[dcwusmc]

"Well, dang, why don’t we just RElegalize drugs that will sure solve the problem!"

There, fixed it for you. Somehow the republic managed to stagger on with drugs legal right up to about 1913 or 1914, when different ethnic groups were targeted by government for demonization and control. Chinese were users of smokable opium, for example, so their intoxicant of choice was demonized by the oft repeated claim that Chinese men would lure white women into their opium dens, get them high on opium and then debauch them. The American Medical Association was adamant that outlawing drugs was NOT medically indicated and could cause serious problems of its own. But they were ignored by a Congress too interested in asserting more and more control over the lives of others... sort of what they are doing yet to this day. (And recall that the very Progressive Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, he who segregated the armed forces, which had been integrated to that point, was President and was both anxious to HAVE this control AND very intolerant of the "lesser" races.) Some justification for your war on some drugs, huh?

[SoConPubbie]

There, fixed it for you. Somehow the republic managed to stagger on with drugs legal right up to about 1913 or 1914, when different ethnic groups were targeted by government for demonization and control. Chinese were users of smokable opium, for example, so their intoxicant of choice was demonized by the oft repeated claim that Chinese men would lure white women into their opium dens, get them high on opium and then debauch them. The American Medical Association was adamant that outlawing drugs was NOT medically indicated and could cause serious problems of its own. But they were ignored by a Congress too interested in asserting more and more control over the lives of others... sort of what they are doing yet to this day. (And recall that the very Progressive Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, he who segregated the armed forces, which had been integrated to that point, was President and was both anxious to HAVE this control AND very intolerant of the "lesser" races.) Some justification for your war on some drugs, huh?

And I am so sure the moral structure of the culture is comparable between now and then, right?

But then pro-druggies really aren't real concerned about the state or morality of the culture, are they?

What is really funny, is that many libertarians believe they are closer to the founder's original vision than anyone else, but History shows a much different reality.

Morality was infused into the very legal structure of the states, from anti-sodomy laws, anti-divorce laws, laws establing state religions, blue laws. Our laws were riddled with morality and the culture, for the most part, frowned on whatever the church, in general, frowned upon.

Fast-forward today, where the strong moral and religious culture has been replaced with a me-first and even a me-only culture and you let loose drug legalization and you will come close to destroying this country.