“Oubursts”, “moralizing”, ha! More wily, and enjoyable, debating tricks from the master! Ramesh, I can be just as “moralistic” as you, it’s just that my morality differs in some respects from yours and (while you are certainly no nanny stater), I am, I suspect, more reluctant to impose it on others…

Now, turning away from my disgraceful moral relativism to the second point you raise, if the “vast” majority of the population really does support the failed policy of prohibition in its current form (an assertion that will surprise all those voters who, for example, support medical marijuana), then, in that respect, they are indeed ‘idiots’ – or is that elitist to say so?