Commentary Magazine author Peter Wehner has a post up which asserts that the law is an expression of values. He specifically mentions the drug laws. So let us look at the expression of values from the standpoint of the drug laws.
So the the law against cannabis represents the value of denying medicine to the sick?
The law against opiates represents the value of persecuting minorities (the origin of the law according to historian Charles Whitebread) ?
Or perhaps the Prohibition laws are an expression of our preference for stupidity given the experience with alcohol prohibition.
Or maybe they are an expression of the willingness to ignore the Constitution by “Constitutional” Conservatives (where is the Drug Prohibition Amendment?).
Either there is something wrong with your thesis or there is something wrong with American society.