It's hard to keep all the hysteria separate at The Daily Beast, where libertarian hysteria meets liberal hysteria and proves what we knew all along: hysteria is a defining feature of both liberalism and libertarianism.
Glenn Beck:
'“I would open it up to all drugs [potentially being legalized],” and leave it up to the states.'
The Daily Beast:
'In Beck’s telling, the main consequence of this police escalation and the war on drugs was not the mass incarceration of millions . . .."
The one exaggerates what society can stand, the other what it can't.
Beer, wine and liquor have a long record of being more or less controllable while opiates do not. No one with much experience of the latter is clamoring for their wider use.
On the other side 2.3 million adult incarcerates barely qualifies as millions in a society of 321 million people. The only people demanding the release of the duly captive are Democrats and other racists.
