Let me twist an analogy.

I don't care if law enforcement is more expensive than just absorbing the cost of crimes. I want the rule of law enforced, even if it's more expensive.

Thats fine. You go your way and let other people go their way and everyone gets what they want.

That's not at all true and you know it.

I can only answer what is said to me. He said he cared more about the law than the economic results, and I provide a solution for his desires and for the people that don't share them.

I, maybe like you, suspect that he wants others to follow the laws he wants, which is an entirely different proposition.

This is the exact attitude that has resulted in the war on drugs.

Political apathy and racially motivated legislation resulted in the war on drugs.

Don’t want the law enforced? Change the law.

> Don’t want the law enforced? Change the law.

Yes, the law should be changed, but not because drugs aren't bad. But because the high costs of enforcement (direct and indirect) have been worse than the lower costs of people being free to get high.

By your logic, we should continue to ignore all those costs because drugs are still a negative to society and the moral law must be enforced no matter the enforcement cost.