[Orangedog]

The government has the right to make laws to influence moral actions. The purpose of the law is to promote virtue and punish vice.

Which has failed miserably almost every time it has tried:

War on alcohol-Created organized crime...War on drugs-Drug use has never been higher, and as a bonus, the 4th, 5th, and 10th Amendments became "inconvenient" to the IRS, DEA, FBI and local SWAT teams. War on sodomy-What unintended consequences should we be willing hand down to the next several generations in the name of THIS war?

[Hermann the Cherusker]

War on alcohol-Created organized crime...War on drugs-Drug use has never been high

This is certainly news to all the Organized Crime gangs that existed prior to 1920. As to drug use never being higher - I doubt it. Can you provide some evidence of that?