This conservative has observed that drug criminalization has done far more to enrich criminals, with all the ills that follow, than it has to reduce drug use - much like Prohibition of the drug alcohol did.
Prohibition of alcohol DID have a dampening effect on alcohol use, though.
Whatever one’s opinion on Prohibition is, you have to admit that it at least went through the proper constitutional process to be enacted, just as its repeal did.
“This conservative has observed that drug criminalization has done far more to enrich criminals, with all the ills that follow, than it has to reduce drug use - much like Prohibition of the drug alcohol did.”
Ah, the elephant in the room to which attention cannot be drawn.
No matter how you shout and jump up and down waving your arms, some people just refuse to see it.