Government has a responsibility to do what government can do to make things better. And I don't think that is the case in many of these situations. In the particular case of drugs, unless you go for decriminalization, which is Bill Buckley's solution but not mine, I think you have to say that one government function is certainly to attack, as best we can, the whole question of the demand. I have a hunch that Willie Brown would not let that through the legislature, and he wouldn't have much trouble. Because this is the fashionable vice.
Tobacco is the middle-class disease.
But a little pot, a little crack, these are things that younger and different social categories have found out about and go for, and they are, for the moment, untouchable, I think. Yes, among other things. That would be the primary place to look. No, I think there is an important critique being made. All the books of Charles Murray, for example, are brilliant analyses of what's wrong with the liberal solution to the problem.