The Libertarians position is on all drugs, all advertising of drugs, and all marketing of drugs, including any new drugs that people can invent once it all becomes legal (that includes speed, crack, heroin), let's not pretend it is about pot.
The Libertarian position on drugs, current and future, is to stay out of it entirely, do whatever you want.
People with a brain cell won’t abuse drugs and they won’t take a new drug without a private, accredited organization reviewing the medication for side effects.
If you would like to set your life goal of reducing drug use, sell your stuff and set up a foundation to educate kids before they start. We’ve tried using government force now for 80 years. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
I look on it the same way as giving everyone a hand gun. A majority of the sane people will survive. Evolution in action. If there are no social service organizations to suck off of while a person is destroying their lives with drugs, we may be rid of them sooner.
Our current government has insulated people from the consequences of their actions. Getting pregnant before getting married, using drugs, using alcohol. We’re rewarding stupidity. I don’t have a problem with the churches rewarding stupidity or a private charity, but I sure as hell don’t like my government doing it with my tax dollars.
I saw some fat people at a tea party once, so all tea party members must be fat. Right?
The problem we all have is that pure anarchy does not work. And many libertarian’s view on drugs is pretty much “drug anarchy”. We attempt to strike a balance between pure anarchy and pure socialism and have done so since this country was founded. The problem is it is falling, almost as though off a cliff, into a strong socialistic/fascist system. It is the speed of this change that is causing a ripping apart of our nation.
When I was in high school in the early 70’s, people would hear about a potential “government control” and they would say “people would never stand for that!”. My response was that that is not correct. The correct statement is “This generation will never stand for it.” But the problem we have today is that several generations worth of changes are being foisted on a single generation. There could be blood.
It would be like going back to 1840 and, all at once:
1. abolish slavery.
2. create income tax.
3. Create propery taxes
4. Implement homosexual rights
5. give women the vote.
etc.
Also, not much of what is being proposed today is considered “good”. The last of the good “low hanging fruit” was identified decades ago. Now they are making changes that tend to do more harm than good. Sometimes LOTS more harm.