Prohibition against drugs is a failed policy

The fact is that prohibition by Government upon what people can do with their own bodies is a failed policy which will never be able to be enforced.
For that reason, the "war on drugs" is a fools errand. The reason is that people instinctively understand that government does not have the legal right to tell any individual what they may or may not do with their own body. If someone wants to self medicate themselves it is none of the governments business. Each individual is sovereign and is the owner of themselves and of their own body. In order for the government to claim legal jurisdiction to tell an individual what they can and can not do with their body, the government would have to claim legal ownership of that individual. The ownership of another individual is contrary to every principal the USA was founded on. The types of government which claim ownership of the people are feudal and totalitarian forms of government. The fact that the "war on drugs" exists, and that government claims the legal power to tell the people what they can do with their own bodies shows we are no longer the free Republic which we were intended to be.

A true statement, prohibition is a failed policy for society. However, for the various enforcement bureaucracies, including the prisons, it is the gift that keeps on giving.

so suicide is now legal in all states?

gdgyva said:

so suicide is now legal in all states?

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What does suicide have to do with it?

Thoreau72 said:

What does suicide have to do with it?

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the state in MANY MANY ways can and does control what you can do to your own body

gdgyva said:

the state in MANY MANY ways can and does control what you can do to your own body

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I suppose you mean that the state can and will write laws regarding what a person can do with his body.

But of course writing laws is NOT the same as actually controlling what a person does with his body. Though illegal, people commit suicide all the time, if that's what you mean.

Though illegal, people put all kinds of forbidden substances in their bodies. Though illegal, about 85% of drivers exceed the legal speed limit.

Thoreau72 said:

I suppose you mean that the state can and will write laws regarding what a person can do with his body.

But of course writing laws is NOT the same as actually controlling what a person does with his body. Though illegal, people commit suicide all the time, if that's what you mean.

Though illegal, people put all kinds of forbidden substances in their bodies. Though illegal, about 85% of drivers exceed the legal speed limit.

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and they will limit access to those things they dont want you to have

if they state deems it unhealthy, or addictive, or harmful....it will try to make it illegal

nothing new here

gdgyva said:

and they will limit access to those things they dont want you to have

if they state deems it unhealthy, or addictive, or harmful....it will try to make it illegal

nothing new here

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Yes, they will attempt to restrict access to certain substances, but when some of those substances grow like weeds, and others wash up on the beach, and others are diverted from legal channels for $, their efforts always fail. They don't want to win the war on drugs, they only want to wage it. War is good for bureaucracies. :mrgreen:

gdgyva said:

so suicide is now legal in all states?

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Yes, it is.