And there's something about being emotionally involved in an issue that makes normally clear-headed conservatives join the liberals in their end-justifies-the-means disregard for constitutional limits on the power of the federal government.
Making drugs illegal is not outside the perview of society even in a constitutional government wherein liberty and individual rights are protected. You don't have a right to make lives around you a wasteland in order to convince yourself that you're happy sucking a pound of grass a week into your brain. You don't have a right to drugs. You don't have a right to take drugs, etc. You do have a right to the pursuit of happiness - note, only the pursuit is garaunteed, not the outcome. We're not mindless idiots here, though some of you by your argumentation are trying to take us for such. The constitution doesn't protect your right to be a druggy. It may protect your ability to be a moron - so long as you don't infringe on anyone elses rights. But that doesn't extend to being a drugs-attached moron. That is still illegal and will continue to be illegal. And if you're embibing in them, you're as big a crook as the rapist in chief. Breaking the law is breaking the law.