http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/hobbes/leviathan-d.html#CHAPTERXIX
“But as men, for the attaining of peace and conservation of themselves thereby, have made an artificial man, which we call a Commonwealth; so also have they made artificial chains, called civil laws, which they themselves, by mutual covenants, have fastened at one end to the lips of that man, or assembly, to whom they have given the sovereign power, and at the other to their own ears. These bonds, in their own nature but weak, may nevertheless be made to hold, by the danger, though not by the difficulty of breaking them.”
“No matter how bad drugs are for you, prohibition is a violation of Liberty borne out of the same union of state and religion that brought about the prohibition of alcohol but without the same formality of Constitutional authority.”
Your assertion is incorrect.
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/hobbes/leviathan-d.html#CHAPTERXIX
“But as men, for the attaining...”
Yeah, uh, I guess you didn’t get the memo. Hobbes was wrong about pretty much everything.
As calex59 points out, Hobbes notwithstanding, the laws prohibiting or excessively taxing any substance that has a wide desirability are more dangerous than any such known substance and probably will always be. The only way that such laws can be made to change by a substantial minority is to flout them to the point they are unenforceable.