In before the first drug warrior claiming conservatism means supporting big government programs to make people act in accordance with their beliefs, no matter how expensive, how much the para-military thugs are a danger to democracy, no matter how much the Constitution is destroyed, and no matter how fruitless it is to attempt to protect idiots from themselves.
Also, in before the tear-filled post about how drugs killed some random love one, despite the illogic in supporting a drug war that clearly failed to protect said idiot loved one against him or herself.
And, in pre-rebuttal, no I don’t smoke pot and never have, and think those who do are idiots. I just don’t want to spend my tax money in a pointless attempt to keep them from doing drugs.
Society might survive legal marijuana. But legal hard drugs? Look at the societies that tolerated them: America in the 19th century, pre-communist China, Iran until the late 1950s. All had HUGE addict populations - the Iranians still do.
The drug war is a necessary evil. I wish it wasn’t, but it is.