There's a Drug War on in the United States. The States individually and the People collectively have the federal government on a rout, at least in the federal U.S. war on marijuana.
Where on the spectrum should U.S. federal drug policy land?
"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits." Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson expresses a tidy if outdated simplicity here. Is it a practical basis for 3rd millennium U.S. federal drug policy?
Jefferson had little reason to include drunk driving in the formulation of the above quotation.
Yet we contend with it now.
Surely there must be a "goldilocks zone", a band within the spectrum where government policy and involvement is neither needlessly intrusive, authoritarian, nor irresponsibly derelict.
Has this newly announced CDC guideline landed within that goldilocks band of the spectrum?
