Do you care about the facts of Liberty at all?
If we don’t have legal dope we’ll lose our freedoms and personal property....HAHAHAHHAHAH!
It has already happened to a large degree. And you want to laugh it off. The Drug War has been a huge factor in the destruction of freedoms and personal property, and one must be willfully blind to overlook that fact.
Those who embrace imprisoning their fellow citizen for merely possessing the wrong plant, medicine, or liquid spirits, can hardly be called conservative.
Why? Because they support the same arbitrary notions of law and control which the most rabid authoritarian Marxists do. The same arguments are used regarding gun violence, smoking, and many other characteristics which exist in a free society.
It's as if the authoritarian Left and the authoritarian Right would have the rest of us choose between whose version of Tyranny should prevail.
"What about the children?" and "We must save the People from themselves!" and all such garbage are ever the refuge of the narrow-minded and despotic. The hysterical imposition of such oppressive nanny-state law can only logically lead (and, indeed, has led) to the obliteration of the Fourth Amendment, enrichment of organized crime organizations, and other such abominations.
Deride "potheads" and their "enablers" all you want, but the totalitarian impulses of the Prohibitionist mind, and its unbelievably shallow and naive awareness of true Liberty, are truly a marvel to behold.
I, for one, would rather tolerate the admittedly challenging consequences of decriminalization, than to continue traveling the autocratic road down which Prohibitionists have been leading the nation for the last century or more.
But the American People are up to such a challenge, because the alternative is a prison nation populated by inmates who have committed no crime other than the phony one of possessing this or that tool or substance in violation of the edicts of a Tyrannical government.
True freedom (not some pale imitation of it) carries with it many challenges for civil society to address.
But taking draconian shortcuts will never be the answer.
Did it ever occur to you that NOT legalizing dope is NOT “draconian”?
Numbing the minds and the ambitions of an increasingly larger segment of our youth will only make true Fascist control that much easier to impose.
So, you can either fight or light up, but you’ll never do both.