You might get a dark chuckle out of this rant - that to end federal drug laws would be to “impose a Soviet-style mandate” on “every state, every county, every town, every neighborhood, every family, and every individual in the country”: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2889053/posts?page=31#31
A lot of people just don’t grok “republic”. I think the public schools are responsible for that, and that it’s calculated and intentional.