Today is the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition. The 21st Amendment, repealing the 18th Amendment, was ratified on December 5th, 1933.

I would like to hoist my glass to the fact that, at the time of Prohibition there was near-universal agreement that the Federal government did NOT have the power to ban alcohol nationally without a Constitutional Amendment. These days of course, with the current interpretation of the Commerce Clause in cases like Gonzales v. Raich, the power of the Federal government to “regulate commerce” allows for the criminalization of growing a plant on one’s own property for one’s own personal consumption. Why is that considered “commerce”? Because, the Supreme Court says so.

We’ve come a long way, baby.