There will be a booming black market in GHB, mark my words. Socialism sucks people into a vile smelling black morass of stagnant strangulation by red tape fostering gross government intrusion into our lives.
Competition is the thing that makes the world work, and socialism suppresses competition.
The Supreme Court ruled today the government lacks authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug, rejecting the Clinton administration's main anti-smoking initiative. The agency has amply demonstrated that tobacco use, particularly among children and adolescents, poses perhaps the single most significant threat to public health in the United States. O'Connor's opinion was joined by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy and Clarence Thomas. Dissenting were Justices Stephen G. Breyer, John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Writing for the four, Breyer said the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act allows the FDA to regulate tobacco.