Reply #52: None, call me Randian all you like but you have no case that prohibition even "kinda" works

[TheKentuckian]

and the biggest complaints about even what I'd consider the worst of the worst are largely creations of the prohibition.

Getting puffed up, indignant, or waxing moral doesn't change decades and decades of utter failure. What you think is "best" doesn't work at all.
Steadfast devotion to failed tactics and absurd redirection of law enforcement isn't smart, moral, or an investment. It is a waste of dwindling resources and in many cases human capital.

Few in history are more failed than the drug warriors, yet they insist on going back to the well over and over with ever worse results.

Call me Randian all you want but kindly do it from the corner with your pants around your ankles, your thumb in your mouth, and a dunce cap on.
The arrogance from someone pumping expensive tactics that don't work and are randomly applied is staggering.