These drugs are “designed” for optimal effect. Either through selection by humans or by design by humans.
A dependency is created that is very difficult, if not impossible, to resist for some.
When a person is exposed, willpower and choice is gone. To use a cliche, it is the drugs choosing and not the person.
Choice is the cornerstone of Libertarian beliefs. How can a person make a “choice” when all free will is gone.
No they don't have a choice. They are a prisoner.
All the government is going to do is replace a prison you can leave if you have the will to do so with one you can't.
So now you're resorting to anthropomorphism to make a logical point? How utterly shameless.
Drugs are inanimate objects, wholly incapable of exercising free will.
People make choices. Those who don't own up to their own failings, and blame, instead, inanimate objects, are cowards. Weaklings. And restricting the freedom of adults because of those who cannot own up to their failings is hardly in keeping with conservative ideology.
How positively shameful that an issue like marijuana decriminalization can turn supposed conservatives into liberals. Perhaps those so swayed were never conservative in the first place? That's my bet.