Neither of you are apparently capable of seeing the parallels and problems of various wilful authorities who assert their respective political ambitions no matter what the law or Constitutional protections state.
Your slavish toryism is not conservatism in the American sense at all, but merely the New World expression of an age-old human weakness, namely abject fawning towards those that wield the sword. My ancestors kicked your ancestors' *ss, however, thereby making LIBERTY, not CONFORMITY, the reigning principle of New World society.
That you choose to be blind is your prerogative; that, however, confers no right to have your sordid views go unchallenged.
It's not about 'Dope' at all, really; it's about where sovereignty resides. You may take the side of Power, I take the side of Right.