illegal to be stoned out of your gourd. Go figure.