Prohibitionists use the same twisted logic which leftists do in order to destroy liberty, all in the name of doing good, of course.
If your government can put you in prison for owning the wrong plant, medicine, or liquid spirits, then there's no such thing as practical limited government.
Government does not exist to legislate morality or coerce behavior; it exists to defend individuals against force and fraud.
The arguments used by Prohibitionists epitomize the reason we have arbitrary law in this country. Right wing and left wing authoritarians simply demand that we choose between whose self-righteous vision of Tyranny will prevail.
No thanks; I'll take actual freedom, with all of its inconvenient challenges; there are not shortcuts to Liberty and civil society. Education must prevail over legislation. Prohibitionists help propagate all the Tyrannical evils of contraband law: no-knock warrants, asset forfeiture, causeless searches, virtual negation of the Fourth Amendment; all of these logically flow from such blind authoritarian impulses.
As it was with alcohol, Prohibition is a perfect example of the solution being far worse than the problem it portends to solve.
Didn’t waste any time reading the article did you?
Don’t waste my time.