Did the U.S. Government revoke the tenth amendment to criminalize marijuana?
When Prohibition criminalized alcohol and liquor on January 16, 1919, It was accomplished by the passage of a constitutional amendment requiring ratification by two-thirds of the states. But was there a constitutional amendment banning the consumption of marijuana? If a constitutional amendment was required to ban the consumption of alcohol, why wasn’t a constitutional amendment required to ban the consumption of marijuana? What empowered the federal government to ignore tenth amendment Supreme Court precedents to criminalize marijuana? The tenth amendment of the Constitution stipulates that “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” If the right to consume alcohol required a constitutional amendment to change, shouldn’t the right to consume marijuana also be vested in the people, and require constitutional ratification to deny that right? Prior to the twentieth cent
