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What the pro-pot legalization Libertarians in the crowd here don't seem to appreciate is that while it was legal in the past, we didn't have the near complete moral and intellectual degeneracy that we have now. This is the issue that John Adams touched upon when he said, "...we have no government, armed with power, capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other"

Once the people untether themselves from an external moral code (God) and abdicate their responsibility for self-control, they essentially become ungovernable under our system of self-government and can therefore no longer be trusted to make wise decisions. This is why the breakdown of society inevitably leads to dictatorship.

Permitting such people to have unfettered access to mind-altering drugs (something that earlier, more mature generations handled without trouble) will only accelerate the current societal decline. Unfortunately, a large portion of the "American people" of today simply aren't mature enough to handle it.

We as conservatives can't on the one hand say (rightly) that the liberal parasites are a danger to the country, but on the other hand think that making it easier for them to obtain psychoactive drugs will somehow lead to Libertarian nirvana. I understand the principle, but in today's world I am afraid that some restrictions are necessary.