[Ken H]

I wish FR would take out its next poll on whether to allow the private sector to regulate at least some of the less dangerous drugs, like marijuana.

What should our national policy be toward currently illicit drugs?

a. Keep them all illegal at the federal level.

b. Regulate them all in a manner similar to how alcohol is currently regulated.

c. Regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol. Keep all others illegal.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

What should our national policy be toward currently illicit drugs?

Make them legal and tax them at 100%... perfectly Constitutional...

[robertpaulsen]

Prior to Prohibition, each state made their own alcohol decision, identical to your (b) and (c). About half the states prohibited alcohol in one form or another.

"Dry" states, however, found that alcohol was being shipped in from "wet" states. They petitioned the federal government for help and Congress passed the Webb-Kenyon Act, forbidding this activity. It wasn't effective, and Prohibition soon followed.

What makes you think it would be any different with drugs? Worse, since drugs are far easier to smuggle across state lines.