and you don’t save souls by passing legislation.
You can legitimately try through government force to avoid some of the grosser evils. Shedding of blood is among them. The pattern the Lord has left for civil government is inherited from the instructions Noah got after the Flood, which left Noah as the father of all mankind to be.
The government does not need to be as strict as “the church” about this in order to do substantial good.
Our present government gives us the conundrum that it wants to be part of just about any action. Therefore not to be anti heroin would be to be pro heroin... you can bet Uncle Sam would love the taxes to be had. That’s almost as bad. Laissez-faire outside of the Noahide imperatives is not in his playbook any more.