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>Is he as blase about drug laws? Drug laws haven't stopped crackheads from being crackheads, or heroin users from getting their drugs. Does he, do you, advocate getting rid of drug laws too? Let anybody who wants them, access to drugs at the corner store? If we don't throw up our hands and say, "people who want drugs will get them, so let's get rid of drug laws", then why do we take exactly the opposite view of guns? We need drug laws even though they do little good, but we don't want gun laws because they do little good seems like a spurious and ingenuous argument to me.

Actually I don't see the law enforcement model as effective against drug use. ( I've worked a lot in this area here and abroad. ) I think laws against the crimes one commits while on drugs or to get the money to buy drugs pretty much cover what is needed. The biggest dent that could be put into supply would be to shatter the economic model that support it.

I think drug laws need to be radically refactored. ( I applaud Canada for being ahead of us in both this and its attitude toward true freedom for consensual partnerships. )

I believe drugs, guns, automobiles, parenting imply being responsible for ones actions. The state has a right to intervene if your behavior impinges on the rights of other citizens. Otherwise we should be blessed with the freedom to be left alone. The state may coerce through policy but should not compel through loss of liberty.