[starlifter]

The vast majority of the damage from drugs comes from the government arbitrarily making them illegal. On top of that, there are so many government employees and contractors nursing on the illegal drug tit who will look out only for their own self interest, fighting tooth and nail against any relaxation of drug laws.

[tacticalogic]

The vast majority of the damage from drugs comes from the government arbitrarily making them illegal. On top of that, there are so many government employees and contractors nursing on the illegal drug tit who will look out only for their own self interest, fighting tooth and nail against any relaxation of drug laws.

You'll have the potential for that with any government regulation. The problem with federal regulation is that the regulators are too far removed from the things they're regulating and the people those regulations affect to be be held accountable, or even identifiable.