The War on Freedom

Let’s rename The War on Drugs to

The War on Freedom.

How does that compute?

Laurence M. Vance explains it in his book The War on Drugs is a War on Freedom, published Sept, 2012. This post is a summary of some of the points of his book.  You can get the book HERE. I hope, through understanding the government’s gross invasion of our freedom, that we can accomplish what a lot of people say is impossible. Understand this:

NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE!

Freedom entails the right to engage in any behavior whatsoever, so long as it is peaceful. As long as a person isn’t trespassing on the rights of others through violence or fraud, the principles of freedom entitle him to make whatever choices he wants in life, no matter how irresponsible, dangerous or unhealthy they might be. Ergo, a person can smoke a cigarette, drink a glass of wine, a diabetic can eat a whole box of cookies or chocolate bars, and the government has no right to interfere.  At least not yet.

Under what moral authority does government punish people for ingesting substances that the authorities consider harmful? How can such a power—the power to fine, incarcerate, and imprison a person for ingesting a harmful substance—be reconciled with the fundamental principles of individual liberty? It can’t. So how has this been going on now for 100 years?

What about the constitution? The constitution established a federal government of limited, enumerated powers.  Is the power to punish people for ingesting harmful substances among those enumerated powers?  No.  And an amendment to criminalize the possession and distribution of alcohol had to later be repealed.

On page 1 of The Drugs of John Gray, Mises Daily, Oct 6, 2009, it states

“The government’s War on Drugs, like its War on Poverty and its War on Terror, is a failure.  It has clogged the judicial system, unnecessarily swelled prison populations, fostered violence, corrupted law enforcement, eroded civil liberties, and destroyed financial privacy. It has encouraged illegal searches and seizures, ruined countless lives, wasted hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars, hindered legitimate pain treatment, and had no impact on the use or availability of most drugs in the United States.”

A government with the power to outlaw harmful substances or immoral practices is a government with the power to ban any substance or practice.  There should be no such thing as a controlled substance.

Anyone who reveres the Constitution should support both the freedom to use drugs for any purpose and a free market in drugs. Believers in a free society should challenge all laws on drug trafficking, drug manufacturing, drug sales, and drug use. They should object to the arrests of Americans for drug possession and the incarceration for drug-related offenses.

Lovers of liberty should be against the office of the national drug czar, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Narcotics Rewards Program and the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.

All freedom-loving Americans should oppose the DEA.

I want the government out of my body. I want the state out of my home, my car, my job, my church, my family, my club, my doctor’s office, my insurance company, my bedroom, and my life.

Lysander Spooner, in 1875 wrote Vices are Not Crimes. He stated:

“Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property.

Crimes are those act by which one man harms the person or property of another.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others and no interference with their persons or property…

Unless this clear distinction between vices and crimes be made and recognized by the laws, there can be on earth no such thing as individual right, liberty, or property; no such things as the right of one man to the control of his own person and property, and the corresponding and co-equal rights of another man to the control of his own person and property.”

I think we have experienced this over the years, and the control is increasing due to the failure of the basis for the control.

So if you agree with me, we must get the country to understand this, through posts, letters, FB, LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and TikTok messages.  Share this post with everyone you know. Get everyone to understand that no drug is the cause of addiction. Anyone can learn the real cause of addiction by watching the video on www.doctorsofcourage.org/videos, or the webinar recording on the top menu bar of Doctorsofcourage.org.

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