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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.
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.