So you destroy lives through legislation and state power to save them? Nixon would be proud. Freedom must only apply to what the state allows. Guns, booze, prescription drugs, and junk food. I hope you are proud of the America you and your fellow prison pimps have created. America, number one jailer world wide amongst industrialized nations. Are you proud of what your ideas and policies have created because you have failed this nation, destroyed lives, eroded freedom, and enabled the federal police state. Responsibility lies at your foot. Will you do the honorable thing and take ownership or will you howl continue to put your head in the dirt, hiding from reality worse than any dope fiend. Your drug is denial. Maybe we should criminalize that, lock you up, and strip your rights so you can understand the depth of your own moral failure. When the law becomes more destructive than the behavior you have outlawed, surely then you will admit failure.
When Americans go to War we do not Cut & Run.
That goes for the war against the Imperial Japanese and the Nazis as well as the Cold War against the Soviet Communists.
But, none of those enemies ever invaded America, but we cannot not say that we have not been invaded by the drug lords of Colombia, Mexico, or Afghanistan. In fact, they have be invading our nation for years and they are attacking our children.
One day some of the rougher kids in your neighborhood may try some pot and even offer it to our very own children and before you know it, these kids are slaves to the addiction of marijuana and search for a bigger high and may even try cocaine or heroin.
At that point, the War on Drugs has failed and if we give up on the War on Drugs, we lose.
Our only answer is stricter legal penalties against the drug user and maybe that will prevent your child from experimenting with drugs smuggled in by the Drug Lords.