5 Reasons I Am Libertarian

3. I Don’t Think Prison Is The Same Thing As Rehab

Drugs are evil. I hate them, yet I’ve never heard of a violent pothead committing a terrible crime; whereas, I read headlines about drunk people everyday. The facts are in; alcohol is more dangerous than weed, and the truth is your right to self ownership extends to doing what you want to yourself, even when it’s stupid and self destructive. The idea of the government saving you from yourself is ridiculous, because their idea is to use mandatory minimum sentencing to send harmless drug peddlers to hang out with hardcore serial killers for ten plus years in prison. Let’s treat this addiction epidemic as what it is: a health issue, not a crime issue.