We all have them….admit it or not…you to have a vice…whether it is smoking or chocolate or weed or coke or porn or….well I bet you get the idea….some of us will not admit to having a vice because it is illegal……the point of this post is that the government does not have the right to interfere with me chasing me vice if I am hurting NO one but myself ……..

Now for a little history….

The radical American individualist legal theorist and abolitionist Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) argues in a collection of essays on the prohibition of alcohol that all laws against “vice” were unjust, immoral, and counter-productive, and that practising a vice was no crime at all:

VICES are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property.

Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

In vices, the very essence of crime—that is, the design to injure the person or property of another—is wanting.

It is a maxim of the law that there can be no crime without a criminal intent; that is, without the intent to invade the person or property of another. But no one ever practises a vice with any such criminal intent. He practises his vice for his own happiness solely, and not from any malice toward others.

Unless this clear distinction between vices and crimes be made and recognized by the laws, there can be on earth no such thing as individual right, liberty, or property; no such things as the right of one man to the control of his own person and property, and the corresponding and co-equal rights of another man to the control of his own person and property.

For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.

I agree with Spooner…..and sounds  a lot like some of the beliefs of Libertarians…….I believe that such programs as the War on Drugs is a waste of money for it can NEVER be won and that cash would better serve the American people than flushed down some third world toilet…….and anything that effects NO one but me….should not be a crime….I am have my vices but they only harm me and NO one else.