Just the Canary in the Cave

Have enjoyed reading the well reasoned thoughts and arguments here about this issue. But I question the depth of outrage of most people. The drug war issue is important not only for it's own sake but because it is the clearest example of how the Constitution (not to mention reason) can be arbitrarily ignored by the Federal government. And this is what worries me most: That the insanity of the drug war can lie in the open for so long and be accepted as normal by so many Americans, even if they don't agree with it, means that the will to resist has been bred out of us. By accepting, I mean that we are willing to vote for politicians whose parties openly support this obviously unconstitutional insanity. I contend that if we were principled individuals and serious about the issue, we would not do this. At the risk of sounding melodramatic, my conclusion is that we are doomed as a free society. Even if the marijuana prohibition ended tomorrow, it would not change the situation, no more than the end of alcohol prohibition did in the 30s. We will go complacently on.