Note how ardently John Walters campaigned against the legalization initiatives. One could easily conclude that, without his participation, the margins would have been smaller, or that one or more initiatives might have passed.
There's no such thing as a public-policy debate that's over for good and for all, anyway. Once upon a time, virtually anyone would have told you that the drive to legalize abortion would never get to first base in America; everyone knew it was just plain wrong.
If the Drug War continues to be the failure it's been to this point -- if it has no retardant effect on drug usage and continues to swell the coffers of criminals and their organizations, while encroaching ever more deeply on the liberty and property rights of ordinary, peaceable Americans -- we'll see more such initiatives proposed, in still more states, and they'll come closer to passing.
Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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Whined the losers.