What to ask the candidates
At a Republican Party function last summer, a candidate made a speech. Afterwards, I walked up to her and said, "I have a question about where you stand on an issue. Are you one of those Republicans like Congressman Ron Paul, who want to call off the War on Drugs now, or are you one of those Republicans who still want to wait until more cops get themselves killed in action first?" Candidate Kelly Ayotte, who had just recently quit her gig as NH Attorney General to run for U.S. Senator, was choked up in horror at the question. Most politicians who vote for cops to die, do not want to admit, even to themselves, that they are buying votes with cops' blood, and will continue to do so as long as the cops are stupid enough to continue furnishing it. (The news media does not help much when they portray the cops as "fallen heroes" even when it happens during a drug bust. Try robbing an armored car, get yourself shot dead, you're not a fallen hero, and neither are cops fallen heroes when they suffer the same consequences for enforcing blatantly unjust laws.)
Clearly, the government never had any right to restrict what kinds of drugs the citizens can enjoy. That is already settled. If you don't want any more cops to get themselves killed in the War on Drugs, don't vote for politicians who do. The Second Amendment was not written for sportsmen. Defend liberty with ballots or drug dealers will have to defend liberty with bullets.
