Where Are the Moral Standards?

Let's face it, this fight over whether to legalize drugs isn't somuch over whether it will reduce drug abuse and crime.

You don't need yet another study, as Surgeon General JoycelynElders said, to find out that it won't. Common sense alone tells youthat increasing the drug supply will not reduce demand; that makingdrugs widely available to pregnant women will increase the numbers ofcrack babies; that unless legalized drugs are handed out in unlimitedand free amounts, addicts will still steal; that it is a stupidmessage to send our children.

No, this debate is about something more fundamental: Whethergovernment ought to stick its nose into how people "run …