[JustSayNoToNannies]

Drug legalization is NOT a conservative idea.

Of course it is - just like opposition to alcohol Prohibition was a conservative idea. Drug criminalization, like Prohibition before it, is "progressive" social engineering that has succeeded only in enriching criminals.

[SoldierDad]

I think you’d best do some research. You’ll find that those who want to legalize drugs are those with libertarian or liberal ideology, not conservative ideology. Legalizing drugs is NOT a conservative position, period.

[presidio9]

Of course it is - just like opposition to alcohol Prohibition was a conservative idea. Drug criminalization, like Prohibition before it, is "progressive" social engineering that has succeeded only in enriching criminals.

Prohibition is irrelevant to your argument, because alcohol and pot are not the same thing, and never will be. For example, while plenty of people enjoy a glass or two of wine with a meal, the only reason anybody ever smoked pot was to get stoned. Period.

[Ohioan]

You are completely right that Prohibition came from the Left. As an Oberlin graduate, who spent many hours studying the connection of the school with the Left in American history, I will confirm that. The Anti-saloon League was founded in the Oberlin College Library in the 1890s--I think 1896, but I might be a year off.

I am not turning against my Alma Mater, I actually--as a Conservative in High School--decided to go there to prepare for a lifetime battle against what the Left has been trying to do to America for almost two centuries--tragically with accelerating success. So, in a perhaps tangential way, I benefited greatly from my four years there.

William Flax