Hate to say it, but if by "conservative" we mean the sense of "preserving the individual liberties that we have traditionally had under our Constitution," then stumping for federal drug laws is decidedly not conservative.
It's too bad that we have a whole troop full of statist FReepers who are more concerned about their personal dislike for drugs and using the power of the state to enforce it than they are Art. II, Sect. 8 and the 4th, 9th, and 10th amendments.
And it's too bad that they pollute a site that defines itself as "pro-Constitution" with their bilge.
I was a ‘drug warrior’ because I really believed that the Law would see the difference between a middle-aged woman with a broken spine and a teenaged tweeker in an alley.
I was wrong.
The answer to the WOD is to put everyone who needs/wants narcotics in the same boat. The Law doesn’t care.
And they crack down on the doctors so that THEY do not care.
My mistake was believing that there was such a thing as ‘common sense’ left in the world. My last pain doctor bragged about how he tortured 80 year old women with crippling arthritis and treated them like criminals and made them take a urine test every four weeks.
When you put a blanket bureaucracy in place you get... a bureaucracy. That paper room doesn’t care about you. It has no common sense. It only exists to check a block.