>"We're a country that can barely handle a free-market debt system -- I don't even want to know what we would do with a liberalized drug market." There are a t

>"We're a country that can barely handle a free-market debt system -- I don't even want to know what we would do with a liberalized drug market." There are a ton of packaged assumptions and a nice non-sequitir in just this one little sentence. That's sloppy rhetoric. It would take a page to unpack and discuss them all with clear thinking. >"Then again, I am one of those people who doesn't do drugs, drink, smoke, or eat processed foods" Probably most of the people that advocate drug legalization aren't regular users, and many of them have never used drugs. Rather, they support legalization because of the effects of prohibition on society. I wouldn't impute selfish motives to people that disagree with you without understanding them first.