The Hard Drug Users' Protection Agency

"If almost everyone believes strongly that heroin addiction is so horrible that it should not be permitted anywhere under any circumstances, anarcho-capitalist institutions will produce laws against heroin."

I can't imagine how there could be "laws against heroin" that didn't vigorously violate the NAP.

There would be enclaves that had their own law systems.

If you mean there would be creeping statism, I don't disagree.

I mean that title to land can carry customary obligations. Its not "statism" if people choose to live in a community where no one is allowed to shoot up heroin, not even in the streets.

People want to live where people don't shoot up heroin on the streets. That's not the same as not allowed to shoot heroin on the streets.

Assume the rest of society was bitterly opposed to hard drug use
Why? In reality, an ancap society will only ever exist when conditions determined by prior and current events permit its existence. Technology is arguably the primary determining condition. It's more likely that by the time an ancap society is permitted to exist, people will live in a world where pleasure is much easier to come by, or where heroin doesn't need to be injected, or where drugs with better effects and less side effects outperform heroin as the drug of choice, or where the effects of heroin use may be limited by technology, or where A, B, C...X, Y, and Z.

If people started with a more realistic outlook, there would be much less absurd "what if" scenarios flying around. When liberty is permitted, it will be because technology has covered all the bases. There won't be any absurd scenarios about heroin because in such a world where that is an issue, liberty will never exist.

New technology didn't lead to legalized prostitution, or legalized alcohol or marijuana (in certain parts of the world).

I think the question of how effective social ostracism would be is very important, especially if society is bitterly against some victimless crime.

What ancap society exists where technology didn't play the major role in permitting legalized prostitution, alcohol, or marijuana?

Speaking of social ostracism, how are all these people going to communicate the most effectively? Oh yes...with technology. Since politics relies on manipulation and misinformation, then the capacity of society to spread relevant objective information will play a major role in discrediting politics to a point where it is socially unacceptable.

No, those are not the same. One is end, the other means.

It is possible that society may never advance technologically to such a point. We may instead face diminishing returns. This reminded me of an article I read in the guardian:

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Max Levchin and Peter Thiel, co-founders of PayPal, said last year that innovation in the US was "somewhere between dire straits and dead". In his book Rise of the Creative Class (2002), Richard Florida of Toronto University argued that, while a time traveller from 1900 arriving in 1950 would be astonished by phones, planes, cars, electricity, fridges, radio, TV, penicillin and so on, a traveller from 1950 to the present would find little to amaze beyond the internet, PCs, mobile phones and, perhaps, how old technologies had become infinitely more reliable. The US economist Tyler Cowen made a similar point last year in The Great Stagnation: innovation slowed after the 1970s, he argued, and failed to create jobs. No development of the past 50 years, he could have added, bestowed benefits comparable to what washing machines and vacuum cleaners did to liberate women from drudgery."

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Furthermore, technology depends on market demand. It could be said that we already have the capacity to spread relevant objective information; but few people actually want it. But I see your general point that if we do advance technologically, then old needs such as injecting heroin would be substituted for better things.

That's more of a subpoint, because my main point is the silliness of talking about ancient problems in an unimaginably advanced world.

It like the silliness of Transformers—ridiculously advanced beings who can warp about the universe—still using swords and karate and shooting bullets (and, more importantly, being able to be damaged by bullets).