[fr_freak]

These War on Drugs threads are depressing, because they demonstrate just how entrenched the ideas of Big Government and the nanny state are even among so-called conservatives. It is shocking, quite frankly, how many “conservatives” are happy to set Constitutional limits aside when it comes to things they don’t approve of.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

These War on Drugs threads are depressing, because they demonstrate just how entrenched the ideas of Big Government and the nanny state are even among so-called conservatives. It is shocking, quite frankly, how many “conservatives” are happy to set Constitutional limits aside when it comes to things they don’t approve of.

Hey man, murder's ****in' legal, 'cause it's not mentioned in the Constitution!

Hey man, George Washington was against the War on Drugs cause he grew ****in' hemp, man!

/typical libertarian arguments

[logician2u]

I agree. However, I'm not at all depressed (and I don't need any chemicals to feel this way, thank you!) as the tide is turning, just as it did in the early 1930s against national alcohol prohibition.

It's unfortunate that it takes a depression and the government running out of money before politicians begin to realize they are losing a big source of tax revenue.

As you are probably aware, tax revenue--not the northeast liberal Catholics needing their afternoon shot of Cutty Sark--was the main reason Prohibition was repealed.