[pissant]

I can’t think of a bigger crock of sh*t than to label opposition to legalizing drugs as progressivism.

[OneWingedShark]

I can.
Demonizing/criticizing anyone who questions the effectiveness or the legitimacy of drug laws.

Let me give you a hypothetical example:
You are a young high-school teacher and one day, as you’re leaving, you find in the hallway you find a small bag of drugs that someone dropped.
Trying to be responsible you pick it up and turn it in to the police, who write a report and let you go.
A week or so after this incident you are arrested, on drug possession charges.
The drugs turned out to be heroin and the mere possession thereof is a felony-offense.

I hope that you didn’t enjoy voting or owning firearms.

[Mariner]

"I can’t think of a bigger crock of sh*t than to label opposition to legalizing drugs as progressivism."

You have mischaracterized the author's position.

He equates opposition to legalizing MARIJUANA to STATISM, which it clearly is. And, socons share that common propensity with lefties...just on different issues.

[TigersEye]

I can’t think of a bigger crock of sh*t than to label opposition to legalizing drugs as progressivism.

You're right. It's statism.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

I can’t think of a bigger crock of sh*t than to label opposition to legalizing drugs as progressivism.

Drug criminalization at the federal level is based on the New Deal interpretation of the Commerce Clause, the basis of most other Progressive regulation. After the failure of alcohol Prohibition, it has been the sop of the Left to buy off people like you on the "Right" and make you a fellow traveller in their corruption of the Constitution. You can still ban drugs at the state level and from abroad, but attempts to do that with alcohol 1900-1919 failed completely because we were a free people, right or wrong.

So, yes, you are a Progressive, Statist, Leftist, useful idiot, fellow traveller in the overall destruction of the United States. I hope you think keeping a few, very few who have a mind to, of your neighbors from having a toke was worth it.

[listenhillary]

Progressivism is not Statism.