Not satisfied with simple pillage, the U.S. Department of Justice is now pushing through Congress riders to bills that circumvent free speech and allow secret searches where the theft of intangible items, e.g. copies of diaries, letters, or hard drives, never need be disclosed to their victims. Such distortions of law and common sense follow a specious axiom. Our legislators delude themselves with the notion that if they just tinker a little bit more with the Bill of Rights and toss in ever increasing tax resources to fill the burgeoning leaks, drug prohibition will supposedly work to the people's benefit. But, the means negates the possibility of any true public benefit. Prohibition has never worked as proclaimed and never will.
Prohibition only serves to rob people and corrupt governments.
We need not ask what plant or drug to prohibit, nor what Draconian law to implement next. Rather, we need to ask who or which institutions are really profiting from drug prohibition. We must get government out of the covert drug market and into honest regulation - where regulation is needed. We must recognize we can possess NO inalienable rights if we, as individuals, don't have the right over even our own minds and bodies let alone our privacy and personal possessions. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1966 and received his medical degree from the University of California Medical School in San Francisco in 1970.