In the first instance, most sensible Americans are opposed to the decriminalization of drugs that are currently illegal.
Your opinion is noted, and discarded.
"The subject is the platform, not the popularity of the party or their electoral record.
In the first instance, most sensible Americans are opposed to the decriminalization of drugs that are currently illegal.
Your opinion is noted, and discarded."
They are one and the same. Libertarians who seek to advance ideas and concepts join CATO, REASON or some other purveyor of ideas. A political party, by definition, is about gaining votes from the electorate. This is evidenced by the areas of the platform that are intentionally ambiguous, as has been noted by other posters. The LP (correctly) chooses to not take a position on abortion, which is divisive to their coalition of people who lean libertarian but are not "purist" libertarian. The same is true in other areas.
Like me, most libertarians I know would, if in a state legislature, horse trade in a heartbeat the theoretical libertarian position on mind altering drugs, pornography, prostitution, etc in exchange for removal of gun control laws and for cutting taxes, spending and the overregulation of our economic lives.
And "consenual adult activity" applies to a lot more than sex. True libertarians apply it much more to economic activity. If I agree to exchange my labor or product for the other adult's money or other thing of value, it is none of the government's business if the value placed on that exchange is the "prevailing rate" for that exchange. We are consenting adults.