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I don't recall mention of legalizing drugs as a part of the conservative values for which FR was founded, yet those types seem to be the ones who hijack so many of these threads.

You could always ask the founder of this website about it.

"There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that authorizes the federal government to wage war against the citizens of the United States, no matter how well-meaning the intent. The Bill of Rights means just as much today, as it did on the day it was written. And its protections are just as valid and just as important to freedom today, as they were to our Founders two hundred years ago. The danger of the drug war is that it erodes away those rights. Once the fourth amendment is meaningless, it's just that much easier to erode away the first and then the second, etc. Soon we'll have no rights at all. "

Jim Robinson, 5/9/01

source: Personal attacks, petty (and not so petty) bickering, flame wars, feuding, etc.

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[Fawnn]

I sit here corrected. The "war on drugs" obviously has never been one of "my" issues, so I guess I missed that part. (I wish I had the recall to be able to quote those things that did and do impress me about the FR philosophy. No time at present to dig through the archives.)

However, having said that, opposing a war on drugs and advocating liberal drug usage are two different matters, imo. ... Few users are rotting in prison for using; if they're in prison -- rotting or otherwise, it's because of crimes in addition to or because of that drug use. Narcotics distort perceptions.