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You've nailed it with your statement regarding "statist(s)."

For the record: I've never smoked marijuana, though I twice had it in brownies, once knowingly and once unknowingly. Years ago I did take amphetamines (Candy of the Gods), and have reaped the results: High blood pressure and a mild stroke due to same. Therefore, I know that unprescribed drug use is destructive to the individual just as the War on Drugs is destructive to the nation.

The bottom line, though, can be found by answering the following question with a simple "yes" or "no": In an allegedly free country should an individual be allowed to ingest what he or she desires as long as he or she is not in any manner harming another individual? Sociology be damned, it really comes down to a matter of level of personal freedom Americans are allowed, or may be expected, to enjoy.