Your heart is in the right place concerning the cause, Jamstigator, but truly: both sides of the aisle in DC are fools regarding prohibition. I'm an active Republican. Were this man: http://www.house.gov/paul/ representative of the party as a whole, I'd be a proud one.

With several notable exceptions, I find the Libertarian party platform to be admirable, and close to my ideals. The idea that grassroots, slow expansion will bear fruit is an article of faith, however, that I don't share. The party still hasn't regained the status it had before the '83 split. I believe that at the moment the most effective option for change is working from within the two-party system we are saddled with, whichever flavor requires you to hold your nose the least. Don't 'choose a party': choose a party to change. The number of fellow Republicans I have turned against the drug war - or at least rendered ambivalent - is well into the dozens, some of whom are influential in the community or party at the local level. Truly, a significant and disruptive event on a scale far greater than 9/11 would be needed to shake the tree of American society enough to give an alternate path a chance.

And now it's time for an aimless, cathartic rant:
'Working from within' is a fine idea in the abstract, but it is a damned hard road to travel. You can't know how galling it is for me as a Hayek-loving, small-government-and-personal-responsibility conservative to have to sit and watch 'my' party spend like rabid socialists scant years after gaining control of all branches of government, launch harebrained schemes to turn the barbaric Middle East into Iowa, and spend endless quantities of money prosecuting a prohibitionist war that takes its authority from a 1930's leftist scheme to allow the Federal government to regulate literally everything! For our European board members, I'm referring to the subversive commerce clause reinterpretation used initially to create the New Deal, and since then for nothing but mischief.

*cough* Sorry. I feel better now.