I’ve always said the order of events is vital:
1) End government charity. Make all people responsible. If you don’t work, you don’t eat. If you make bad choices, you suffer. If you screw up your life, perhaps a church will help you, but “society” owes you nothing.
Now you’re ready for Step 2.
2) Go ahead and legalize pot or whatever else you consider a good idea.
If you reverse the order of these steps (as the US has largely done) then you get a lot of people who have messed up their lives and who expect “society” to take care of them.
My big beef with Libertarians is that they want LIMITED government (which is good) and they want legalized drugs. And they push for the drugs first, which TOTALLY works against the concept that government charity should be reduced. Legal drugs magnifies the problem and drives us toward Big Government.
You have to be stoned not to see this.
Very good point ClearCase_Guy, I had not thought of it like that!