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When it comes to ingesting harmful substances, I am as libertarian as the next man—unless the next man happens to be Murray Rothbard or David Friedman. If consenting adults choose to addle their brains with fashionable toxins, I figure that is pretty much their business, and none of mine.

There are, however, a couple of provisos involved here. One is that the people inveigled into using such substances be adults, not children; the other is that everybody on the receiving end have fairly accurate information about what he is consuming. Those are provisos that, in recent years at least, have been more or less observed in the case of alcohol and tobacco, but widely ignored in the case of the latest drug of choice, marijuana.

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M. Stanton Evans

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When it comes to ingesting harmful substances, I am as libertarian as the next man—unless the next man happens to be Murray Rothbard or David Friedman. If consenting adults choose to addle their brains with fashionable toxins, I figure that is pretty much their business, and none of mine.

There are, however, a couple of provisos involved here. One is that the people inveigled into using such substances be adults, not children; the other is that everybody on the receiving end have fairly accurate information about what he is consuming. Those are provisos that, in recent years at least, have been more or less observed in the case of alcohol and tobacco, but widely ignored in the case of the latest drug of choice, marijuana.