No vote here. Libertarians are right about licenses for practicing simple trades like hairstyling, right about taxes, spending, etc. They are wrong about drugs. Drugs hurt the user and the society and society should ban them.
If we get everything on track economically and socially, back to a free and strong people that won’t get abused by drug dealers, whether street corner or corporate, maybe I’ll change my mind. But people are too vulnerable to allow drugs. I am a smoker, constantly quitting, constantly going back after months or years, who wishes cigs were illegal. Addiction isn’t a free choice, it’s a hideous life-sucking burden.
Getting real, if drugs are legal, then pimps will legally be able to provide the drugs to women, get them hooked, and then get them hooking. The hooking is illegal, the abuse is illegal, but then again if the libertarians have their way, prostitution would be legal also, so it will get harder and harder to make a case against the slavers.
I don’t have any evidence, but I am guessing marijuana was less of a problem before it was outlawed in 1937 than it is now. I think that taking the cash flow away from cartels, raising tax revenue from production and sales and not spending money putting potheads in jail are all good reasons to legaliize it. Besides the monetary commponent, I believe the “WOD” has cost us more of our freedoms than anything else, especially the forfieture and seizure rules. I don’t see myself ever smoking pot if it became legal. I just don’t think the government needs to protect me from myself.