Umm, no, they were found to be unconstitutional so it would seem that your definition of the system works. Laws aren't found to be Constitutional or not until after they are passed and someone challenges it all the way to the Supreme Court.
Quick history lesson, since you seem to be at a knowledge loss. The Constitution specifically protected slavery:
Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1,
"The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person"
Slavery lasted for nearly a century under Constutional protection, and by your own logic, all of that enslavement was justified by mere existence of said document. Your position is ridiculous, untenable, and defies all logic or reason. Moreover, a war occurred in order to bring about the institution's end. Not the Supreme Court. War.
Secondly, Jim Crow was
CREATED by the Supreme Court. Plessy v Ferguson (1896) deemed that segregation was constitutional. By your logic, the desperate conditions it created were wholly justified because this oppression was sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Like your defense of slavery, this too is a ridiculous position to take.
No argument from me but in this country, and most democracies, there is a process to fix that.
The process is broken. And by the admission of many on this board, the system is not functioning as intended. The checks and balances have been dismantled, and power rests in the hands of a few who choose the candidates for you to vote on, choose the talking points for you to hear on the news, and funnel sheep such as yourself into attacking Blacks and poor people and ignoring the abuses of the power structure.
It never occurs to you that you're being manipulated.
I'm thinking that drug laws have been on the books long enough that if they were unconstitutional then that would have been decided by the Supreme Court by now.
Slavery and Jim Crow were on the books longer than our current gun and drug war policies. By your logic, slavery and Jim Crow were completely justified because the Supreme Court sanctioned them over time. Following this twisted logic, one tends to wonder how long injustice must occur before it magically becomes legitimate. 40 years? 60?
On one hand you seem like a smart guy but on the other hand you sure do confuse "unconstitutional" with "laws that I don't like" a lot. I mean, I don't like speed limits but I don't waste my breath arguing that they're unconstitutional.
I could lay out a concise constitutional argument against both gun control and the war on drugs. But as I've proved above, it would be a waste of time with you. You're convinced that if a dysfunctional system does not correct itself in a timely manner, that the unjust fruits of that dysfunction become legitimized as accepted dogma.
You're a sharp guy. But more witty than thoughtful. Not much of a critical thinker.