Yup. Everybody’s got their sacred cow, everybody wants control on some level. Even I’ve got a few, if you gave me a button to push that would eradicate the cellphone from American culture I’d push it so hard and so fast I’d probably injure myself, I see no benefit from them and lots of annoyance from their users. On some level I realize that my loathing of cellphones and my support of limiting their use is really counter to my usual small government instincts, but they still irritate me. So I try to be a little sympathetic to the drug warriors, we’ve all seen lives destroyed by addiction and I can certainly understand not wanting to see them legal because of it, but on this issue I can look past the personal to the big picture, which they can’t, but I can’t on cellphones. Everybody’s got a cow.
Drugs are illegal, and there is still drug addiction.
There is not a person in the world that I know of that would smoke crack or shoot heroin if only it were legal.
If people want to shoot heroin and smoke crack, they are going to do so, legal or not.
In the meantime, the War on Drugs creates a black market that is filled by the most violent criminals. The violent drug cartels exist because of drug laws, just as the black market for guns exists because of restrictive gun laws.
We tried this with alcohol. Prohibition was a disaster. It created thugs like Al Capone and gave us the freaking Kennedy’s.