[MadIvan]

The drug laws were imposed to give the booze police something to do (other than getting real jobs) after prohibition ended.

Your short, glib response lacks facts, history and anything besides your own vitriol. What is it with you, are you upset that you don't have the right to order to some smack through the post?

Ivan

[sendtoscott]

What is it with you, are you upset that you don't have the right to order to some smack through the post?

I'm upset that we can lose our constitutional rights (asset forfeiture, no-knock raids, etc) because someone has decided others' actions are "bad enough". Somebody else ordering smack (I don't touch the stuff, even if you choose not to believe that) does not mean their basic human right to be left alone is forfeit.

[Virginia-American]

The drug laws were imposed to give the booze police something to do (other than getting real jobs) after prohibition ended.

Your short, glib response lacks facts, history and anything besides your own vitriol.

It was part of the rationalization behind the Marijuana Tax Act (1937) and also the NFA (1934, the act that put the F in ATF), but not of the Harrison (anti-coke and opiate) act from the 1920's ( or late teens). Actually, plain old D*m*cr*t party racism was also very important, can't have those [darker-skinned people] looking at white women the wrong way. As I said above, just another shameful, big-governmant legacy of the Progressives and New Dealers.