Michelle Malkin posted a blog about the Utah Rave and the whole drug war issue being contested with police acting out of hand in a crowd control situation.

Look, I'm proponent number one for citizens being able to smoke a joint in the comfort of their home and in the sacred circle of their friends and family but I have never been one for raves or large gatherings of people inebriated on any substance.

Even marijuana can spark a bad vibe with the wrong people present. Despite myths to the contrary, I have seen people act like idiots whilst high on pot.

I never got into cocaine or meth or whatever adrenaline drug was trendy at the time. When I was a partier, before I started getting laid on a full-time monogamous basis, I never needed anything more than pot and even alcohol was a far distant second to that.

Nowadays, I settle for a good video game and a glass of wine after a steak dinner.

There are social contracts we enter into, people, that negate the freedom we have to put substances into our bodies. One of those contracts is the operation of a motor vehicle and the other is behaving like a civilized human being while in a crowd of intoxicated loons brandishing light sticks and stupid hats.

While Michelle uses the term Libertarian in a slightly negative fashion in her post, I will always stand on this core value: "We have the freedom to pursue our own vision of happiness provided that this pursuit does not infringe upon the lives or property of other citizens."

In evaluating this situation, I would say these ravers are on the short end of that stick and that they should have just stayed home, took a gravity bong hit, and zoned out to The Final Cut by Pink Floyd.