Why do you suggest that libertarians necessarily use illegal drugs? The only mind-altering drug that I use is caffeine, and for that I even admit that I grind my own coffee beans.
Do you drink alcohol?
I say "particularly their own use" because the majority of self-professed Libertarians that I'm familiar with ARE recreational drug users. And the WOD is their NUMBER ONE complaint; not high taxes, not the War in Iraq, but the rising price and shrinking availability of their drug of choice.
Perhaps I have painted with a broiad brush, and if I did, I apologize.
As for drinking, it's legal.
That is what really disturbs me about these Drug Warrior Nazis. They heard that an LP plank calls for an end to the ineffective and hypocritical WOD and immediately assume that the LP is only pot smokers and junkies.
I supported the LP and regularly attended meetings until the War Against Islamic Fascism caused an LP Schism. There is still a disagreement over what constitutes an "initial initiation of force" in relation to a foreign power. In my opinion, the WTC was the initiation of force that warrants any and every response against Islamic Terror or those that embrace and hide behind it.
I never saw one person at any local meetings that appeared to have even used drugs at all. Even at the State LP Convention, I only saw a few persons out of hundreds that appeared to be one trick ponies for drug use. I suspect all of the actual Druggies attend N.O.R.M.L. meetings instead of wasting their time with Libertarians that never achieve their goals anyway.
The libertarian issue with the WOD is concerned with Federal programs that are not allowed by "The Constitution" and "Bill of Rights." I feel compelled to remind everyone how far we have strayed from the Goldwater Republican ideal.
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests", I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
-Barry Goldwater
I feel that I stand on the shoulders of Giants when I say that the WOD has not stopped drug use and must be abandoned for something that will certainly be better that what we currently have.