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It worked in one of my favorite countries for over 150 years. Their citizens had a right to defend themselves against attackers, using almost any guns they wanted (heck, you could even order machine guns through the mail) and crime was low. There was no 'social safety net', so if people didn't work, they didn't survive. So they worked. And if they chose to do drugs and couldn't support themselves, they lived in squalor and felt the results of their own actions. Government wasn't there to give them a hand out. If they needed help, it was up to private citizens and organizations to help them.

It was the united states. It stopped working when people thought it was their business to keep other people from making bad choices with their life. It turned us from a nation of free, independent individuals into a nanny state, where the government has a duty to keep you from doing things that are bad for yourself but don't harm anyone else. And of course, to do that, they now have the right to do no-knock warrants on you or seize your entire farm if they find someone else has been growing pot on it without your knowledge. Plus when other people's actions became our responsiblity, it was our responsibility to take care of them financially as well.

So what system would you rather live under?

The one where you had true property rights, true constitutional protections, your money wasn't taken away from you to pay for someone else's stupidity, you could protect yourself how you wanted, and if someone somewhere else wanted to harm themselves by getting high, it wasn't the government's business as long as they didn't harm anyone?

Or the system we have now that costs billions and billions of dollars, constantly nibbles our rights away, and doesn't work at all and shows no sign of ever working?