[FastCoyote]

I debate this subject often and find most Conservatives do not believe their own absolute anti-drug position. For example, they refuse to turn in their own family members, they smoke and drink when by congruent logic those substances should be banned as well. When confronted with these inconsistencies they will slander me as a libertine, though I neither smoke nor do drugs (not since a couple hits 30 years ago) and my yearly alcohol consumption is 3 glasses of wine and maybe a sixpack worth of Coronas.

What is particularly amusing is that now that tobacco taxes are through the roof, many Conservatives are bying smokes illegally from the indians or across state borders, making them criminal libertines:)

[RobRoy]

I see everything as black and white. If I see a thing as grey, it means I have not broken it down to it's foundational root concept. Once I did that with the drug thing, I becam a proponent of legalization.

It's like you said about your friends. The very arguments they use to support what they do can be used to support the legalization of drugs. And the very reasons they say drugs should stay illegal can be used to make many of their activities illegal.

Opinions that are not built upon foundational beliefs are eisily bludgeoned with logic. 8^>

[gcruse]

 
                                          Think of the War on Drugs and the many victimless
                                          lifestyle crimes.   By making so much private behavior
                                          illegal, we are in fact making scofflaw criminals of great
                                          swaths of the population.  This is corrosive to good
                                          citizenship, at the least, which leads to degradation
                                          of society.  Degradation of society is the prime
                                          rationale of those who support and demand
                                          more victimless crime penalties and lifestyle regulation.
                                          Think about it.