If you like freedom, it's simple. Government has no reason, government has no right, to make the sale, possession or use of anything an individual does to her or his self a crime. Even if it's obviously a bad choice. That doesn't mean crackheads who rob convenience stores should be coddled or folks who drive stoned excused. Treat them the same as a drunk driver or any fatty who holds up a bakery during a confectionery sugar fit.
Criminal law exists to protect people from the misdeeds of others.
But not to protect people from themselves, and not to punish people for living outside mainstream culture, and certainly not to put people in jail who are suspected of other crimes government can't prove. That's all that drug laws do, so let's flush the whole package. John Carrberry is a self-syndicated columnist and host of the radio talk show Common Sense.