So far, under the Liberals' reign that began last month, federal and local police forces across the country have carried out several raids on dispensaries.
Consequently, the neo-liberal approach is to reduce tax rates, tackle corruption, de-regulate and give the market free reign by preventing state interference in economic affairs and reducing state welfare provision.
In San Francisco and Silicon Valley, the technology hub of America, liberal viewpoints reign and the Democrats dominate politics.
With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the great ideological battles of the 20th century seemed to have ended: liberal democracy reigned supreme.
In urban, liberal England Labour reigns supreme.
Last week, as the Senate's reigning liberal lion, he took to the floor to recall that "many military officers urged President Kennedy to approve a preventive attack" to destroy the Soviet missiles before they became operational.
For liberals, it means that unenumerated rights of choice not reign free of the need to accommodate conflicting moral and communal values".
People might have worried about a leader who found it necessary to turn this truism into a grand pronouncement, but, having been left out in the cold during the previous eight years of Putin's reign, Russian liberals were eager to be engaged again.
Even last year, when the Tories returned to power, in coalition with their Liberal Democrat chums, apathy reigned; people were all too happy to sit at home moaning about everything, but no one was pissed off enough to take action.
