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Equating legalization of drugs to totalitarianism tells conservatives all they need to know about liberaltarianism.

I equated your wanting to use stolen tax money to control the consensual behavior of others, not "legalization of drugs", to totalitarianism. Are you really so afraid, of people who use non-government-approved medications and guys who like Judy Garland, that you think we should all be slave labor for the government, in order to pay for stopping them from having what they consider a good time? The government and its confiscatory agencies can harm a family far more easily and permanently than the most obnoxious queer or druggie can.

It is a cancer that is destroying conservativism and our nation.

It? Are your conservative friends becoming gay or running off and becoming addicted to drugs? Are you afraid that you will too if there isn't a law to force you not to?

I thought conservatives were supposed to be all for smaller, less intrusive government, not crushing everybody under an oppressive tax burden in an attempt to enforce their personal behavioral preferences on those who don't share them.

You bet your rear end that I'm going to be rude when I see people trying to legalize behavior that will result in more innocent people killed and more people's lives destroyed by drugs.

Look around you. After thirty years of Nixon's War, the "drug problem" is as bad as ever. Worse, even. How can that be? We have all these laws?

Maybe it's time to try something different.

Conservatism was and should be defined by the ideas of our Founders. They got most of their ideas right. Based on your assumption, they were totalitarian. No, they knew certain sexual behavior was a crime. We had thousands of fewer laws, but sexual behavior that caused destruction was banned for most of the history of this nation.

In fact, I'm sure the next agenda on the liberaltarian list will be to attempt to 1) legalize prostitution nationwide and 2) lower the age of consent laws. That's coming if liberaltarianism and liberalism are defeated.

The law deters crime. The stronger the law, the more the deterrent. That's why drug use has dropped from 26 millon to 14 million in the past 20 years. Tougher drug laws is one of the reasons for the drug in the crime rate (since 70% of all criminals in prison were high on drugs when they committed their crimes).

Legalizing marijuana and relaxing the drug laws in the 1960s and 1970s resulted in more users, more innocent people being harmed and more crime. The excesses of the WOD were a result of the out-of-control drug use and weak laws given to us by the free-love, free-drug hippie generation.