Simple. Don’t do drugs.
The current issue of Imprimis, published by Hillsdale College, has an excellent article titled "The Worldview that Makes the Underclass" available online at http://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/current
Pretty funny coming from a guy whose known more Nazis than a Munich beer hall and more neo-Confederates than an SCV convention.
Including the legal ones, of course.
Contraband law is Tyrannical. The requirements of its enforcement necessarily lead to gross abuses, Constitutional and otherwise.
Limited, minimal government should never wield such arbitrary power as to make commonplace such things as:
During alcohol Prohibition, the government was perfectly willing to imprison ordinary citizens for possessing or selling the wrong drug (distilled spirits). Such "government" was Tyrannical then, it's Tyrannical now, and it always will be Tyrannical.
The willingness to grant government such sweeping, virtually unchecked powers (see the USSC) occurs on all "sides" of the political spectrum, IMHO, and it's net effect is a whole lot o' governmental Tyranny.
I'll always be against that. No free adult deserves to be imprisoned merely for committing the "crime" of possessing (or facilitating possession of) the wrong plant, distilled spirit, medicine, or recreational substance.
I just don't believe that Rush Limbaugh is a criminal, regardless of the fact that some government agency didn't like his medical habits. Do you?
The same goes for the likes of Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, or any of countless others, including ordinary everyday people. Does anybody really believe such a wide swath of peaceable people belong in prison? You know, like during Prohibition?
In any event, contraband law, in all of its insidious forms, will always be the road to Tyranny, and, even when enforced in the most unrestrained and extreme ways, its horrid abuses will be rationalized executively, legislatively, and judicially by whichever political faction happens to hold power at the time.
Prohibition is just another cog in an increasingly Tyrannical government behemoth, IMHO.
It’s not about the drugs, it’s about the power and money and violence.
Power for the cartels that are cashing in on prohibition. Money for the police force and governments who are profiting from asset seizure.Violence for the psychopaths who open on a street corner to protect their “turf” from another group of competing psychopaths. Power for the politicians who want to be seen as “tough on crime.” Money for a prison and legal industry that would see its bottom line crushed if they didn’t have the steady stream of inputs. Violence for swat teams who get to smash down doors and use all sorts of “cool” military hardware on the civilian populace under color of law.
Speaking for myself, I’m not seeing much to like about the drug war.