You know of someone who uses drugs but not enough to be impaired or high?And what exactly is wrong with being impaired or high? Actually, let me rephrase: what is wrong with being impaired or high that justifies spending billions of dollars, foregoing additional billions in tax revenue, trampling on civil liberties, and directly leading to thousands of deaths in order to achieve a marginal reduction in impairment and/or highness?
I'm just going to point out that the 'title' of this thread brings up maybe the most important issue we currently face.
The 'media' has redefined 'conservative'. Perhaps we now need two phrases --
- Politically Conservative: that is, smaller, less intrusive govt. "Individual solutions to problems", not "collective" ones.
- Socially Conservative: It would be wiser for a 'social' conservative to fill in this def, as I am not one. But from my limited point of view, a 'social' conservative is one who wants to use 'collective', govt solutions to individual problems.
And most interestingly of all, it doesn't appear to be possible to be both, "politically conservative" and "socially conservative".