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Some so-called conservatives have a need to control others’ behavior for their “own good” and/or the “common good”.

Some so-called conservatives are nothing of the kind. And Carry Nation was no conservative. She was a busybody liberal determined to run the lives of others.

You are 100% correct. I've never liked this William Bennett and I like him even less the more he speaks out on this subject.

The drug war is a colossal failure and was doomed to fail much in the same way as Prohibition was doomed to fail. The difference is that we were smart enough after 13 years to put an end to prohibition. We aren't so smart today.

I'm persuaded by my opinion that drug use would be no greater with legalization than what it is today. I would use drugs just as I very don't use alcohol very often. I'm nearly a teetotaler. And yet there is alcohol all around me all the time. I simply don't hardly ever use it.

So it would be with Drugs. The people who are gonna use drugs are gonna get them anyway, usually at very high prices and that brings crime along with it. Legalize drugs and we will save trillions.

I'm tired of the likes of Bennett. People like him are fools and they have learned nothing from Prohibition. William F. Buckley, Milton Friedman, George Schultz and a lot of other true conservatives have believed this for a long time.

The difference is that we were smart enough after 13 years to put an end to prohibition. We aren't so smart today.

No, the difference was thousands of years of alcohol use and it being a thorough part of daily life and human commerce and interaction and relationships in western Civilization, versus, the recent introduction of dope to our young.

Prohibition is an entirely different subject than drug laws.

Bill Bennett Explains Why Freedom Is Slavery

http://reason.com/blog/2011/07/01/bill-bennett-explains-why-free

The question is: “Whose freedom?” The drug dealers’, sure—the drug consumers [sic], no.

As any parent with a child addicted to drugs will explain, as any visit to a drug rehab center will convey, those caught in the web of addiction are anything but free.