[G Larry]

Society doesn’t need any more intoxicants.

The more the stigma of using intoxicants is removed, the more young people are going to be impacted by their mind dulling, motivation killing qualities.

Despite the howls of protest, the use of “recreational drugs” is a clear gateway to addictive “hard” drugs.

This isn’t some libertarian, individual “right”, as the impacts to society are long term and severe.
Look at the cultures that have tried the libertarian approach.
Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands.....

[Blackirish]

Beer is the ultimate gateway drug.

[Orangedog]

Look at the cultures that have tried the libertarian approach. Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands.....

Yeah, I've looked at those and their curious lack of growing paramilitary police states all in the name of people not being able to mind their own business.

[JRandomFreeper]

My copy of the Constitution leaves out the power to regulate drugs of any sort in Art. 1 Section 8. That is a State police power, and should devolve back to the states. Put federal government back in the constitutional box.

That is, unless you are addicted to big government.

/johnny

[yadent]

Sorry. After having dealt with and treated ten’s of thousands of ‘convicted’ drug addicts over 20+ years, the ‘gateway’ drug for over 80% of them was——alcohol. Alcohol abuse impacts society multiple times greater than ‘drugs’. Now the basic question is; As an consenting adult supposedly solely responsible for the ALL the consequences of your choices, WHO owns your body?

[fr_freak]

The more the stigma of using intoxicants is removed, the more young people are going to be impacted by their mind dulling, motivation killing qualities.

I honestly can't believe how often we have to go over these same logical flaws, again and again and again. Here's yours: there is a HUGE difference between something being illegal and something having a social stigma. Right now, smoking weed is actually considered COOL precisely BECAUSE it is illegal. That has been true since the 1960s/1970s. Stuffy, stick-up-the-ass morons in Washington DC telling people they can't do something has NOTHING to do with whether people want to do it, but it has everything to do with the government having yet another excuse to send jackboots to raid your house in the middle of the night. Get it yet?

[Red Dog #1]

For Libertarian ideas to work, one must be free to succeed or fail. Perhaps all drugs could be legalized, if we were capable of standing idlely by and to witness the self destruction. Much of what claims to Libertarian is really the pursuit of consequence free self indulgence.