Via Reason Online's Hit & Run, here's Rep. Barney Frank on his proposed marijuana decriminalization, sounding positively libertarian:
To those who say that the government should not be encouraging the smoking of marijuana, my response is that I completely agree. But it is a great mistake to divide all human activity into two categories: those that are criminally prohibited, and those that are encouraged. In a free society, there must be a very considerable zone of activity between those two poles in which people are allowed to make their own choices as long as they are not impinging on the rights, freedom, or property of others.
"Allowed to make their own choices as long as they are not impinging on the rights, freedom, or property of others." What a concept.
