Thank you for the strawmen. I will burn them at Christmas. Do you really think ”legal” means unregulated? That, if something, is a libertarian viewpoint. Thin

Thank you for the strawmen. I will burn them at Christmas. Do you really think ”legal” means unregulated? That, if something, is a libertarian viewpoint. Think about how many regulations you need to fulfill to be able to legally build a house, or employ a person. Are those things completely unregulated? How about the fuel you purchase at a gas station? Ever get only water or nitromethane instead of unleaded gas? Of course you haven’t, because you are buying a legal, regulated product. Making drugs legal would make it possible to enforce standards of quality, labeling, age limits, et cetera before the products ever got to market. By making drugs illegal, the society has abandoned all those controls and replaced them with the threat of violence: enforcement of behavior instead of enforcement of regulations. That does not sound like freedom to me. (Please don’t start arguing that murder also needs to be legalized, we both know that is not what I’m arguing for.)