The author, with remarkable transparency, dismisses out-of-hand the idea that people ought to be free by default, treating the idea as a fringe libertarian beli

The author, with remarkable transparency, dismisses out-of-hand the idea that people ought to be free by default, treating the idea as a fringe libertarian belief, rather than one of the key foundational philosophies of the United States. Basically, his argument boils down to "Cannabis legalization didn't have as positive an impact as promised, so it should be made illegal again". Before aggressively cherry picking sources to back his point, he even complains about the portrayal of his (minority) opinion as being held exclusively by stodgy, stuck-up old men, before going on a stodgy, old-man rant about kids these days.