I don’t think any of us are advocating for drug usage. We’re advocating to end a war on the Bill of Rights. The simple fact is the WOD has shredded basic liberty in this country. Thanks to the WOD if you have a coffee maker in your house and allergy medicine you have a drug lab. Sounds crazy right, but all you need to be a drug lab is a beaker, a heat source, filters, and a starter. Basic drip coffee maker and some sudafed. That’s just plain wrong, that’s not how things should work in a free country.
Add no knock raids, often to the wrong address. Militarized police. “Probably cause”. The Omni law. The simple fact of the matter is that at this point in American history the WOD is much more of a threat than drugs ever could be. Which isn’t saying drugs are good, or people should do them. It’s saying that unrestricted federal power is BAD, and the WOD (and now WOT) has been a massive lever for dramatically increasing federal power.
I’m late to the thread, but I just want to point out it’s possible to oppose the federal government’s War on Drugs AND the legalization of drugs at the same time. Like some of the other posters, I believe federalism is the best way to handle this issue as well as many others.
Actually, I think federalism is the only chance we have of saving America. The country may survive in name only without a return to federalism, but it sure won’t be the America you or I grew up in (there’s already far too little of that left already!). It will be just one more country where the few oppress the many, just like nearly every other country in the world and throughout history.