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Calm down. I don't exercise vigilante justice nor do I wear Jackboots. Sorry to blow your little fantasy about my opposition to legalized drugs. But I do walk down the street in my neighborhood and where I work. I am confronted on a daily basis by dopers and others in their own little self centered world. Some are violently aggressive and others are just public charges. Straw dog indeed. And no I don't feel that I should have to move or change my job to allow for someone else's concept of freedom.

Maybe in your peaceful neighborhood and work location all of the people are Stepford citizens. But where's my right to a peaceful existence, while I mind my own damn business? I really don't give a damn what you or anyone else does to themselves until I have to make personal adjustments to maintain a peaceful life. But I guess I just have to put with the crap because your concept of freedom is more important than mine. That's some concept of equal protection under the law. Where do you get the authority to sanction such interference with MY freedom? Your ideas are fine if everyone acts as you probably would, but that isn't the reality I see on a daily basis.

Your "right" to a peaceful existence? And just what right would that be? To be left alone in your own house to live as you and yours see fit? That is the only right you have that comes even CLOSE to a right to a peaceful existence. If you mean that you have a "right" to suppress the otherwise peaceful behaviors of others to ensure your tranquility, I do hate to disillusion you, but it ain't happening. There IS no such right, anymore than there is a "right" to murder the unborn or the helpless or a "right" to not be offended by the words or gestures of others...

But I guess you think that your "peace" is more important than a Constitutionally-limited government dedicated to protecting the equal rights of ALL its citizens, even the unpopular ones. Controlling the otherwise peaceable activities of others to ensure that you remain unoffended and pristine is OK by you, as long as YOU are the controllER and not the controllEE, right?

But where's my right to a peaceful existence, while I mind my own damn business?
San Diego, where you purport to live, is a pretty safe town overall. However, it's called "the right to bear arms". Within that little statement is all of the rights you need to live a peaceful existence.
Of course, you may want to move out of CA to experience that right more fully.
I really don't give a damn what you or anyone else does to themselves until I have to make personal adjustments to maintain a peaceful life.
Have you ever been mugged? Do you make personal adjustments to keep this from happening?

Where do you get the authority to sanction such interference with MY freedom?
Perhaps from the same place that you presume to get the sanctioned authority to interfere with the freedom of others?

Also I notice you did not respond to my question. Is that because you have no answer for it? I suspect so.

If YOU, as an individual, do NOT have the legitimate authority to do your neighbor the way FedGov does, and if this Constitutional Republic rests on the individual sovereignty of We, the People, with government performing its LIMITED functions in our names and on our behalf, AS THE FOUNDERS INTENDED, just exactly WHERE does the legitimate authority for a war on some drugs or a war on firearms or a war on ANYTHING come from???? If you can't give what is not yours to give and I cannot give what is not MINE to give, where DO they get the authority they exercise? Or have we, the individual PEOPLE, lost our sovereignty and become SUBJECTS, to be RULED by government? Your answer will be enlightening. Your NON-answer will be equally enlightening... but won't really reflect well on you...

But I do walk down the street in my neighborhood and where I work. I am confronted on a daily basis by dopers and others in their own little self centered world. Some are violently aggressive and others are just public charges.

How you do you know these “dopers” you pass on the street are really “dopers” and how do you know these “dopers” are not alcoholics? You don’t. In your previous statement you have implied you think you can “read minds” like when you resorted to ad hominem attacks on libertarians claiming you personally knew what each and every libertarian actually thinks. You are clearly a busybody who thinks they can read minds.

If these “dopers” are violently aggressive, that is a crime – and there is no need for you to pretend you can read their minds or the blood chemistry to determine what substances they may or may not have taken.

You sound like a run-of-the-mill bigot that assumes all people you don’t like on the street are “dopers”

Maybe in your peaceful neighborhood and work location all of the people are Stepford citizens.

Yep, you are sounding like a run-of-the-mill bigot – either everybody is a “doper” or they are a “Stepford citizen” robot. He’s the rub – it is none of your fricken business.

But I guess I just have to put with the crap because your concept of freedom is more important than mine.

Get a clue – actions that violate your rights are already against the law.

That's some concept of equal protection under the law. Where do you get the authority to sanction such interference with MY freedom?

There are laws against people that violate other people’s rights so there is no need for you to pretend you can read minds or for you to stick your nose in other people’s underwear drawer to see what they are “really” up to.