No, I want LESS government control over most areas of life. I want sensible government control over behaviors that casue a grave threat to innocent people, and have no benefit to the individuals practicing them.
Do you think drunk driving should be legal? After all, not all drunk drivers cause accidents. We cannot make the judgement that this behavior creates too great a danger to innocent people, can we?
70+ years of "drug war". Trillions spent. Countless innocent, as well as guilty, lives lost.
And yet... We still have, as a percentage, about the same number of people taking a self destructive path. We can't even keep drugs out of our prisons.
And yet, any talk of finding an alternative, decriminalizing softer drugs, revamping the criminal code to punish actual harm done, etc... all end up in the same idiotic strawman mouthbreathing platitudes by those convinced that if we dared loosen the laws it'd be Armageddon in the playgrounds from Coast to Coast.
Give it a rest. That line of reasoning didn't even ring true in 1933.