[dirtboy]

While I do not support drug use I too believe that the war on drugs (Especially Marijuana) is ruinous to our liberties in a wider sense. I believe it should be up to the states as was intended by our constitutional republic.

Ya beat me to it by one post, I said something very similar to tpaine in post #104. I think conservatives and libertarians should work together to turn a lot of these issues back to the states, to restore federalism and the 10th Amendment. That is where I see we have the strongest common ground. From there, the debate on this matter, between conservatives and libertarians, can be much more robust, and through the debate different states can try different approaches, and we can see which approaches have merit and which ones won't work. But we won't get that now with the feds involved. The two guarantees we can get from the feds on any action that they take is that it will be a failure, and the reaction of the feds to the failure will be to do more of what is failing...

[Khepera]

You got that right mister!

[tpaine]

While I do not support drug use I too believe that the war on drugs (Especially Marijuana) is ruinous to our liberties in a wider sense. I believe it should be up to the states as was intended by our constitutional republic. -khepera

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Ya beat me to it by one post, I said something very similar to tpaine in post #104. I think conservatives and libertarians should work together to turn a lot of these issues back to the states, to restore federalism and the 10th Amendment.
That is where I see we have the strongest common ground.
From there, the debate on this matter, between conservatives and libertarians, can be much more robust, and through the debate different states can try different approaches, and we can see which approaches have merit and which ones won't work.

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Indeed, that the Tenth must be enforced IS common ground.

The problem then evolves to defining this part of the 10th, -- what are the constitutional 'powers --- prohibited by it to the states'?
To me, the 14th emumerated some of these prohibited powers, namely those of life, liberty, and propery.
- And made it clear that while states can make law to 'regulate' public acts using due process, they can not prohibit or infringe upon private victimless acts, - IE - 'sins'.