Yes indeed! I to am one of them but my argument may differ somewhat.
I contend that it is impossible to have personal liberty without personal responsibility. Those two things are inextricably linked together which means that if you choose to do drugs and have to steal from me or harm me in any other way in order to support that then I'm going to hold you accountable for that harm no matter WHY you did it!
I guess that really doesn't differ all that much from what Victor said when I think about it.
I agree completely with what Hayek had to say in the above quote.
As usual, you are right, Big. Whether morality causes freedom or freedom causes morality is a "chicken and egg" argument. The point is you can't have one without the other. If you are going to support drug deregulation without supporting economic freedom then you are only going to make society's problem worse.
As it is, the drug war is a very profitable proposition for the Democrat machine. They hand out the welfare and food stamps to lock in the vote from lower class people, then the food stamps and welfare pay for drugs, then they have to hire gobs of law enforcement -- public employees all, so more votes -- to enforce the drug laws. It's a beautiful thing for them.