i don't think people should go to jail for using drugs, although i'm actually in support of fining smokers - both marijuana and tobacco - in residential areas. there has to be some way for low income non-smokers to get out of the way, and much of the discourse ignores how hard it really is to avoid it, unless you can afford your own property. the law should be written primarily to protect the rights of low-income non-smokers, not to protect the rights of smokers.

i do think that addictive drugs with high overdose rates (i pointed to meth and heroin) should be very, very hard to find.

and, i think that libertarians get it wrong when it comes to social reactions to drugs. they seem to think that, if it weren't for the government, drug prohibition would cease; they seem to fail to grasp the depth of social opposition that exists to hard drug use in low-income neighbourhoods. the truth is that what the police often do is protect the pushers from the wrath of the community. if you took the cops out of the scenario and let the community govern itself, it would be far more vicious than the cops are in cracking down on dealers. they'd get lynched; that's the facts of it.

i'm not really in favour of lynching pushers, but i'm an anarchist, and i do think it's up to the community to police itself, in this manner. my argument is actually that abolishing the police would reduce access to hard drugs, because they wouldn't be there to protect the dealers from retribution anymore.

but, in the status quo, i think that a kind of decriminalization + supply reduction combination is the way forwards.

i also think that less resources should be expended on helping addicts out, because once you're on these drugs, you can't really get off them. rehab doesn't work. relapses are the norm, the expectation. there has to be a way out - but we have to stop proselytizing. this christian idea that these people need help and support is wrong; they have to help themselves, and they should more or less be left to die unless they take the initiative to do so.

so, i don't know what you label that. i'm definitely not a market libertarian, but i'm some kind of anarchist; i think we need less policing, but i don't think that means more permissiveness. it's clearly a public health issue, but i reject the idea that we need more social workers as misguided christian do-gooding. it's some kind of synthesis, i guess.