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Jacob Sullum

SHOCKING: Does the constitution protect the right to get high | Mind Blowing Facts

The Constitution of the War on Drugs, by David Pozen, Oxford University Press, 304 pages, $27.95

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Justice Samuel Alito's majority opinion mocked "attempts to justify abortion" by asserting "a broader right to autonomy." After all, he wrote in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, that concept "could license fundamental rights to illicit drug use, prostitution, and the like." Alito thought it was obvious that "none of these rights has any claim to being deeply rooted in history."

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