Where has the hysterical drug “war” gotten except worse and worse gangs and drugs? Things which were hardly ever seen when it was a low key thing that churches and polite society addressed in extra-governmental fashion?
And you have not explained why it’s Santorum’s perceived role to pontificate about it, unless he’s trying to make government the answer. Nor why the Tea Party would be expected to swallow this any more than they swallow Mitt’s brew.
“Where has the hysterical drug “war” gotten except worse and worse gangs and drugs?”
Show me where the constitution says you have the right to smoke pot. You said that it’s exactly the same as the 2nd Amendment. Show me please.
“Things which were hardly ever seen when it was a low key thing that churches and polite society addressed in extra-governmental fashion?”
Again, the community has always had the right to regulate the buying and selling of alcohol, even today. So if you are arguing that there exists a right - no, there is no such right and has never existed the right to drink and smoke wherever you want when you want.
Now, if you are talking about the right to do so on your own property, that is one thing. But there have always been laws regulating the buying and selling, and consumption of alcohol.
“And you have not explained why it’s Santorum’s perceived role to pontificate”
Santorum is explaining why his position is superior to the Paulbot position.