Years ago I used to be a card carrying libertarian.
I agreed with many of the party platforms but finally quit the party after I found out that the MAIN thrust of their party was to legalize marijuana FIRS and tend to the other things that were less important. “Gimme my drugs first and then we will talk about what you think is important” was the credo.
Now, don’t get me wrong for I believe in the fact that all prescription drugs should be legal and without any restraints. The only reason they were controlled in the first place was to create a new government department to control them along with insuring that the medical and pharmaceutical industry was guaranteed huge profits by the regulation of them. No doctor visit...no scrip...no prescription drugs.
If you were in line at the local Wal-mart pharmacy and had a heart attack, you know you needed Nitro to survive, but could not get it since you did not have a prescription...and the pharmacist sure as hell would not give it to you but would call 911. Something wrong here?
The problem I have with the libertarians pertaining to marijuana and other hard drugs is the fact that they don’t address all of the other factors that arise from use of these drugs upon the tax paying society along with crimes to pay for them in many cases.
FIRS = FIRST
Too early in the morning....too much coffee....no drugs.
This isn’t about whether marijuana should be legal. It’s about who’s legitimately authorized by the Constitution to say whether it is or isn’t.
Don't want to pay for drug users' health care? Don't! Don't want to pay for people who make themselves unemployable through drug abuse? Don't! Using big-government healthcare and welfare programs as an excuse for a big-government drug-criminalization program is not a conservative argument.
along with crimes to pay for them in many cases.
If drugs were legal, their prices would plummet and so would the crime done to buy them.