Is stopping Purdue Pharma from selling life-destroying opiates "clamping down on little people"? I'd say no. Is alcohol and marijuana prohibition "clamping dow

Is stopping Purdue Pharma from selling life-destroying opiates "clamping down on little people"? I'd say no. Is alcohol and marijuana prohibition "clamping down on little people"? I'd say yes. Clearly there are shades of grey here that need to be worked out and there's no substitute for a first principles analysis of each case on its own merits. If you are worried about the unintended consequences of prohibition, then there are many other avenues without that downside, such as taxing fast food and using that revenue to subsidize healthy food, or mandatory packaging labels, or public health education efforts.