War on Drugs

DEA bigwig tells congress marijuana legalization scares DEA officials. Of course it does. It threatens their rich gravy train of money stolen from taxpayers.

Those who support the drug war cannot claim to support limited government.

"But that’s not all, for once the government assumes control over what one can and can’t put into his mouth, nose, or veins or regulates the circumstances under which one can lawfully introduce something into his body, there is no limit to its power and no stopping its reach. Again, as Mises makes clear “[o]pium and morphine are certainly dangerous, habit-forming drugs. But once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.” "

Excellent.

Great quote:

"And if they wonder if I’m prepared to endure a world that in drug legalization is like 1910 in America where one could buy cocaine and cannabis and opium in every corner drug store, then yes, I guess we could return to that “dangerous” social experiment that plunged America into chaos before the Drug War began."

No kidding.