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Perhaps you should read the posts. A fair number of these posters are not concerned about drugs - they are concerned about freedom. Anyone who denies that the prosecution of drug cases has been the single greatest area of erosion of 4th Amendment rights just isn't keeping up with the law. It is not an uncommon view among legal experts that the erosion is so complete that there is now a "drug exception" to the 4th Amendment - that you have the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures EXCEPT in drug cases. This jurisprudence sets the stage for the complete eradication of the 4th. Everywhere you see the envelope being pushed - heat scans, random roadblocks, mandatory testing, warrantless searches, etc. - it is being pushed in the drug arena. Those who blindly support the WoD are complicit in the curtailment of freedom. And, last time I checked, freedom was supposed to be what this site is all about.

What I find humerous about these threads are conservatives that support a federal WOD. Nowhere in the constitution is the fed given the authority to wage a "war" on drugs. True conservatives should advocate letting the states administer their own version of a WOD instead of allowing the fed to do it.

As it stands today if a state wants to restrict the use of alchohol they can. Why not simply let them extend the laws to limit drugs and get the fed out of the drug business? Then if Cali wants to be the hippie state they can on their own dime and states like Utah can profit from drug use fines. I think this is the only compromise between the Republican and Liberatarian views, after all we are CONSERVATIVES first and party supporters second, right?

"Those who blindly support the WoD are complicit in the curtailment of freedom."

So crack down on those who are violating the 4th amendment, don't legalize drugs. The latter will not resolve the former. Those who violate the 4th admendment will still do it unless THAT problem is addressed.