Here's the comment I originally replied to:
As Madison said, "If men were angels, we wouldn't need government." Our government's anti-drug laws have reflected the values most Americans hold to.
How did you manage to exclude the federal government from "our government's"? Unless we're all living in the same state, that's the only one that's arguably "ours".
All I can say is that you understand where those drug laws come from to be something that I did not imply.