Nope. I’m also a paleo-neo-con :-)
I believe the federal government has a role in the world.
It just doesn’t have a role in our bloodstreams. Neither did the Founding Fathers.
The crusades against drugs and prostitution began in the 1880s after Reconstruction and the churches looked for other causes besides anti-slavery. They got nowhere because they did not have the numbers and government was not empowered to do what they wanted. But around 1912, the Progressives who wanted but also lacked the numbers to take “reform” and regulation beyond the Constitution united with the churches and combined their issues to push through Prohibition and later the New Deal that turned the Constitution on its head. Both sides had a desire and goal of controlling those who did not agree and together they have been a majority ever since. Splitting them is essential to restoring Liberty. Where there is liberty, people do wrong. But you need to learn that where it is to themselves it is not government’s business. Being unproductive is not the government’s business. But now you have the left using government power to promote it and the right using government power to discourage it and both using a lot of resources accomplishing nothing.
And if drug and alcohol use never effected anyone but the user it would be wonderful. Just like the speeder or the robber or any other criminal, their actions impinge on other peoples rights and liberty.....