[HoustonCurmudgeon]

What? You don't agree that we should abolish the FBI, Border Patrol, BATF, Secret Service, and US Marshalls?

Well I could live without the BATF!

[weegee]

I've tried to explain to the libertarians that under our present system, legalizing drugs would just move the DEA under the BATF. So much for "legalize it and then tax the hell out of it". Also, the power to tax is the power to destroy.

On another thread (related to Rush's rehab) someone posted a monologue from Rush where he said that to truly fight the War on Drugs, it should be legalized and then legislated and litigated like tobacco is. A few liablity lawsuits at recreational drug manufacturers would take billions out of the producers hands.