Times-Standard, 13 Oct 2010 – Voters are about to decide whether to legalize marijuana, or not, through Proposition 19. Hearing this, I wanted to remind people to study their rights guaranteed by our Constitution. Technically, marijuana is not "illegal" at all. There is no enumerated power in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution that allows Congress to conduct a "war on drugs." Does anyone remember prohibition? Before the 18th Amendment was adopted in 1919, our national government had no power to conduct a war on alcohol. Let’s explain this in simple terms.