[TheRealThing]

While we disagree philosophically on whether drug use by adults in their own home should be legal or not, I find the proposed legalization of drugs and the so-called "right to choose" wildly at odds with liberals' desire to regulate minute details of our lives in so many more innocuous ways. These self-professed champions of individual rights see no problem telling people that they must purchase healthcare insurance, they must wear seat belts, they must pay for cell phones and a host of other luxuries for the alleged poor American citizens and even illegal aliens, they must only smoke tobacco outside in designated areas (in some cases on their own property), they must obtain government permits for often minor enhancements to their own homes, they must fly flags only of a designated size in designated areas, they must eat only federally approved food, they must take only FDA-approved medicines (even if they are terminally ill), etc., etc., etc....

The irony that so many liberals feel kinship to libertarians, merely because libertarians also believe that adults should be free to ingest or inhale whatever they want is lost on liberals who get off on regulating every facet of our daily lives, except in a very few areas. In those areas, such as the recreational use of drugs, liberals demand the freedom to behave irresponsibly. But they will be the first to demand that everybody else pay for their rehab when they cannot handle the responsibility that comes with such freedom.

I'm all in with you on this one. Great post.