I used to be a supporter of the War, but this conservative has come around on the issue, and I suspect there are others as well.
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I respect that. I don’t like it or agree with it, but I understand it. The problem is... you are in the minority here. Drug legalization is a socially liberal policy. And no political conservative inside or outside the Beltway supports legal dope.
“And no political conservative inside or outside the Beltway supports legal dope.”
Except for the tons of legal dope sold by their pharmaceutical company donors.
Tom Tancredo supported Amendment 64 here.
If you think that there are no serious conservatives outside the beltway who support legalization, then you obviously have your head up your posterior.
First, we can look to the former governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson, as one elected conservative who favored ending the “war on drugs.”
Tom Tancredo is another. Thomas Sowell has spoken out on the futility of the current course of action.
People who support the “war on drugs” are just statist thugs, posing as law-and-order conservatives. William F. Bennett, the preening, unctuous twit who froze the civilian machine gun population is one of the examples of a conservative talking out both sides of his mouth. What did NFA weapons have to do with drugs? Nothing. But Bennett needed to make it look like he was “doing something” as “Drug Czar” and so he did.