Yep. The article read like something I wrote long ago, with registered users having limited professional options, taxation, and regulation of sales/purchases.
Sadly, the GWOD has been used to numb people to the ideas of 'random' searches, no-knock dynamic entry by militarized police units, checkpoints, etc. Other agencies are joining in, such as the TSA, and we are hurtling headlong toward the Police State, if we aren't already there. Even ideas once broached for the Drug War that did not pass muster have been resurrected in the War on Terror (Read THIS you NSA PUKES!), and all our communications are subject to summary recording and scrutiny, whether we have ever had so much as a speeding ticket or not.
Most of society has been lulled into somnolence, by thinking they have "nothing to hide". Yet the ever changing legal landscape renders even the most innocuous act a grave violation of some regulation or law, making no one safe.
Every "War" declared on the domestic front has been declared on all of us, not just the people the government claims to be the targets, yet so many are bamboozled into sacrificing their freedoms thinking it somehow only applies to "the other guy", for the sake of the illusion of security.
Exactly.
People against the WOD are not for drug abuse. We are simply against giving up our constitutional rights for any reason. Especially for a pointless war. It affects all of us, not just drug users.
See my last post 55