[RegulatorCountry]

There are rightwing libertarians who find the paramilitarization of police forces, no-knock raids, and civil asset forfeiture without even the benefit of a charge let alone a trial, more of a threat than the drugs against which the war on drugs is reputedly being fought.

Assuming they’re all potheads and druggies is a mistake, therefore.

[AlbertWang]

I’ve changed my stance on Drugs substantially over the past decade.

I have no use for dopers or meth heads.

However, if we believe the basic theories of economics, and if we look at what we should have learned from prohibition, it becomes obvious that the current drug laws:
1) Make the wrong people rich
2) Are responsible for 50,000 dead south of the border.

Cary Nation set the stage for Al Capone.
Tough drug laws have very negative consequences.

[muawiyah]

Well, let's see ~ victimless crimes ~ one of my cousins was murdered by her druggy husband with a shotgun. We blame the druggy and his drugs, not the inanimate object ~ and some idiot in the Army decided he had to beat me up with a broom stick in the barracks one evening ~ he was high ~ I thrashed him in the end.

Another druggy robbed my apartment ~ he was eventually caught and was discovered to have murdered two people.

Frankly, in my experience, there's always something with these guys that ends up proving they do not become devotees of the doctrines of ahemsa.