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Why not rethink prescription drug laws and speeding laws while we are at it?

That's a real good idea.

Frankly, since the government started screwing around with my drug of choice, I've become convinced all the drug laws are a cover for statist tyranny.

I can't get sinutab without a friggin cavity search, but strangely the fact we took over the country that produces most of the heroin in the world doesn't seem to be connected to the war on drugs.

:Why is that?

Ping. This should really be an Algore hypocrisy ping, but since I don't know of one on FR that doesn't relate to Global Warning...tag you're it.

"What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will. The market gives people what the people want instead of what other people think they ought to want. At the bottom of many criticisms of the market economy is really lack of belief in freedom itself. The essence of political freedom is the absence of coercion of one man by his fellow men. The fundamental danger to political freedom is the concentration of power. The existence of a large measure of power in the hands of a relatively few individuals enables them to use it to coerce their fellow men. Preservation of freedom requires either the elimination of power where that is possible, or its dispersal where it cannot be eliminated. It essentially requires a system of checks and balances, like that explicitly incorporated in our Constitution..."

-- Milton Friedman, The New Liberal's Creed: Individual Freedom, Preserving Dissent Are Ultimate Goals," May 18, 1961

I can't get sinutab without a friggin cavity search, but strangely the fact we took over the country that produces most of the heroin in the world doesn't seem to be connected to the war on drugs.

No freaking doubt. There is no connection with most people. They just don't understand the fact that nothing the government has done regarding drug prohibition has actually achieved the stated aims of decreasing their prevalence. When I was a kid, it was easier to buy pot than beer.

The WOD is a sham, and it has been from the very beginning. It is merely a convienient tool to subvert the constitution and our basic rights.