What is the libertarian position on the “drug war”?
This country went through Prohibition once, and its only long-term result was to corrupt law enforcement and create a vicious and entrenched criminal class. It’s happening again, and (just like last time) selective enforcement is making the “war on drugs” a war against the poor and black and downtrodden and a pretext for dangerous expansions in police power (through confiscation laws, “no-knock” warrants and a thousand other “anti-drug” measures). In any case, the government has no right to tell us what we can or cannot put in our bodies. Only the individual can decide to “say no”; the drug problem is not one of supply but of *demand*. Total legalization of everything is the only way to break the drug gangs.
