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The following essay pretty much sums up what is happening and has already happened all over the US and the world as a result of the Nanny state taking responsibility for each and every human being's welfare.  The drug war has become the vehicle of Marxism, the excuse for government agents to steal property and destroy lives.  The bodies continue to pile up in this war and yet the mainstream media still portrays this war as something we must "put up with" because it leads to the "common good", this despite the fact that hundreds of innocent people are killed each year by these authorities who no longer believe in the liberty of the human being.  Taxpayer's money is being stolen on a daily basis, to further this insane war against citizens.  If carried to its logical conclusion, Papa John's will, in the not too distant future, be reduced to the same sad status as Phillip Morris today.

later,

kathy

The War on Drugs as a Marxist Jihad
by Myles Kantor

Private property is conventionally construed as an external good: homes, cars, marshmallows. Ownership becomes a dominion over something discrete from oneself.

While private ownership of homes, cars, and marshmallows is certainly essential to a free society, it remains subsidiary
to the paramount property right of self-ownership. As John Locke observed, "[E]very man has a property in his own
person. This nobody has any right to but himself." James Madison similarly wrote that man "has a property very dear
to him in the safety and liberty of his person." Without this fountainhead, all the mansions, Masseratis, and marshmallows
in the world mean nothing.

Suppose one lives on an island where he enjoys any conceivable luxury: an in-door racquetball court, Turkish bath, the entire
Rifleman series shown in an IMAX theater. The only drawback to this land of splendor is that he may not leave without
the permission of the island's head of state. If after reading Intruder in the Dust and Light in August he wishes to visit the land that inspired Faulkner's prose, someone else's opinion is determinative.

This ostensible paradise is thus a prison. Its plenitude does not negate the expropriation of self-ownership (aka
enslavement) it perpetrates against the resident. In Andrei Sakharov's words, "A free country cannot resemble a cage, even if it is gilded and supplied with material things."

The supremacy of self-ownership having been illustrated, let us turn to the War on Drugs, which is a regime of laws and
concomitant coercion deployed against the consumption of particular chemicals.

Murray Rothbard noted the separation of property rights and human rights reduces people to "ethereal abstractions," and
public discourse about drug prohibition generally overlooks its palpable, oppressive effect on non-aggressive bodily - that is, proprietary - choices. We hear about efficacy strategies, reinforcement programs, etc. To discuss these matters presupposes the legitimacy of the enterprise.

The enterprise in this case is nothing short of a Marxist jihad since the War on Drugs is fundamentally a war on the
paramount property right of self-ownership, prosecuted with
much greater intensity than the 18th Amendment's War on Alcohol. (To examine the drug war's subversion of constitutional norms and militarization of law enforcement, see After Prohibition:
An Adult Approach to Drug Policies in the 21st Century, ed., Timothy Lynch.)

Marxism, of course, is less than smitten with private property. The Communist Manifesto refers to making "despotic inroads on the rights of property" and "the abolition of private property"; the "Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League" affirms, "For us the issue cannot be the alteration of private
property but only its annihilation."

By criminalizing an innocuous indulgence, the drug war perpetrates abridgment of our most personal property. The
expropriative underpinning of drug prohibition would apply equally to the prohibition of high-cholesterol foods or
tobacco products. ("Pizza and cigarettes promote unhealthy living, so they must be stamped out.") In short, drug prohibition implies a mandate for government to prohibit anything.

Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1816, "No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." The drug war forecloses this quintessentially American vision with systematic dispossession and inflation of central power.

Today's drug way tyranny cannot comport with the Founders' design or a free society. Simply put, we own our bodies or
we don't.