[Know your rights]

Controlling and regulating something does give the cops the privilege of pushing around the users doesn't it?

That's exactly the problem; anyone not violating the natural rights of others (nor posing clear and present danger of such violation) shouldn't be pushed around at all by anyone.

[muawiyah]

Well, whatever place "natural rights" has in this argument, I was responding to a statement by Pennboricua which was: "Way to go, they should do the same here in the USA, when prohibition was revoked, we did not see as far as I know excessive use of alcohol, it was regulated, licensed, controlled.."

Regulation, licensing and control necessarily entail the use, to one degree or the other, of LEO.

In the end recombinant DNA technology is going to take care of the problem of "natural herbs" by allowing for the displacement of the crops you have come to know by those which turn into alcohol if heated to 180 degrees (due to an enzyme produced by the modified genome).

We know how to handle alcohol if not MJ.