Simply because I am against letting market forces move the illegal cocaine market does not mean I'm a liberal! Such a fraudulent premise is simply a red herring.
I never divested the narcotics user of their responsibility; but a Federal government does have a role in the life of it's nation. Part of that role is to protect the people - both from enemies within and without. I count the category of illegal drugs as such an enemy.
"Hate to break it to you but" you still assumed a fact not in evidence - namely, that I shifted blame off the users. Regardless of their status, the producers of coca have their own responsibility.
When they stop sending wholesalers and street-level dealers into neigborhoods giving people they can identify as weak and vulnerable a free, get-started "taste" to hook them, when those dealers stop terrorising the everyday folk in those neighborhoods and bringing in firearms, knives, brutal object lessons to caution people to "keep quiet or else" even as they carve up the streets into manageable territories to "market their product...Then maybe your argument will ring less hollow...maybe.
Until then, you can take ALL the claptrap - it's yours.
A.A.C.