Archive for December 14th, 2009

The drug war. A colossal waste of money and manpower with results that should have been expected considering the disaster that was prohibition, a war on alcohol that succeeded in veritably creating organized crime in this country. Of course, it would not be the first time clear lessons of history were completely ignored by our government, but it is no less frustrating.

The libertarian stance on drugs has been a political white elephant for the party. In my political strategy articles I admonish libertarians to put their position on drugs on the back burner. Even in cases where a candidate has not mentioned drugs, it tends to be brought up by opponents because it is a hot-button, emotionally charged issue that when attacked in sound-bite form tends to make the libertarian under fire look like a crazy extremist. The only defense is to downplay the issue and point out the silliness of the attack and hope that it gets dropped. That said, I would like to let the conservatives out there in on the reasoning behind the drug stance in the libertarian platform. Read the rest of this entry »