[wideawake]

Good news.

I find it fascinating that the self-appointed guardians of free will, the so-called libertarians, are so strongly in favor of using substances that erase free will and enslave people.

Luckily, sanity prevailed.

[WyldKard]

I find it fascinating that the self-appointed guardians of free will, the so-called libertarians, are so strongly in favor of using substances that erase free will and enslave people.

No one here that I know of actively advocates full on drug usage, although I suppose people like you need to say that in order to pump up your strawman arguments. What we ARE saying is that the Federal Government doesn't have the authority to run a War on Drugs, and that the current War on Drugs is a socialist, burecratic nightmare that shreds the Constitution, fosters corruption in law enforcement, bloats the government, and creates more crime and problems than it attempts to solve. Many people who don't approve of drug usage are against the War on Drugs. Including the owner of Free Republic itself.

When you accuse drugs of "erasing free will", you blame objects, instead of the people using them. What are you going to tell us next, that guns kill children? That fatty food is all to blame for making children obese? Why do you insist on giving people excuses for their own weak will and lack of self-control? That is a classic Socialist tactic.

Luckily, sanity prevailed. Wasn't sanity. Someone screwed up when they wrote the proposal, and it was rejected on a legal technicality, nothing more.