“The most pitiless warriors against drugs have always been militant progressives. In China, the most savage attack on drug use occurred when the country was convulsed by a modern western doctrine of universal emancipation — Maoism. It is no accident that the crusade against drugs is led today by a country wedded to the pursuit of happiness — the United States. For the corollary of that improbable quest is a puritan war on pleasure.”

Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use.
Message to Congress (2 August 1977)
Presidency (1977–1981)

Just for Laughs Comedy Festival (1990)

Deadbeat Hero (2004)

Message to Congress (2 August 1977)
Presidency (1977–1981), 1977

Salvation (2005)

CNN Chat Transcript http://www.cnn.com/chat/transcripts/2000/8/1/nadelmann/ on August 1, 2000.
The War on Drugs

"The Brontosaurus in the Broom Closet".
Context: The War on Drugs is over. Drugs won. It's time to stop wasting money, destroying lives, grinding up the Bill of Rights, and giving greater and greater power to the jackbooted thugs, in an unnecessary and futile attempt to enforce one group's ideas about what chemicals and vegetables some other group ought to manufacture, cultivate, distribute, purchase, possess, and consume. Repeal the drug laws, and prices will drop a thousandfold, driving most participants out of the business.

Chaos and Cyber Culture (1994)

Source: Choice Theory (1997), p. 88