well-meaninged authoritarians say we can reduce the amount if we make it illegal. >> and that's worked out so well so far. [laughter] john: they argue more of it. [applause] >> like this, you know, cocaine inventing machines, is it the american way? i get than an alarming concepp to people, but if you look at the huge damage that the war on drugs has done, the disproportioned damage to black communities, students' lives ruined, the costs are huge, and it's not working. heroin is cheaper now than it was 30 years ago. john: nsa spying. when the nsa spying story first broke, i upset libertarians by saying i was not that upset. i figured that my enemies already had all the information. i mean, my neighbor was stealing my e-mail of the year, google, facebook had the information, and i posted a list of a hundred things that government does that upset me more than data mining,