[ansel12]

Love Bill Bennett's morning show, but have to turn him off when he becomes as statist as any out-of-the-closet leftist when the issue of illegal drugs is raised.

Leftists are all pro legalizing drugs, that is one of the left's fundamental principals, like outlawing abortion is to conservatives.

[misterrob]

And they are against tobacco, booze, gambling and other personal vice like stuff too that the Constitution says are illegal....

Or did no one here get that addendum?

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Leftists are all pro legalizing drugs

They are just waiting until they have enough power that they don't need your support of the nanny state and New Deal Commerce clause anymore. Then you'll have drugs and socialism - until the socialists need more workers to keep the machines running and don't need the doper vote to stay in power - then you'll have drug-free puritanical communism and no vote like the old Soviet Union.

[bassmaner]

Leftists are all pro legalizing drugs, that is one of the left's fundamental principals

The first national drug prohibition law was passed 1914 and signed into law by Woodrow Wilson.

The first national marijuana prohibition law was passed in 1937 and signed into law by FDR.

Che Guevara constantly railed against drugs and alcohol because they inhibited 'revolutionary fervor'.

Now what side's 'fundamental principles' are being violated by the re-legalization of certain drugs?

[DBrow]

“Leftists are all pro legalizing drugs, “

I’m not sure of this. The left in Congress vote in all the tough dope laws. Nobody runs on a pro-dope platform that I know of (except the fringe parties, Peace&Freedom, www.maybelogic.com/gunsanddopeparty/ )