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It has been my experience in life that when people answer a question with another question of dubious relevance, it is because they either don't have an answer or they know their answer is bankrupt.

It's been my experience in life that when people answer a question with a patronizing lecture that they haven't the faintest idea what they are talking about.

I'll answer yours though. Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness are unalienable rights which renders slavery a violation of that principle.

Really. Does that reasoning apply to the criminal, the insane, and the young, as well?

Drug use isn't an unalienable right

Actually, it is--by the light of the Supremes who have repeatedly struck down laws forbidding it under the 1st amendment. You have the right to think or feel anyway you want, by any means you want. It is possession or sale that is supposedly permitted by the Commerce Clause.

but understanding that liberty allows stupid choices, in my world, you could pursue those stupid choices in places where others agree with you.

As arguments go, this is shameless twaddle, not much removed from the "it's illegal, so it should be illegal argument." The fact is, I live here, I have a right to live here, and I have both a right and a duty to see to it that the laws I live under here make sense.

In your world, you would force me and others like me to live under the tyranny of a small minority who think that drug use is an unalienable not legislatable by the citizens of states. So who's the statist here?

So, if I get 51% of the electorate on my side, do you suddenly become the statist? You need to sit on the dictionary for a while until your word usage becomes a little more discriminating. Untrammeled democracy and statism go hand in hand. The restraints of our Federal Republic were precisely and only put there to avoid popular caprice becoming law. Freedom from fear of drug addicts is exactly such a caprice, akin to fear of witches. You want to put people in jail, I do not. That means we are not playing on an even playing field on this subject, the onus of demonstration is on you. Show us that tolerating drug addicts is the death of the Republic--obviously it is not, if booze is not, so obviously, you have no case.