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Another point to ponder, if I may: Is it not possible that, if the United States had preserved a properly construed government (whose first priority is to protecting the lives, liberty and property of her citizens against both properly-defined criminals at home and attack from abroad), rather than an improperly consecrated State (whose first priority is plundering, pillaging and looting her citizens on behalf of programs, plans, and schemes which lack either legitimacy or Constitutional buttress), we would never have been vulnerable to such an atrocity as was committed against us 11 September in the first place? That if we had never allowed our properly-construed, limited government to become an improperly construed and unlimited State - and thus to permit the proper and adequate defence of the United States against any real or prospective external threat to either fan out into meddling in the business of other nations or deteriorate at home in favour of the aforesaid illegitimate and unconstitutional schemes - no one could ever have even contemplated, never mind executed, such an atrocity with such deadly consequences?

All your points are thoughtful and well considered, but unfortunately, beside the point. My point, my main point and my only point, has been that to pretend that drug abuse in itself, regardless of legality, even at the level that it exists today, not withstanding the potential for more widespread use of an even more debilitating spectrum of drugs in the future, is not a threat to the nation and its citizens is worse than a flight from reality; it is a failure to uphold the number one constitutional responsibility our government has, ... the protection of the people of this country, from all enemies... foreign and domestic.

Is there any doubt that we are now under multi-lateral assault from well financed terrorists that are such a threat that we now must declare war on them? And that these terrorists include the FARC narco-terrorists of Columbia? They have connections with Castro, the IRA, and Ozama Bin Laden, and we have been funding their takeover of both Columbia and Venezuela with US drug proceeds. Even if the fantasy world of Libertarianism could dawn tomorrow, wouldn't the fact remain that the real, long term, and most devastating damage done to our country is not a matter of legality, but of the physical "drugging" of our future? Argue for or against this point, and we can have a real debate.