The public is getting wise to the inflated cost of upper education that leaves students and/or parents in debt for 25 years after graduation. When will the public wise up to the huge money grab for a futile "drug war" that has put and is still costing billions in tax dollars trying eradicate addictions? Seriously? Does anyone seriously believe that the "law" can rid society of addictions? From the beginning of time, man has used substances to get "high". Grapes, plants/herbs, corn...anything and everything that can be distilled, dried, or dug out of the ground to get "high".
In Tennessee, the drug czars of the legal system has made it next to impossible for physicians to prescribe pain pills, and have successfully knocked people with chronic pain to be switched to ineffective anti-epileptics and anti-depressants for their pain and told it's those pills or you can do yoga, accupuncture or "mindful" meditation to ameliorate their pain from post polio syndrome, fractured backs (osteoporosis, etc), severe injuries due to combat, etc. Congratulations to the law makers and the LE. Since, they have eradicated legal, qualified prescriptions for effective pain relief, we now have a tsunami of deaths from heroin. True, we had a few people die from oxy, etc., before the crackdown (probably more died from car accidents, heart attacks, cancer, acetaminophen poisoning, etc than oxy overdoses). Now, however, OD have doubled or tripled from fentanyl and heroin (black mkt).
If we got rid of pot, everything will be great. If we got rid of Quaaludes, everything will be great. If we got rid of cocaine, everything will be great...yada, yada, yada. What a cash cow for law enforcement. There's always a catastrophe to exploit and make money off of to enrich the police departments and drug rehabs. I'd just as soon take a hundred dollar bill and light a match to it. Futility.
Conservatives don't - they believe in limited government.